Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements

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

"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)