GENDER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICE
DISCIPLINARY POWER, BIOPOWER AND (RE)EXISTENCES OF BLACK WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN MALE-DOMINATED SEGMENTS
Keywords:
Power, Resistance, Organizational Practice, Entrepreneurship, Black women entrepreneursAbstract
Normalizing discourses on entrepreneurship have positioned this phenomenon as something unquestionably positive and neutral regarding gender. Seen as an alternative to the economic slowdown, especially for women, entrepreneurship tends to be understood through a linear logic, disregarding aspects related to barriers, challenges and possibilities of alternative understanding of the topic, based on the subjectivities of those who undertake and the procedural look focused on what it means to undertake. Thus, this article aims to analyze the power relations and possibilities of resistance that exist in the speeches of black women who undertake business in male-dominated segments. For this, 14 women belonging to a social technology and innovation institute in Greater Vitória, Espírito Santo, were interviewed. The data produced were subjected to discourse analysis proposed by Michel Foucault. The results demonstrated the existence of disciplinary power and biopower that govern the ways these women act in entrepreneurship. However, it was also possible to identify possibilities for resistance, through resistance as re-existence as a woman and as an entrepreneur. It is important to highlight the influence of racial aspects associated with subjectivities on what it means for these women to undertake.
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