Performing and Reforming Leaders: Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change

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Summary

Explores the issues inherent in critical and postmodern feminism in educational leadership.

Introduction : "living at the crossroads"	p. 1
Risky times for women leaders	p. 8
Restructuring education	p. 29
Gender restructuring : toxic, volatile, and greedy organizations	p. 53
"Lived contradictions" : gender, professionalism, and the crisis of trust	p. 77
Giving an account : performing work and working to perform	p. 103
Accidental leaders : acting out and acting up	p. 127
Managing the self : the consuming passions of performing and reforming leadership	p. 149
Caught between acts : middle managers mediating change up and down	p. 173
The managerial dilemma : the counterintuitive impulses of performativity and passion	p. 199
Progression and regression : managing diversity, equity, and equal opportunity	p. 221
Conclusion : separation, transition, and incorporation?	p. 245
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