Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational Leadership

RECONSIDERING FEMINIST RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1. Introduction: Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational Leadership by Linda Skrla and Michelle D. Young......Page 12
Part I: Troubling Feminist Research Methods in Educational Leadership......Page 18
2. Laying the Groundwork for a Reconception of the Superintendency from Feminist Postmodern Perspectives by Margaret Grogan......Page 20
3. Considering (Irreconcilable?) Contradictions in Cross-Group Feminist Research by Michelle D. Young......Page 46
4. The Linguistic Production of Genderlessness in the Superintendency by Jennifer Scott......Page 92
5. Mourning Silence: Women Superintendents (and a Researcher) Rethink Speaking Up and Speaking Out by Linda Skrla......Page 114
Part II: Reconsidering Feminist Epistemologies in Educational Leadership......Page 140
6. The Substance of Things Hoped for, the Evidence of Things Not Seen: Examining an Endarkened Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research and Leadership by Cynthia B. Dillard......Page 142
7. Chicana Feminism and Educational Leadership by Sylvia Méndez-Morse......Page 172
8. A Loving Epistemology: What I Hold Critical in My Life, Faith, and Profession by Julie C. Laible......Page 190
9. Life Lessons and a Loving Epistemology: A Response to Julie Laible’s Loving Epistemology by Colleen A. Capper......Page 204
10. Research on Women and Administration: A Response to Julie Laible’s Loving Epistemology by Michelle D. Young and Linda Skrla......Page 212
11. The Emperor and Research on Women in School Leadership: A Response to Julie Laible’s Loving Epistemology by Catherine Marshall......Page 222
Part III: Reconceptualizing Applications of Feminist Research in Educational Leadership......Page 232
12. In Our Mother’s Voice: A Native Woman’s Knowing of Leadership by Maenette K. P. AhNee-Benham......Page 234
13. Normalized Femininity: Reconsidering Research on Women in the Superintendency by Linda Skrla......Page 258
14. Troubling Policy Discourse: Gender, Constructions, and the Leadership Crisis by Michelle D. Young......Page 276
Author Biographies......Page 310
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S......Page 315
Z......Page 316