Foreword
Patricia A. Schmuck
Preface
Introduction. "Scattered All over the Road"
C. Cryss Brunner
PART ONE
"Crawling through the Window of a Dream" Surveying the Terrain
Introduction
C. Cryss Brunner
1. "Turning out the Ladies": Elected Women Superintendents and the Push for the Appointive System, 1900-1935
Jackie M. Blount
2. Women and the Superintendency: What Do We Really Know?
Marilyn Tallerico
PART TWO
"Do It Anyway" Gaining Access
Introduction
C. Cryss Brunner
3. The Role of Search Consultants in the Career Paths of Women Superintendents
Estelle Kamler and Charol Shakeshaft
4. Power, Gender, and Superintendent Seletion
C. Cryss Brunner
5. Climbing Hills and Mountains: Black Females Making It to the Superintendency
Judy A. Alston
6. Seeking and Selecting Hispanic Female Superintendents
Flora Ida Ortiz
PART THREE
"Small but Brilliant" Living the Life
Introduction
C. Cryss Brunner
7. The First Years: What Should a Female Superintendent Know Beforehand?
Barbara Nelson Pavan
8. Redefinition of Self: Mexican-American Women Becoming Superintendents
Sylvia E. Mendez-Morse
9. Getting inside History Against All Odds: African-American Women School Superintendents
Barbara L. Jackson
10. Dancing in Red Shoes: Why Women Leave the Superintendency
Cynthia Beekley
PART FOUR
"One's True Song" Authenticating Research
Introduction
C. Cryss Brunner
11. "Back Talk" from a Woman Superintendent: Just How Useful Is Research?
C. Cryss Brunner
12. A Feminist Poststructuralist Account of Collaboration: A Model for the Superintendency
Margaret Grogan
13. Thoughtful Practice: Responding with Questions from the Superintendency
Debra Jackson
Epilogue
Susan Chase
Contributors
Index