Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a new generation of students and researchers.

Introduction The Body and Organization PART ONE: FUNCTIONS AND FLOWS What Shape Are We in? Organization Theory and the Organized Body - Karen Dale and Gibson Burrell Dangerous Fluids and the Organization-without-Organs - Stephen Linstead PART TWO: DISCOURSE AND REPRESENTATION Sociology Sensing the Body - Catherine Casey Revitalizing a Dissociative Discourse Manufacturing Bodies - Martin Parker Flesh, Organization, Cyborgs Situating Complexity - Hugo Letiche The Body (Nude) PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND REGULATION ′The Look of Love′ - Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler Gender and the Organization of Aesthetics Embodying Management - Ian Lennie The Body Topographies of Education Management - Craig Pritchard Bodies in a Landscape - Johanna Hofbauer On Office Design and Organization PART FOUR: SELF AND IDENTITY Exploring Embodiment - Joanna Brewis and John Sinclair Women, Biology and Work What Can a Body Do? - Janice Richardson Sexual Harassment and Legal Procedure Body Work - Deborah Kerfoot Estrangement, Disembodiment and the Organizational ′Other′

`...the eclectic range of chapters should provide new insights into embodied social practices within organizations from the literatures of cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, social theory and psychology.... The opportunity to work across discplinary boundaries that is celebrated here is perhaps the most interesting development in contemporary economic geography and adherents of this openness will find much to stimulate their imagination and further reading in the papers in this edited volume′ - Area