Queer Business

<p>In this modern day and age it is surprising that managerialist perspectives practices and ideas are colonising the study of sexualities in organisation. </p><p>A timely intervention into the contemporary vitality of queer theories <i>Queer Business</i> is an innovative book length exploration of how queer theory has been used in management and organisation studies with the aim of broadening and deepening queer scholarship in this discipline. Through both scholarly and original empirical research Rumens also seeks to demonstrate how queer theory has been mobilised in MOS and how it might be advanced in a field where it has yet to become exhausted and clichéd. In particular this volume shows how scholars can use queer theory concepts to explore how lesbian gay bisexual and transgender sexualities and genders are understood and experienced in the workplace.</p><p>Challenging notions of LGBT+ inclusivity in the workplace through concepts such as queer liberalism and homonormativity <i>Queer Business</i> will appeal to scholars undergraduate and postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as management and organisation studies queer studies gender studies sexuality studies organisational theory and cultural studies.</p>