"How becoming"

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dc.contributor.author	Ellehave, Camilla Funck	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:24:21Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:24:21Z
dc.date.issued	2005-01-17T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6679
dc.description.abstract	"How becoming!" we say (though often with a subtle ironic twist) when someone says or does something that we find is suitable or appropriate for him- or her or the situation in which he or she is. And while it may be old-fashioned, the phrase is also used when the clothes people are wearing make them look attractive. By pronouncing: ‘how becoming!’ we condone the appearance, the saying or the doing by making a reference to the appropriateness of somebody’s attire, words and deeds. However, the appropriateness is situated in that it is based on cultural conventions of a particular time and space, and simultaneously produces culturally accepted boundaries around what denotes culturally intelligible identities or subject positions (parallel to suggesting that something is "for the likes of you/us" versus "not for the likes of you/us" (Bourdieu, 1990:55-56)).	en_US
dc.format.extent	32 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;2004-006	en_US
dc.subject.other	kep	en_US
dc.title	"How becoming"	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt05jan17 miel	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Organisation og Arbejdssociologi	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	IOA	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	OIS	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656464002	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2004	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	Toward an Alternative Epistemology for Gender Research in Organizations	en_US