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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.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780813565996
Author Mary K. Trigg
Format Paperback
Page Count 282
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 20mm
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.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780813565996
Author Mary K. Trigg
Format Paperback
Page Count 282
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 20mm
