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Professional career networks for women - a sisterhood 2.0?
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1713-1336
2016 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Women mobilising themselves in order to form a women’s collective and challenge the male norm is in no way news within the feminist or women’s movement, but how should such organising be understood when emerging in spheres deeply influenced by neoliberal ideology? During the last decade, professional career networks for women in business seem to have expanded in Sweden, pointing to the fact that women seeking status and resources no longer value their heterosocial relationships more than their relationships with other women. The question is, what is it exactly that is valued in these interrelationships, what is it that they expect to create or (re)produce? While previous research on women and networking have been focusing on the wider effects such organising has on gender equality, I am here interested in the specific female subjectivities and relationalities produced by such networking. While male homosociality clearly plays a prominent part in the formation of these networks – whether as an ideal that needs its female counterpart; or as an overt attempt of challenging such exclusionary relationships – they could also be viewed as a renewed feminist attempt of redirecting women’s orientation to women. But at the same time, they are also oriented to individual success, efficiency and commercialisation – commonly referred to as neoliberal rationality. By presenting some glimpses into the empirical material consisting of interviews with founding members, the framing of these networks as something “new” is analysed through the historical trajectory of women’s organising, and put in relation to contemporary undercurrents of neoliberal ideology and post-feminist imagery. The paper is a part of my on going PhD-research, and is a work in progress.

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2016.
Keywords [en]
affect, working life, gender, feminism, organization, mobilisation
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Gender Studies
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Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-84130OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-84130DiVA, id: diva2:1450116
Conference
g16 - Gränser, mobilitet och mobilisering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, November 23-25, 2016
Available from: 2020-07-01 Created: 2020-07-01 Last updated: 2020-07-31Bibliographically approved

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