Autobiographies, biographies and writing lives

Gender, authentic leadership and identity: analysis of women leaders’ autobiographies

“…As Hogan (2008) has argued, autobiographies of women, particularly those whose intention is to challenge patriarchal gender relations, are useful for understanding how the personal is political for women leaders. By retaining a focus only on women's autobiographical writing, research is able to move beyond the male-dominated descriptions and analyses of life (Amin and Govinden, 2014) and leadership (Riad, 2011) which has so far dominated the academic discourse.…”