An analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Thompson interweaves three main threads: a cultural analysis of the development of the office; a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices; and a queer-theoretical discussion.
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An analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Thompson interweaves three main threads: a cultural analysis of the development of the office; a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices; and a queer-theoretical discussion.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xxi, 248pp, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in lightly rubbed dust-jacket. From the jacket cover, the author 'explores the construction of male sexuality in the business office by analyzing the boundaries of male friendship, the impact of corporatization and the feminization of office work upon straight male sexuality, and how the sex and gender anxiety evident in straight male responses to the postwar office world is replaced by a different sense of how identity may be constructed in relation to work. '