<p> The purpose of this study was to hear both female and male voices of high school principals specifically related to how they fostered and built relationships with five distinct affiliations (colleagues, family, superintendent, confidant or significant other, and self). Multiple studies have focused on examining the lack of female superintendents and the career paths to the superintendency (Coleman, 2001; Katz, 2005), whereas few have addressed the lack of high school female principals. The high school principalship is a stepping stone to the superintendency (Coleman, 2001; Katz, 2005). This notion was of interest to the researcher, a standing female principal, as she wanted to focus on the stepping stone of the high school principal to the superintendency. </p><p> &ldquo;The absence of women at senior levels of administration, particularly the superintendency, in K-12 institutions means that women&rsquo;s influence on policy changes, decisions, and practice in the field is limited&rdquo; (Mahitivanichcha &amp; Rorrer, 2006, p. 486).</p>

<p> A Marxist feminist standpoint positions patriarchy and capitalism as mutually beneficial, thus interestingly situating the new market of male contraceptives (MCs). This project takes an in-depth look at the opinions of 15 young men regarding the use of MCs by examining how Western, heterosexual masculinity informs their attitudes and discusses how a new economic market of MCs may affect current social ideologies about of the sexual division of labor. Because notions of masculinity are essential in perpetuating such ideologies, understanding masculinity as it relates to a new market for MCs is imperative. During a series of focus groups men described this relationship in terms of responsibility, control, sexual pleasure, cost, gendered ideologies, and side effects. As a result of this research, I argue that the emerging market for MCs may simultaneously strengthen power dynamics and restructure labor practices within the sexual division of labor.</p>

Women's Studies uncovers women's experience as well as critiques the content and methodologies of the disciplines in an attempt to correct the neglect and/or distortion of women's experience historically as well as in the present. This feminist critique asks fundamental questions about the ways that knowledge has been collected, analyzed and synthesized. Arguing that women's experience is omitted and/or distorted the resulting analysis is not an accurate representation of the human experience, feminist scholars in all areas of inquiry have begun to develop new methodologies. Feminist theoreticians have developed theoretical frameworks within which women's experience can be accurately analyzed. While much of this work is of great value to all scholarship, it is also limited by its failure to incorporate the lives of all groups of women within its theoretical constructs. The three major strands of feminist theory: radical, reformist and socialist, neglect issues of race and culture while basing their theories within the assumptions of their own race and culture. The resulting frameworks, then, are necessarily inadequate to analyze the lives of women who fall outside the hegemony. Afro-American Third World women have criticized accurately feminist theory for excluding their lives. This study broadens that critique to include white ethnic women. Using the vehicle of autobiography, it presents a challenge to feminist theory. While that theory does address some issues in my life and the lives of other Armenian-American women, other issues of crucial importance are totally neglected. Thus, the analysis of our lives can only be distorted if the frameworks of feminist theory are used. The study also questions the accuracy of the analysis of the lives of women of the dominant group if the theory does not address issues of race and culture. The failure of feminist theory to recognize the relative power of women in the dominant group and to bring that reality into their analyses results in a partial theory which distorts all women's lives.

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