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Women Change Everything

Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: This address urges a more self-aware business history. It uses autobiographical details and select biographies of literary figures and women professionals to shed light on the subtle and not-so subtle inequalities associated with business and capitalism. The deliberate tease in the title—WOMEN CHANGE EVERYTHING—is intended to convey the power of word placement to change interpretive meaning and significance, and the power of history to modify understanding. Modifiers are key to an appreciation of the constraints and opportunities that have framed the lives and experiences of women in economies and societies. Even footnotes function in this address as modifiers, uncannily revealing sources of authorial intent and inspiration and throwing light on literary and historiographical hierarchies.
DOI: 10.1017/eso.2015.72
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: Bucknell University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Temple University, Royal Anthropological Institute, University of Oxford, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
OpenAlex ID: W4250159906
FWCI: 4.402
Cites: 85
Cited by: 11
Related to: 10