Respectable Femininity and Intra-gender Regimes of Regulation: Experiences of Women Elite Leaders

摘要: This paper focuses upon how respectable femininity, an ideological construct reflecting a set of behavioural norms, plays out for women elite leaders in UK organizations within context competitive masculinity. Historically, femininity reflects norms from the 19th/20th centuries with expectations dressed modestly, showing self-restraint,sober and well mannered (Fernando Cohen, 2013) is achieved by meeting prevailing rules behaviour appearance (Skeggs, 1997). We extend emerging research into modern day Sri Lanka India (Radhakrishnan, 2009). Analysis highlights live paradox; negotiating inherent masculinity leader expected wider societal culture surfaces interplay between gendered role. offer dynamic regimes intra-gender regulation as self regulate other women’s bodies against constructions femininity.