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Alice Belcher, "Gendered Company: Views of Corporate Governance at the Institute of Directors", Feminist Legal Studies V/1 (1997), 57-76: On 24 October 1995 the Institute of Directors held a conference on "Enterprise and Governance." This article uses the author's personal experience as a woman delegate to make connections between feminist theories and issues in corporate governance. The article has two principal parts. Firstly, there is a personal narrative told simply as a consciousness-raising exercise. Secondly, there is an analysis which sets recent developments in corporate legal theory (in particular) and the corporate governance debate (more generally) within the context of theories concerning gender construction. It opens with a quotation from the credo of the Institute of Directors: "The success of companies depends on the leadership and performance of directors." It concludes that the performance of the group of male directors at the "Enterprise and Governance" conference revealed patriarchal ideology exercising hegemonic control of the corporate culture and strongly resisting any challenges to its dominant position. Alice Belcher is Senior Lecturer in Law, Department of Law, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN.

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