Focusing on gender and ways of understanding resistance, this book attends to the current debate of compliance versus resistance, offering progressive understandings and highlighting strategies needed for organizational survival.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Robyn Thomas, Albert J.Mills, Jean Helms Mills; Part 1 Constructing selves; Chapter 2 Refusing to be 'me', Joanna Brewis; Chapter 3 Personal resistance through persistence to organizational resistance through distance, Jeff Hearn; Part 2 Resisting subjects in context; Chapter 4 Resistance to diversity initiatives, Penny Dick; Chapter 5 Gendering new managerialism, Kirstie S.Ball; Chapter 6 Gendered identities and micro-political resistance in public service organizations, Annette Davies, Robyn Thomas; Chapter 7 Reforming managerialism?, John Chandler, Jim Barry, Elisabeth Berg; Chapter 8 When plausibility fails, Albert J.Mills, Jean Helms Mills; Chapter 9 Resistance to organizational culture change, Deborah M.Shepherd, Judith K.Pringle; Part 3 Questioning the politics in micro-political resistance; Chapter 10 Webs of resistance in transnational call centres, Kiran Mirchandani; Chapter 11 The bearable lightness of being, Gillian Ursell;