TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter takes the form of an open feminist letter, a complaint and a manifesto presented to the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Academy. It is posted with urgency at a time when Patriarchy is resurging across the globe. My complaint is against the misogyny and the moral injury done to all of us and to our participants through our detached, disembodied, non-relation, pseudo-objective, masculine ways of becoming and being CMS scholars. Drawing on the thinking of Hélène Cixous, I offer five gifts as strategies to break with the masculine reckoning and open up our scholarship to féminine multiplicity and generativity: loving not knowing, return to our material bodies, rightsizing theory, knowledge made flesh-to-flesh and women’s writing. I visit, and suggest our scholarship will benefit from visiting, Cixous’s School of the Dead and her School of Dreams. I advocate for social theatre/performative auto/ethnography as a way to effect change in organisations. Finally, I present a manifesto for women’s writing that can help take our scholarship ‘home’ and contribute to the creation of flourishing organisations. This letter is a Call to Arms.
VL  - 4
SN  - 978-1-83867-337-6, 978-1-83867-338-3/2046-6072
DO  - 10.1108/S2046-607220200000004006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-607220200000004006
AU  - Beavan Katie
ED  - Alison Pullen
ED  - Jenny Helin
ED  - Nancy Harding
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - Breaking with the masculine reckoning: An open letter to the Critical Management Studies Academy
T2  - Writing Differently
T3  - Dialogues in Critical Management Studies
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 91
EP  - 112
Y2  - 2024/05/05
ER  -