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Abstract
Gender and entrepreneurship research emphasize the masculine symbolic domain of entrepreneurial practices, but mostly neglects to analyze the gender complexity of doing entrepreneurship. This article examines entrepreneurial femininities as constructed and performed by Italian women. Theoretically, it employs postfeminism as a globalized discourse to offer a nuanced reading of the relationship between gender inequalities, entrepreneurship, and postfeminism. Through the analysis of 51 interviews with entrepreneurs, the paper explores how postfeminist ideals and discourses (the “super(wo)man” who is “free” to choose) are adapted to reflect the Italian cultural context. In doing so, it discusses how these women manage the coexistence of feminist (i.e., autonomy, empowerment) and anti-feminist (i.e., traditional division of household labour) expectations concerning women’s place in work and society.
期刊介绍:
The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (CJAS) is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, international quarterly that publishes manuscripts with a strong theoretical foundation. The journal welcomes literature reviews, quantitative and qualitative studies as well as conceptual pieces. CJAS is an ISI-listed journal that publishes papers in all key disciplines of business. CJAS is a particularly suitable home for manuscripts of a crossdisciplinary nature. All papers must state in an explicit and compelling way their unique contribution to advancing theory and/or practice in the administrative sciences.