MULTIGENDERING PA: ANTI-ADMINISTRATION, ANTI-BLUES.

There is only one sex left, `we are all women in spirit.' (Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, 1689-1755) The modernist administrative ethos does not permit space.for a radical reconstruction of gender--restricting and thereby oppressing the articulation of a radical feminist project in public administration. This paper addresses gender discourse in anti-administration, suggesting that multigendering is one remedy for the pervasive melancholy that afflicts women, men and organizations the oppressed and the oppressors, alike. The feminist experience and perspective, largely absent in public administration discourse, brings radically different and new insights to old problems in theory and praxis. The paper concludes with a plea.for a "new enlightenment" that resists the "urges to power" which undermine prospects for anti-administration and anti-melancholy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]