During the past year, Educational Administration Quarterly has received a number of manuscripts on women in the superintendency authored by feminist and critical scholars. The editorial team decided to organize these manuscripts into a theme issue and augment it with a review of a recent book on women in the superintendency. Although receiving this set of manuscripts was fortuitous, it was not unremarkable given an increase in scholarly work on the superintendency by women. This introduction places these manuscripts within the historical context of feminist scholarship and highlights their contributions to promising lines of future inquiry and discourse on reconceptualizing the superintendency.
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