Women on power : leadership redefined
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Women on power : leadership redefined
Northeastern University Press, 2001
- pbk.
- : cloth
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a foreword by Jill Ker Conway
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Women have made enormous strides into the professional workplace over the last two decades, yet few have assumed leadership roles in the higher ranks of predominately male occupations: business, politics, the professions, and sport. This pioneering collection by experts in a variety of disciplines combines theoretical discussions with historical and contemporary case studies to offer a fresh vista on how gender has influenced and redefined today's notions of leadership and power.
The provocative essays cover a broad range of topics, including the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, global perspectives on women's environmental activism, mothering as a catalyst to social activism, and women in the enclaves of veterinary medicine and sports.
Table of Contents
- Amazons and Warriors: The Image of the Powerful Woman (Jill Ker Conway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Smith College)
- Leadership and Power: New Conceptions (Sue J.M. Freeman and Susan C. Bourque, both Smith College)
- Theoretical Issues
- Women at the Top - You've Come a Long Way, Baby... (Sue J.M. Freeman, Smith College)
- The Problem of Silence in Feminist Psychology (Maureen A. Mahoney, Smith College)
- Political Leadership for Women - Redefining Power and Reassessing the Political (Susan C. Bourque, Smith College)
- Leadership, Sport, and Gender (Mary Jn Kane, University of Minnesota)
- Historical Case Studies - Starting a Movement
- Knowledge is Power: Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (Barbara A. Brehm, Smith College)
- From Beijing to Atlanta and Beyond: The "Quiet" Revolution [Christine M. Sheiton, Smith College]
- Maternal Politics - Global Perspectives
- Marching Along with Mothers and Children [Myron Peretz Glazer, Smith College, and Penina Migdal Glazer, Hampshire College]
- Mothers as Leaders: The Madres Veracruzanas and the Mexican Antinuclear Movement (Velma Garcia-Gorena, Smith College)
- Professional Enclaves Open to Women
- Women in Veterinary Medicine: Past Achievements and Future Challenges [Miriam Slater, Hampshire College]
- Intersections: Women's Sport Leadership and Feminist Praxis
- [Carole A. Oglesby, Temple University]
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