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The notion of women as either visible or invisible (but never ‘the norm’) within workplace space has been much debated within the context of research on gender and employment (Simpson and Lewis, 2005). In this chapter, I focus specifically on the erasure of the pregnant body from both workplace ‘space’ and management texts. Drawing on a netnographic study of pregnant workers, I show how the absence of the pregnant body in management scholarship is mirrored by the abjuration of the pregnant body at work.
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Gatrell, C. (2010). Pregnancy Centre Stage, Please: Contesting the Erasure of Pregnant Bodies from Workplace Space. In: Lewis, P., Simpson, R. (eds) Revealing and Concealing Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230285576_4
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