Work, Bodies and Boundaries: Talking sexual harassment in the New Economy

Brunner, LK; Dever, M

Work, Bodies and Boundaries: Talking sexual harassment in the New Economy

Brunner, LK Dever, M

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Citation:: Gender, Work and Organization, 2014, 21 (5), pp. 459 - 471
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Brunner, LK	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dever, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-8646	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Gender, Work and Organization, 2014, 21 (5), pp. 459 - 471	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0968-6673	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115941
dc.description.abstract	This article examines sexual harassment in the context of the new economy and highlights the manner in which the changing nature of work - and in particular the acknowledged rise of sexualized 'body work' - troubles conventional understandings of what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace and the means to address it. Using data from a small-scale qualitative study of service workers and professional employees, we explore the ways in which those definitions of sexual harassment now fail to match participants' accounts of their working lives. We examine sexual harassment in the context of the rise of service roles that require forms of increasingly sexualized 'body work' from employees, increased demands for workers to 'self-manage', and new flexible modes of employment that blur the boundaries between being 'on' and 'off' the job. We conclude that these 'new' modes of work may provide the conditions for the revival of 'old' stories which limit the capacity of individuals to recognize and label behaviours as 'sexual harassment'. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Gender, Work and Organization	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1111/gwao.12048	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Gender Studies	en_US
dc.title	Work, Bodies and Boundaries: Talking sexual harassment in the New Economy	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Teaching and Learning)
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pubs.issue	5	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	21	en_US

Abstract:

This article examines sexual harassment in the context of the new economy and highlights the manner in which the changing nature of work - and in particular the acknowledged rise of sexualized 'body work' - troubles conventional understandings of what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace and the means to address it. Using data from a small-scale qualitative study of service workers and professional employees, we explore the ways in which those definitions of sexual harassment now fail to match participants' accounts of their working lives. We examine sexual harassment in the context of the rise of service roles that require forms of increasingly sexualized 'body work' from employees, increased demands for workers to 'self-manage', and new flexible modes of employment that blur the boundaries between being 'on' and 'off' the job. We conclude that these 'new' modes of work may provide the conditions for the revival of 'old' stories which limit the capacity of individuals to recognize and label behaviours as 'sexual harassment'. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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