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Margins and centres : gender and feminism in business history

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Date
18/01/2023
Author
Dean, Hannah
Perriton, Linda
Taylor, Scott
Yeager, Mary
Keywords
Business history
Gender
Feminism
Margin
Centre
Paradigm
HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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Abstract
Gender and feminism are often described as being marginal to the preoccupations that define the core of business history. Here we explore three possibilities that this framing suggests: first, that scholars of gender and feminism in business history are responsible for moving their work from margins to centre, becoming part of and perhaps changing the mainstream; second, that those working in the centre ought to expand their horizons to become more cognisant of feminism and gender; and third, the interpretation that we examine in detail here, that all working on historical analysis of business can rethink the distinction between the construction of core and periphery. This latter approach means actively challenging the maintenance of the centre/margin metaphor and its effects. We argue that this third approach would benefit all working in the field. Envisioning a more heterodox business history enables critical analysis of white, male, Anglocentric norms and values that have framed historical thinking in ways that exclude and produce partial, unsatisfactory, histories.
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Dean , H , Perriton , L , Taylor , S & Yeager , M 2023 , ' Margins and centres : gender and feminism in business history ' , Business History , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2125957
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Business History
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2125957
ISSN
0007-6791
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-nonCommercial-noDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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This work emerged partly as a result of British Academy funding for the first author, pf150111 ‘The journey of female entrepreneurs in Yorkshire: An oral history study’.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26769

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