“Corporate Machismo: Gender Inequalities and Sexual Harassment in Corporate Offices in Postcolonial India and South Africa,” a virtual talk by Dr. Shannon Philip
Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Global Studies, and Anthropology, and Global Middle East Minor, Queer Studies Minor, and South Asian Studies Minor invite you and your students to a virtual talk by Dr. Shannon Philip, “Corporate Machismo: Gender Inequalities and Sexual Harassment in Corporate Offices in Postcolonial India and South Africa,” on November 4, 2025, from 11 am – 12.30 pm, PST.
Zoom ID: 777 004 5181
Zoom Passcode: 952826
is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality and Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. He is also a Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. His first book, entitled (Cambridge University Press, 2022), is a notable work.
Dr. Philip’s research focuses on how corporate offices are aspirational places to work in postcolonial countries like India and South Africa, where poverty and deep inequality continue to shape everyday gendered lives. The mushrooming of these corporate offices is relatively new in the Global South, but these workplaces now employ significant numbers of middle-class and upwardly mobile individuals, including men, women, and queer people, and they represent various notions of national “progress” and “development.” Building on queer-feminist sociological perspectives, Dr. Phillip critically explores the everyday gendered cultures of corporate spaces and focuses on the ways in which young men embody and create their corporate masculinities, as well as the many consequences these have for women and queer people in such corporate workspaces. Dr. Philip discusses how a politics of gender, class, race, caste, and sexuality intersects and transforms global inequalities to create a culture of ‘corporate machismo’ in the Global South, wherein gendered and class anxieties and aspirations relationally produce contemporary masculinities, femininities, and sexualities.
The Scholarly Intersections grant generously provides funding for this exhibit.
Sponsors: Departments of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, Anthropology, Global Studies, and Global Middle East Minor, Queer Studies Minor, and South Asian Studies Minor.
