Women Embodied Leaders

Randal Joy Thompson is a Fellow with the Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University, USA, and a scholar-practitioner with 40 years professional experience in international development around the world.Lazarina N. Topuzova is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Organizational Leadership, School of Communication and Media, Robert Morris University, USA. She is the past Chair of the Leadership for Peace Community of the International Leadership Association.

• Overview and Introduction; Randal Joy Thompson Prelude: Women’s Bodies, Culture, and Leading for Peace; Lazarina N. Topuzova Part I: Embodied Somatic Leadership: Models/ Praxis Chapter 1. Embodied Somatic Leadership as Practiced in In the Time of the Butterflies; Sydney D. Richardson Chapter 2. The Embodiment of Agency: Women Leaders in Authoritarian, Patriarchal, and Religious Societies; Elizabeth Stork Chapter 3. Hope and Communityship: Women’s Ways of Engaging in Embodied Somatic Leadership; Kem Gambrell and Terri Stewart Part II: The Indigenous Way of Embodied Leading and Protesting Chapter 4. All our relations: Indigenous women’s holistically embodied and relational leadership in Canadian universities; Candace Brunette-Debassige Chapter 5. Indigenous Women Warriors: The Embodiment of Place; Kem Gambrell and Salena Beaumont Hill Chapter 6. Antiracism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives of a Māori Woman and a Pākehā Woman on maintaining Mana; Heather Came and Moahuia Goza Part III: Embodied Protests Chapter 7. Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice in Nigeria’s Political Landscape: The Impact of Naked Protests; Salome Irimekyen Samuel Chapter 8. Hijab, Habitus, Hysteresis: Unveiling Iranian Women’s Embodied Leadership; Elham Salehi, Keyhan Shams, and Trisha Gott Chapter 9. The Women of Srebrenica: Planting the Seeds of Hope and Love in Bosnia’s Charred and Blood-soaked Terrain; Mira Ibrisimovic Chapter 10. Global Followers’ Identities Within a Global Social Movement: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Global Followers Within the Women’s March; Tobey J. Zimber Part IV: Performativity: Embodied Protests through the Arts Chapter 11. My Body, My Voice: Women and the Art of Protest; Darin Jones and Crystina Wyler Chapter 12. Reflections on the Madre Diaries: A Fiction-based Autobiography of Mourning and Resistance; Kevin D. Collins Chapter 13. Performing Leadership for Radical Change: Women’s Embodied Activism through Theatre; Victoria Pagan and Sara Zaeemdar Part V: Reclaiming our Bodies Chapter 14. Body Matters: Arts-Based, Embodied Leadership Development for Resisting Violence and Injustice; Kathryn Mansfield and Katia Ornelas Chapter 15. EARTH: Empowering All Relatives to Heal; Noshene Ranjbar, Andréana Elise Lefton, Alta Piechowski-Begay, and Rica Wilson Chapter 16. Our Bodies, Ourselves; Barbara Kellerman