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A Bricolage of Voices: Lessons Learned from Feminist Analyses in Educational Leadership

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This chapter is a collection of the findings of the studies of women I have engaged in over a decade and is my attempt to transform them into a story that is multidimensional and that moves beyond perspectives from different studies in isolation to reflecting upon them as a whole and considering what significance they hold together for advancing equity and social justice in the field of education and leadership practice.

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  1. Department of Educational Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1015 West Main Street, 842020, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA

    Whitney Sherman-Newcomb Ph.D.

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Sherman-Newcomb, W. (2014). A Bricolage of Voices: Lessons Learned from Feminist Analyses in Educational Leadership. In: Bogotch, I., Shields, C. (eds) International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6555-9_12

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