In 2004, we were sitting in a conference room during the annual Management and
Organisation History Workshop, and suddenly realized that we were the only women …

More than a quarter century ago, a cluster of now-familiar scholars began raising questions
about the durable absence of women from synthetic narratives in American history and from …

Scholarly conversations about business, gender, feminism, and history remain limited. In this
afterword to the journal's special issue on how these themes intertwine, six experienced …

Purpose The author aims to walk beside the singular privileged class of White women's
suffrage feminist origin story to (re) construct plausible feminist fragmented threads as …

This article explores narrative in business history and business histories as a means of
understanding the absence and presence of women. We develop the argument that …

Through an examination of management textbooks, beginning in 1950 and continuing to
2012, the authors chart the socio-political and historical context upon which the …

Business history is not a field whose problematic I know, although these papers and one I
read by Angel Kwolek-Folland, which was given here last spring, provide a helpful …

Historians of businesswomen face more than a few challenges in uncovering women in
business. In order to nd them, they must rst nd the man. For example, William Wright had a …

The appearance of Kristin Williams' exquisitely produced, and provocatively written book
creates a true sense of excitement for all of us expecting feminist theorizing to continue as a …

Traditional approaches to business history have assumed masculine norms. As such,
women have either been ignored or treated as marginal. Though women's and gendered …