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How do organizations manage sexuality?

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How do organizations manage sexuality? How is sexuality managed, constructed, and maintained in the workplace? If individuals "do gender," (Zimmerman and West, 1987), do they also "do sexuality," particularly, in the workplace (Williams and Giuffre, 1994)? In this proposal, I argue that the classical works in organization theory are inadequate for understanding the maintenance and construction of sexuality in organizations. I will review present theories that attempt to understand gender and sexuality in organizations, and propose an empirical study to address these issues. My goal is to better understand the relationship between organizations and sexuality, and, in particular, how sexuality is managed in work organizations. If I will show that sexuality affects workplace interactions, we will be able to better appreciate a complex and elusive form of power, which has yet to be explored.