Junctures in women's leadership : social movements / edited by Mary K. Trigg and Alison R. Bernstein.
Series: Junctures: case studies in women's leadershipPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2016Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (18 entries) ; digital filesContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781785398445
- 305.42 23
- HQ1236 .J86 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the universal declaration of human rights / Jo E. Butterfield and Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Daisy Bates and the NAACP / Bridget Gurtler -- Wangari Maathai and the Kenyan environmental and democratic movements / Rosemary Ndubuizu and Mary K. Trigg -- Aileen Clarke Hernandez : putting black women's issues in the forefront of the women's movement / Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Kim LeMoon -- Mirna Cunningham : indigenous women's rights and revolutionary change in Nicaragua / Miriam Tola and Alison Bernstein -- Gloria steinem : getting the message out "on the road and in the media" / Jeremy LaMaster and Mary K. Trigg -- Audre Lorde : "black, lesbian, feminist, mother, poet warrior" / Kathe Sandler and Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Charlotte Bunch : leading from the margins as a global activist for women's rights / Mary K. Trigg and Stina Soderling -- Dazon Dixon Diallo : feminismáand the fight to combat HIV-AIDS / Stina Soderling and Alison Bernstein -- Cecile Richards : leading planned parenthood in the new millennium / Bridget Gurtler -- Bhairavi Desai : organizing immigrant labor with a feminist lens / C. Laura Lovin and Mary K. Trigg -- Thuli Madonsela : whispering truth to power / Taida Wolfe and Alison R. Bernstein -- Contributors -- Index.
The case studies in Junctures in Womens 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.