Re-presenting women and leadership : a methodological journey Wilkinson, Jane and Blackmore, Jill 2008, Re-presenting women and leadership : a methodological journey, International journal of qualitative studies in education, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 123-136, doi: 10.1080/09518390701470669. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Re-presenting women and leadership : a methodological journey Author(s) Wilkinson, Jane Blackmore, Jill orcid.org/0000-0002-1049-2788 Journal name International journal of qualitative studies in education Volume number 21 Issue number 2 Start page 123 End page 136 Publisher Routledge Place of publication Abingdon, England Publication date 2008-04 ISSN 0951-8398 1366-5898 Summary Research 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. Language eng DOI 10.1080/09518390701470669 Field of Research 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2008, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30028240 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 11:23:39 EST Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 11:42:43 EST Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 11:43:33 EST Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 11:48:47 EST Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 11:49:55 EST Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 12:40:24 EST Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 15:38:29 EST Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 15:39:14 EST Sun, 11 Apr 2010, 13:58:31 EST Mon, 20 Feb 2012, 11:15:38 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 19:45:41 EST Thu, 15 Jan 2015, 13:55:57 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 08:32:36 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 15:03:29 EST Sat, 05 Sep 2020, 02:36:00 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 4 times in TR Web of Science Cited 8 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1229 Abstract Views, 200 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 07 Apr 2010, 11:23:35 EST by Gerard Brick