The post-re/productive: researching the menopause
Journal of Organizational Ethnography
ISSN: 2046-6749
Article publication date: 5 September 2018
Issue publication date: 26 September 2018
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of these experiences on the authors’ work and on the authors.
Design/methodology/approach
Following the publication of the report, the authors undertook collective, autoethnographic memory work that forms the empirical body of the argument. This is presented in 13 vignettes.
Findings
The authors found themselves continually traversing.
Research limitations/implications
The paper analyses the challenges of researching what is a universal experience for women yet also a taboo subject. It discusses the relevant implications for and possible effects on researchers who investigate such topics in organisation and work studies and elsewhere.
Originality/value
Menopause experiences as they connect to work are under-researched per se. The paper extends knowledge of how this research area is not only shaped by researchers but has an impact on those researchers.
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Acknowledgements
The report that the authors discuss in the paper was funded by the Government Equalities Office. The authors would also like to thank the three anonymous reviewers and the editors of the special issue for their constructive comments and support for the work.
Citation
Beck, V., Brewis, J. and Davies, A. (2018), "The post-re/productive: researching the menopause", Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 247-262. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-11-2017-0059
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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