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Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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2016 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFrom 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-05-23
Mått140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieJunctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership
Antal sidor282
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813565996

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MARY K. TRIGG is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she serves as director of leadership programs and research at the Institute for Women’s Leadership. She is the author of Leading the Way: Young Women’s Activism for Social Change and Feminism as Life’s Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars (both Rutgers University Press). ALISON R. BERNSTEIN is a professor of history at Rutgers University, where she serves as director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) Consortium. She is the author of several books including Funding the Future: Philanthropy’s Influence in American Higher Education and Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations: Conversations about Difference in the United States and South Africa.

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEleanor Roosevelt: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Jo E. Butterfield and Blanche Wiesen CookDaisy Bates: The NAACP Bridget GurtlerWangari Maathai: The Kenyan Environmental and Democratic Movements Rosemary Ndubuizu and Mary K. TriggAileen Clarke Hernandez: Putting Black Issues in the Forefront of the Women’s Movement Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Kim LeMoonMirna Cunningham: Indigenous Women and Revolutionary Change in Nicaragua Miriam Tola and Alison BernsteinGloria Steinem: On the Road and in the Media Jeremy LaMaster and Mary K. TriggAudre Lorde: Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Mother, Poet Warrior Kathe Sandler and Beverly Guy-SheftallCharlotte Bunch: Leading from the Margins as a Global Activist for Women’s Rights Mary K. Trigg and Stina SoderlingDazon Dixon Diallo: Feminism and the Fight to Combat HIV-AIDs Stina Soderling and Alison BernsteinCecile Richards: Leading Planned Parenthood in the New Millennium Bridget GurtlerBhairavi Desai: Organizing Immigrant Labor with a Feminist Lens C. Laura Lovin and Mary K. TriggThuli Madonsela: Whispering Truth to Power Taida Wolfe and Alison R. BernsteinContributors

"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) "An important and unique contribution." - Sally J. Kenney (Executive Director, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University) "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)