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Publication details [#52059]

Buzzanell, P.M., Rebecca J. Meisenbach, Meina Liu and Robyn V. Remke. 2008. “They Allowed”: Pentadic Mapping of Women's Maternity Leave Discourse as Organizational Rhetoric. Communication Monographs 75 (1) : 1–24.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

As pentadic mapping allows to distinguish discursive ways of empowerment and transformation, this study applies this methodology to nonmanagerial women's maternity leave discourses. The discourses mainly (re)generate an organization-as-scene pentad promoting organizational motives. But alternative pentads offer opportunities for feminist transformation.