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dc.contributor.authorWilkinson, Jane
dc.contributor.authorBlackmore, Jill
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:44:34Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:44:34Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2014-07-21T05:11:38Z
dc.identifier.issn09518398
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09518390701470669
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/61465
dc.description.abstractResearch on women's leadership has tended to focus upon detailed micro studies of individual women's identity formation or, alternatively, to conduct macro studies of its broader discursive constructions within society. Both approaches, although providing helpful understandings of the issues surrounding constructions of women's leadership, are inadequate. They fail to deal with the ongoing dilemma raised in both Cultural Studies and studies of discourse and identity, in relation to the negotiation of subjectivity and representation, that is, how broader societal discourses and media representations of women's leadership both inform, and are informed by, the lived experiences of individual women. In this article, a range of methodological approaches are outlined that were drawn upon in a study of a small group of senior women academics from ethnically and socioeconomically diverse origins. The authors examine how the women negotiated the frequent mismatch that arose between, on the one hand, societal discourses and media representations which often reproduced narrow and highly stereotypical accounts of women's leadership, and on the other hand, the individual women's subjective experiences of leadership which challenged such representations. It is contended that it is necessary to draw on a number of methodological perspectives in ways which trouble and unsettle homogenized versions of women's leadership in order to fully explicate more nuanced and complex ways of understanding how women's leadership identity is formed.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom123
dc.relation.ispartofpageto136
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
dc.relation.ispartofvolume21
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist Studies in Education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode139999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1303
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1608
dc.titleRe-presenting women and leadership: a methodological journey
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorWilkinson, Jane


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