Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements (Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0813566002 ISBN 13: 9780813566009

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2016

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"An important and unique contribution."--Sally J. Kenney "Executive Director, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University " "The selection of women leaders is neither haphazard nor hagiographic but combines a diversity of nation, race, generation, and political issues with thoughtful examination of different modalities of leadership ... Each essay balances rich biographical data with analytic insight, making this an excellent classroom tool ... Essential."--Choice "Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements spotlights the lives of an extraordinary array of women who led impossible campaigns for social justice, and succeeded. These inspirational stories demonstrate abiding hope and astonishing strength."--Alice Kessler-Harris "Columbia University "

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2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

From Eleanor Roosevelt to feminist icon Gloria Steinem to HIV/AIDS activist Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these remarkable women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what leadership strategies did they use to deal with various challenges?    Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements explores these questions by introducing twelve women who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements that span the 1940s to the present, working for indigenous peoples' rights, gender equality, reproductive rights, labor advocacy, environmental justice, and other causes. The women profiled here work in a variety of arenas across the globe: Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, New York City labor organizer Bhairavi Desai, women's rights leader Charlotte Bunch, feminist poet Audre Lorde, civil rights activists Daisy Bates and Aileen Clarke Hernandez, Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, Nicaraguan revolutionary Mirna Cunningham, and South African public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela. What unites them all is the way these women made sacrifices, asked critical questions, challenged injustice, and exhibited the will to act in the face of often-harsh criticism and violence.   The case studies in Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements demonstrate the diversity of ways that women around the world have practiced leadership, in many instances overcoming rigid cultural expectations about gender. Moreover, the cases provide a unique window into the ways that women leaders make decisions at moments of struggle and historical change.   

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• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0813566002
• ISBN 13: 9780813566009
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Herausgeber: Trigg Mary K.