Narratives of intersectional identities : women leaders in U.S. higher education settings / Jennifer C. Murphy.

Format:

• Book
• Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

• Murphy, Jennifer C., author.

Contributor:

• Ravitch, Sharon M., degree supervisor.
• University of Pennsylvania. Department of Higher Education Management, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Gender studies.
• Educational leadership.
• Higher education management--Penn dissertations.
• Penn dissertations--Higher education management.

Local Subjects:

• Gender studies.
• Educational leadership.
• Higher education management--Penn dissertations.
• Penn dissertations--Higher education management.

Genre:

• Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 83-03A.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Summary:

There is a noticeable gap in the literature on women leaders, their intersectional identities, and their implications and impact to academia. Research in this area of leadership has primarily focused on topics such as gender-based discrimination and barriers faced by women in the workplace. This study focuses on the interplay of individual, structural, and institutional (Crenshaw, 2017, 2019) structures, which are centralized and explored with participants in this study; this framework guides the narratives shared herein. It explored women's lived experiences-as told in their own words-to better understand how their intersectional identities contributed to their leadership roles in academia. Multiple aspects of social identity-including race, social class, religion, and sexual identity-shaped women's experiences related to marginalization and oppression in the workplace. Garnering a demographically wider, more in-depth analysis of these women's experiences cultivated a better understanding of how gender-based norms and social constructions shift over time and the extent to which (and how) they create a diffusion effect over time as new generations enter the workplace. These leaders' embodied experiences were carefully examined through a critical intersectional feminist lens to explore layers of oppression and marginalization in their roles as leaders. Through a qualitative, narrative research design, phenomena were explored through intact broader structures and systems as women leaders narrated their lived experiences. This approach illuminated participants' lived experiences, self-narratives, and perspectives on emergent themes of barriers, obstacles, culture, power dynamics, and their own motivations to succeed. .

Notes:

• Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.
• Advisors: Ravitch, Sharon M.; Committee members: Eynon, Diane; Miles, Sandra.
• Department: Higher Education Management.
• Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798538112227

Access Restriction:

• Restricted for use by site license.
• This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.