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 Leadership
Linda 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 Perspectives
Margaret Grogan

3. Considering (Irreconcilable?) Contradictions in Cross-Group Feminist Research
Michelle D. Young

4. The Linguistic Production of Genderlessness in the Superintendency
Jennifer Scott

5. Mourning Silence: Women Superintendents (and a Researcher) Rethink Speaking Up and Speaking Out
Linda 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 Leadership
Cynthia B. Dillard

7. Chicana Feminism and Educational Leadership
Sylvia Méndez-Morse

8. A Loving Epistemology: What I Hold Critical in My Life, Faith, and Profession
Julie C. Laible

9. Life Lessons and a Loving Epistemology: A Response to Julie Laible's Loving Epistemology
Colleen A. Capper

10. Research on Women and Administration: A Response to Julie Laible's Loving Epistemology
Michelle D. Young and Linda Skrla

11. The Emperor and Research on Women in School Leadership: A Response to Julie Laible's Loving Epistemology
Catherine Marshall

Part III: Reconceptualizing Applications of Feminist Research in Educational Leadership

12. In Our Mother's Voice: A Native Woman's Knowing of Leadership
Maenette K. P. AhNee-Benham

13. Normalized Femininity: Reconsidering Research on Women in the Superintendency
Linda Skrla

14. Troubling Policy Discourse: Gender, Constructions, and the Leadership Crisis
Michelle D. Young

Author Biographies

Index