Lost and Found
Gender, Narrative, Miss Burchfield, and the Construction of Knowledge in Public Administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12450299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Delysa Burnier (0000-0003-1357-3564, Ohio University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 444-464 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administrative Theory & Praxis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-1806 • E-ISSN: 1949-0461 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10841806.2006.11029545 |
| OpenAlex | W2242660662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper uses feminist narrative analytics to examine Mary Ellen Guy's (2000) life history of Miss Burchfield. Burchfield played a key, but largely invisible, role in the early development of American public administration. This paper examines how Guy constructed the Burchfield narrative and the different ways it might be read (e.g., insider/outsider, visible/invisible, gender success/gender victim, public administration founder/public administration staffer). A systematic examination of her narrative can illuminate both the gender relations surrounding public administration's disciplinary beginnings and how that past moment speaks to the present moment in public administration. Specifically, Burchfield's story speaks to the problem of gender invisibility that remains in public administration today. Guy's research stands as an exemplar of feminist life history that contributes to the "emerging gender narrative" within public administration (White, 1999)
Administration (probate law · Art · Discipline · Insider · Invisibility · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · History · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Policy and Administration Research
Reading autobiography
Fields of play
Handbook of qualitative research
Disappearing Acts
Mary Parker Follett and the Question of Gender
But Enough About Me
Risking Who One Is
Unfreezing the Progressive Era
The "Praxis" Side of the Equation
Women in Public Administration
Public Administration Review
Introductory Public Administration Textbooks
Women, Progressive-Era Reform, and Scientific Management
Creating Reality Through Administrative Practice
Revealing the Feminist in Mary Parker Follett
The Odyssey of Senior Public Service
The Amazing Miss Burchfield
Ambiguous Empowerment
Biography as historical sociology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |