Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine accountability in a concrete historical context from the perspective of pragmatism and feminist theory. Design/methodology/approach – An archival case study of Hull House. Findings – Both pragmatism and feminist theory of Benhabib...

Purpose – Men and women are now being admitted to membership of the major UK professional accountancy bodies in approximately equal numbers. This trend has focused attention on the ways in which professional accountants combine careers and family life, particularly when women have children....

Purpose – Transforming gender research in accounting is possible, desirable, and promising: the past few decades have included prescient work and expansive theories. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the legacy of the 1992 special issue “Fe[men]ists' account” and urge new linkages...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate sexuality and sexual symbolism within the organisational culture of an accounting firm to explore how it is implicated in processes of gendering identities of employees within the firm. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a...

Uses the work of various women writers but most importantly the writing of Hélène Cixous, to question accounting′s role in society. Contends that accounting is masculine in the sense that it embraces all of the Western cultural male attributes. Given the masculine nature of accounting,...

Aims to evaluate critically the potential insights of the work of Hélène Cixous and related feminist writers for the analysis of accounting, including environmental and green accounting. Such a potential is highlighted in Cooper (1992). It is initially suggested that the feminist writings do...

Critiques article by Hammond and Oakes (1992). Emphasizes political importance of discussion of feminist empiricism for accountancy practitioners of both sexes.

Explores possibilities for an expanded critical feminist accounting in the context of feminist theory as developed in the important feminist literary criticism literature of the 1970s and 1980s. Develops a series of six theoretical platforms as potential starting points on which a feminist...