TY - JOUR
T1 - Show Them a Good Time
T2 - Organizing the Intersections of Sexual Violence
AU - Harris, Kate Lockwood
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Engaging with calls from organization scholars, I analyze the communicative mechanisms through which individuals, rather than organizations, become the focus in discussions of violence. Reading a legal decision regarding rape at the University of Colorado, I argue that organizational conceptualizations of sexual violence are marginalized as (a) noncommunicative, container models of organization are prioritized and (b) violence is understood as an action rather than one element in a system of meaning. On the basis of this analysis, I offer a feminist rereading of the case that identifies the organization as a participant in sexual violence. To recognize not only individual, but also organizational sexual violence, I suggest that scholars problematize the racialized gendering of organization. Further, I show that a communicative approach that articulates complex relationships between meaning and action is central for highlighting the intersectionality of sexual violence and for unmooring sexually violent agency from individuated physicality.
AB - Engaging with calls from organization scholars, I analyze the communicative mechanisms through which individuals, rather than organizations, become the focus in discussions of violence. Reading a legal decision regarding rape at the University of Colorado, I argue that organizational conceptualizations of sexual violence are marginalized as (a) noncommunicative, container models of organization are prioritized and (b) violence is understood as an action rather than one element in a system of meaning. On the basis of this analysis, I offer a feminist rereading of the case that identifies the organization as a participant in sexual violence. To recognize not only individual, but also organizational sexual violence, I suggest that scholars problematize the racialized gendering of organization. Further, I show that a communicative approach that articulates complex relationships between meaning and action is central for highlighting the intersectionality of sexual violence and for unmooring sexually violent agency from individuated physicality.
KW - Title IX
KW - feminism
KW - intersectionality
KW - masculinity
KW - organizational violence
KW - race
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U2 - 10.1177/0893318913506519
DO - 10.1177/0893318913506519
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84886503622
SN - 0893-3189
VL - 27
SP - 568
EP - 595
JO - Management Communication Quarterly
JF - Management Communication Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -