The post-re/productive: researching the menopause Available to Purchase

Vanessa Beck is Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol. Her research has focussed on the implications of managing older workers, the availability of training opportunities for older workers and the use of performance management to “manage out” older workers. She has also researched unemployment and redundancy, including those not in education, employment or training (NEET) and individuals with multiple and complex barriers to employment. Her work has been published in journals including Work, Employment and Society, Industrial Relations Journal, Management Learning, and Employee Relations.

Jo Brewis is Professor at the Open University Business School. She co-edits the journal Culture and Organization and has published there as well as in other outlets like Gender, Work and Organization and Organization Studies. Jo’s research interests include the intersections between gender, the body, sexuality, identity, sexuality, emotion and processes of organising; and academic practices in organisation studies. The paper at hand straddles both foci. Jo spends a lot of her spare time following the band British Sea Power around the UK and waiting impatiently for the next season of Orange is the New Black to be released.

Andrea Davies is Associate Professor at the University of Leicester School of Business. Her research has focussed on consumption, with particular interests in retail technologies and retail settings, family and motherhood, empowerment and consumer ambivalence, cross-cultural consumption, oral history, and posthumanism and psychoanalytic theory as it re-views market spaces. She is co-editor of Consumer Research Methods (Volumes I–IV), the Sage Major Works Series (2013) and was co-editor of the Journal of Consumer Behaviour (2006–2009). Her work is published in journals including Environment and Planning A, Marketing Theory, Journal of Consumer Behaviour and Consumption, Markets and Culture.