(Re)figuring accounting and maternal bodies: The gendered embodiment of accounting professionals

TY - JOUR

T1 - (Re)figuring accounting and maternal bodies: The gendered embodiment of accounting professionals

AU - Haynes, Kathryn

PY - 2008/5

Y1 - 2008/5

N2 - This paper examines the relationship between the body and the self for women accounting professionals. It explores how they come to embody the identity of accountant and what happens when forms of organizational and professional embodiment coincide with other forms of gendered embodied self, such as that experienced during pregnancy and in early motherhood. These forms of embodiment can be seen simultaneously both as a mechanism of social control, and as a form of self-expression and empowerment for women. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

AB - This paper examines the relationship between the body and the self for women accounting professionals. It explores how they come to embody the identity of accountant and what happens when forms of organizational and professional embodiment coincide with other forms of gendered embodied self, such as that experienced during pregnancy and in early motherhood. These forms of embodiment can be seen simultaneously both as a mechanism of social control, and as a form of self-expression and empowerment for women. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

KW - FIRMS

KW - WORK

KW - TIME

KW - MOTHERHOOD

KW - TRANSITION

KW - HERSTORY

KW - SELVES

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=41149118635&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.aos.2007.04.003

DO - 10.1016/j.aos.2007.04.003

M3 - Article

SN - 0361-3682

VL - 33

SP - 328

EP - 348

JO - Accounting Organizations and Society

JF - Accounting Organizations and Society

IS - 4-5

ER -