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(2015) Gender, authenticity and leadership, Dordrecht, Springer.
In the last chapter, I suggested that authenticity requires not just an internal sense of purpose, but also responsiveness towards others. Such a responsive orientation necessitates a willingness to think from different perspectives so as to enrich one's understanding. Arendt described this pursuit as "thinking without a bannister', an activity that requires a person to move beyond the constraints of their own assumptions. As part of my attempt to "think without a bannister', and enhance my understanding of the connections among gender, authenticity and leadership, I conducted a qualitative study. The purpose of this chapter is to explore my qualitative approach, which is in the tradition of existential, hermeneutic phenomenology, coupled with a feminist orientation.
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Gardiner, R. A. (2015). Troubling method, in Gender, authenticity and leadership, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 108-129.
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