sphere, sexuality as a power instrument, and women's subordination. But while partly helping to preserve organizational structure, sexuality and emotions are used also as ways of resisting the organization's control over the individual. The novels thus reveal the ambiguity of sexuality and more generally of emotions. People strive to be loved and love, and are driven by fear, vanity and longing, at work and at home. The private and the public life are integrated in people's lives, although the public sphere also provides a place to rest from personal anxieties.

Author Keywords: Emotions; fiction; gender studies; love ; management literature; motivation; organizational action; power; resistance; sexuality