ABSTRACT
This chapter explores issues of emotion, leadership identity and identity work, such as suppressing personal issues as weakness and working excessive hours, in Trials at the Top and Doing Leadership Differently. It provides Arlie Hochschild’s findings and concepts included in later books such as The Time Bind and Strangers in Their Own Land. A feminist discourse constitutes itself through, Ferguson argues quoting Foucault, ‘an insurrection of subjugated knowledges’. The expanding bureaucratization of the polity carries severe consequences for meaningful participation in public life for women and men. An exclusive focus on integrating women into public institutions produces a situation that perpetuates bureaucratic discourse rather than challenging it. Both Judi Marshall and Kathy Ferguson take women’s experiences and their forms of resistance as serious challenges to organizational dogma – in fact, they see the resistances and challenges offered by women and feminist theory as primary grounds for critique.
