Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational Leadership

Michelle D. Young is Executive Director of the University Council for Educational Administration at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Linda Skrla is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at Texas A&M University and coauthor (with David A. Erlandson, Eileen M. Reed, and Alfred P. Wilson) of The Emerging Principalship.

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational LeadershipLinda Skrla and Michelle D. Young Part I: Troubling Feminist Research Methods in Educational Leadership 2. Laying the Groundwork for a Reconception of the Superintendency from Feminist Postmodern PerspectivesMargaret Grogan 3. Considering (Irreconcilable?) Contradictions in Cross-Group Feminist ResearchMichelle D. Young 4. The Linguistic Production of Genderlessness in the SuperintendencyJennifer Scott 5. Mourning Silence: Women Superintendents (and a Researcher) Rethink Speaking Up and Speaking OutLinda Skrla Part II: Reconsidering Feminist Epistemologies in Educational Leadership 6. The Substance of Things Hoped for, the Evidence of Things Not Seen: Examining an Endarkened Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research and LeadershipCynthia B. Dillard 7. Chicana Feminism and Educational LeadershipSylvia Méndez-Morse 8. A Loving Epistemology: What I Hold Critical in My Life, Faith, and ProfessionJulie C. Laible 9. Life Lessons and a Loving Epistemology: A Response to Julie Laible's Loving EpistemologyColleen A. Capper 10. Research on Women and Administration: A Response to Julie Laible's Loving EpistemologyMichelle D. Young and Linda Skrla 11. The Emperor and Research on Women in School Leadership: A Response to Julie Laible's Loving EpistemologyCatherine Marshall Part III: Reconceptualizing Applications of Feminist Research in Educational Leadership 12. In Our Mother's Voice: A Native Woman's Knowing of LeadershipMaenette K. P. AhNee-Benham 13. Normalized Femininity: Reconsidering Research on Women in the SuperintendencyLinda Skrla 14. Troubling Policy Discourse: Gender, Constructions, and the Leadership CrisisMichelle D. Young Author Biographies Index

"This book fills an important gap in the literature by bringing people of color and women's voices into the conversations about the knowledge base, research methods, and practice in the field. Its greatest strengths are that it challenges and illustrates alternatives to predominant thinking about understanding, doing, and sharing research in educational leadership, and does so with optimism about prospects for change and improvement." — Marilyn Tallerico, author of Accessing the Superintendency: The Unwritten Rules