Pathways to Female Leadership through Game of Thrones (WITHDRAWN)

This paper addresses both the management studies literature on gender in leadership, and the media-studies literature on gender and leadership in telefantasy, through an exploration of portrayals of female leadership in the television series Game of Thrones. Building on Martin et al’s (2018) proposal for using literature by and about women as a tool by which management educators can address the lack of material relating specifically to women’s issues in leadership, I propose to examine three cases of female leadership in Game of Thrones (Daenerys Targaryen, Catelyn Stark and Sansa Stark), with a view to, first, analysing its construction of different forms of female leadership, and, second, developing its potential as a tool for management paedagogy and theory-building.