Writing through the labyrinth
Using l’ecriture feminine in leadership studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12883264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Briony Lipton (0000-0002-9808-6046, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-80 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leadership (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1742-7150 • E-ISSN: 1742-7169 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1742715015619969 |
| OpenAlex | W2341678718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 51 |
Metaphors enable us to understand organisations in distinctive ways and explain the paucity of women in leadership positions, and yet, when gender discrimination is addressed via metaphor, women’s responses, resistance and agency are rarely included in such analyses. In this article, I employ a narrative writing practice inspired by the work of Hélène Cixous as a way of exploring how we might research and write differently in leadership studies. Cixous invites women to reclaim their sexuality and subjectivity through a feminine mode of women’s writing and what she defines as l'ecriture feminine can be interpreted as a liberating bodily practice that aims to release women’s repressed creative agency and transform phallogocentric structures. Using the Greek mythology of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth, this article weaves together these seemingly disparate concepts of myth, metaphor and feminist writing practices with leadership discourse to explore the ways in which academic women experience the university organisation as a labyrinth, how they navigate pathways to promotion and practice leadership. This creative analytic operates as a metanarrative that offers new ways of researching and writing leadership studies from the body, and reveals how myths continue to influence present experiences and structures in unexpected ways
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Metanarrative · Metaphor · Mythology · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Artistic and Creative Research · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy
The Madwoman in the Attic
Fields of play
Willful Subjects
Organising Feminisms
Performing and Reforming Leaders
No Woman is Like a Man (in Academia)
Writing Organization as Gendered Practice
Lost leaders
Of Woman Born
Is the ‘F’-word still dirty? A past, present and future of/for feminist and gender studies in Organization
Gender practices in the construction of academic excellence
Travelling towards a mirage? Gender, leadership and higher education
Placing self
Flawed from the “Get-Go”
The impossibility of the ‘true self’ of authentic leadership
A material dean
Slaying the Seven‐Headed Dragon
Luce Irigaray, Sexual Difference and Theorizing Leaders and Leadership
Feminist Educational Leadership
The rules of the game
Gender symbols and urban landscapes
Living documents
Greek Mythology
Doing Diversity Work in Higher Education in Australia
R e‐ W riting Corporate E nvironmentalism
The politics of knowledge
Gendered organizations and intersectionality
Feminist Scholarship and the Public Realm in Postcolonial Australia
The Mirage of Merit
Writing materiality into management and organization studies through and with Luce Irigaray
Women, choice and promotion or why women are still a minority in the professoriate
Experiencing the progress report
Gender, power and managerialism in universities
(Re)Writing the Body
The Laugh of the Medusa
Ivory Basement Leadership
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Gender differences and factors affecting publication productivity among Australian university academics
Fiction and the Feminist Academic Novel
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |