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Troubling women : feminism, leadership, and educational change

Jill Blackmore

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Introduction: troubling women - new leaders for hard times? Part 1 Disciplinary technologies: the gendering of educational work power/knowledge at work in educational administration gendered lives - becoming educators, feminists and leaders. Part 2 Disruptive voices: gender equity policy - where to go from here? working in a system not of your own making fixing the feminist gaze upon masculinity. Part 3 Risky business: doing emotional management work - gender, markets and self managing schools embodied authority - the disciplined but disruptive powerful woman dealing with difference. Part 4 Conclusion: a feminist postmasculinist politics of educational leadership.

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Introduction: troubling women - new leaders for hard times? Part 1 Disciplinary technologies: the gendering of educational work power/knowledge at work in educational administration gendered lives - becoming educators, feminists and leaders. Part 2 Disruptive voices: gender equity policy - where to go from here? working in a system not of your own making fixing the feminist gaze upon masculinity. Part 3 Risky business: doing emotional management work - gender, markets and self managing schools embodied authority - the disciplined but disruptive powerful woman dealing with difference. Part 4 Conclusion: a feminist postmasculinist politics of educational leadership.

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Introduction: troubling women - new leaders for hard times? Part 1 Disciplinary technologies: the gendering of educational work power/knowledge at work in educational administration gendered lives - becoming educators, feminists and leaders. Part 2 Disruptive voices: gender equity policy - where to go from here? working in a system not of your own making fixing the feminist gaze upon masculinity. Part 3 Risky business: doing emotional management work - gender, markets and self managing schools embodied authority - the disciplined but disruptive powerful woman dealing with difference. Part 4 Conclusion: a feminist postmasculinist politics of educational leadership.

Key concepts: Masculinity, Gender studies, Embodied cognition, Discipline, Feminism, Politics, Power (physics), Sociology

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