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When compared with domestic business operations, multinational corporations include fewer women at managerial levels in their foreign subsidiaries. Debates have ensued regarding whether women's absences from these positions are due to lack of the particular managerial abilities required for international assignments. In this article we argue that too much has been assumed about the sociopsychological requirements for international management, both for men and women. Through critical re-analyses of data from a previous study we contend that understanding `women's advantages/disadvantages' in international management requires understanding women's structural positions in the First World-Third World political economy.

This is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. It examines the fortunes of the term deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of the leading commentators on Derrida's texts.

This essay explores Leo Bersani's relationship to deconstruction, arguing that although his thinking about language and signification is indebted to the deconstructive tradition, he ultimately departs from this tradition in his structural understanding of desire qua habit. A close reading of a sentence from Homos forms the refrain for a discussion of the ontology of sexuality, the exclusionary nature of desire, resistances of self and world, and the nature of habit.

In the later part of the 20th century, many British people believed that Britain had entered classless society and turned into a nation of middle class, and an important way of realizing such a middle-class society was to restore traditional Victorian family values. However, Doris Lessing's novel "The Fifth Child" proves the bankruptcy of the belief.