Blackmore, Jill

Troubling women : feminism, leadership, and educational change / Jill Blackmore. - xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm. - Feminist educational thinking . - Feminist educational thinking. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index.

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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Feminism and education--Australia
Women school administrators--Australia
School management and organization--Social aspects--Australia
Educational change--Australia
Educational leadership--Australia

LC197. / B53 1999

371.20082