Tony Brewer asks: Can anyone show me a recent paper in an A list journal  
in economics (or any respectable journal, come to that) which identifies  
rationality with masculinity?   
  
Are you kidding? Or maybe you are confusing the critique of the  
identification with the endorsement of it?  
  
The Politics of Emotion: A Feminist Reading of Bounded Rationality  
Dennis K. Mumby; Linda L. Putnam  
The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Jul., 1992), pp.  
465-486.  
  
Stable URL:  
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0363-7425%28199207%2917%3A3%3C465%3ATPOEAF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
  
Abstract  
A poststructuralist feminist reading of Herbert Simon's construct,  
bounded rationality, is presented in this article. Following from this  
notion, it is maintained that even though bounded rationality provides a  
modified critique of "pure" rationality, this concept is grounded in  
male-centered assumptions that exclude alternative modes of organizing.  
Through a feminist deconstructive process, bounded emotionality is  
introduced as an alternative organizing construct. The premises,  
conditions of organizing, and implications of this alternative are  
discussed and illustrated. Finally, theorists are urged to move beyond  
the traditional dichotomy between rationality and emotionality, in order  
to question the assumptions that underlie traditional constructs and to  
create new grounds for future theoretical activities.  
  
  
Mathew Forstater