No Woman is Like a Man (in Academia): The Masculine Symbolic Order and the Unwanted Female Body

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1251-1275

  Fotaki, Marianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abjection; absence; academia; Irigaray; Kristeva; language; symbolic order; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884146575     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613483658     Document Type: Article

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