This text addresses a wide range of theoretical ideas and methodologies in the examination of gendered organisations. The need to examine men in relation to family, law and society is growing, and this book extends this interrogation to work and

Stephen Whitehead Keele University, Roy Moodley Sheffield University

Part 1: Women in the management arena; women managers in higher education; giving the right message - why women tend not to apply for senior positions; how does it feel? - women managers, embodiment and changing public sector cultures. Part 2: Unmasking men and management; men as a management problem; power and resistance in the academy - the case of women academic managers; engendering labour - women cleaning up the house?; men, managers and management - the case of higher education; shifting masculinities - gender and restructuring in a local authority; making sense of men's experiences in public sector organizatons; masculinity, new managerial discourses and the problematics of intimacy in organizations.