Introduction, Reconsidering feminist research in educational leadership / Linda Skrla and Michelle D. Young -- Laying the groundwork for a reconception of the superintendency from feminist postmodern perspectives / Margaret Grogan -- Considering (irreconcilable?) contradictions in cross-group feminist research / Michelle D. Young -- Linguistic production of genderlessness in the superintendency / Jennifer Scott -- Mourning silence : women superintendents (and a researcher) rethink speaking up and speaking out / Linda Skrla -- Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen : examining an endarkened feminist epistemology in educational research and leadership / Cynthia B. Dillard -- Chicana feminism and educational leadership / Sylvia Mโendez-Morse -- Loving epistemology : what I hold critical in my life, faith, and profession / Julie C. Laible -- Life lessons and a loving epistemology : a response to Julie Laible's loving epistemology / Colleen A. Capper