The Price of "Passing": A Lesbian Perspective on Authenticity in Organizations.

Spradlin, Anna L.

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ERIC Number: EJ563767

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Publication Date: 1998

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The Price of "Passing": A Lesbian Perspective on Authenticity in Organizations.

Spradlin, Anna L.

Management Communication Quarterly, v11 n4 p598-605 May 1998

Offers six personal "passing" strategies the author uses to "pass" for heterosexual in organizational settings: distancing, dissociating, dodging, distracting, denying, and deceiving. Suggests that the price for passing was the prevention of authentic, healthy relationship development within the workplace. (PA)

Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Homophobia, Interpersonal Relationship, Lesbianism, Organizational Communication

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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