Creating reality through administrative practice :
By: McSwite, O. C
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, September 2004Subject(s): Aspecto Histórico | Política | Feminismo | Gênero | Discriminação | LiberalismoAdministration & Society 36, 4, p. 406-426Abstract: Camilla Stiver´s book, 'Bureau Men, Settlement Women', is being misread as a feminist political tract and overloocked as the resource that it is for the field of public administration. A review ofthe current literature of feminism reveals that Stivear´s work, a historical study of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, cannot be described by any version of feminist theory; Rather, her central concern is how the male-dominated Bureau movement pushed the field away from the model of the city as "home" -- wich developed in the women´s reform movement -- and toward the idea of the city as "business". A Lacanian psychoanalytic reading reveals a critical implication of her research: The women´s movement carried the potential to bring a balance to public agency discourse, one adequate for the new realities that the social problems of the day required. The administration as business model denies the achievement of this balance
Camilla Stiver´s book, 'Bureau Men, Settlement Women', is being misread as a feminist political tract and overloocked as the resource that it is for the field of public administration. A review ofthe current literature of feminism reveals that Stivear´s work, a historical study of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, cannot be described by any version of feminist theory; Rather, her central concern is how the male-dominated Bureau movement pushed the field away from the model of the city as "home" -- wich developed in the women´s reform movement -- and toward the idea of the city as "business". A Lacanian psychoanalytic reading reveals a critical implication of her research: The women´s movement carried the potential to bring a balance to public agency discourse, one adequate for the new realities that the social problems of the day required. The administration as business model denies the achievement of this balance
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