Commonalities, conflicts and contradictions in organizational masculinities: exploring the gendered genesis of the Challenger disaster. (Space Shuttle Challenger)

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: Maier, Mark; Messerschmidt, James W. | Copyright information

The events surrounding the 1986 decision to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger are reconstructed to illustrate how multiple masculinities, particularly between and among managers and engineers, contributed to that organizational crisis. An analysis of gendered power relations-especially among men - reveals how the construction of particular forms of "masculinities," and the ways in which they are reproduced, rationalized or resisted, vary as a result of contextual changes. Commonalities and ...

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