Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements
282 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Hardcover
Release Date:23 May 2016
ISBN:9780813566009
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Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements

Rutgers University Press
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. 
 
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
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.
 
Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments
 
Eleanor Roosevelt: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
            Jo E. Butterfield and Blanche Wiesen Cook
 
Daisy Bates: The NAACP
            Bridget Gurtler
 
Wangari Maathai: The Kenyan Environmental and Democratic Movements
            Rosemary Ndubuizu and Mary K. Trigg
 
Aileen Clarke Hernandez: Putting Black Issues in the Forefront of the Women’s Movement
            Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Kim LeMoon
 
Mirna Cunningham: Indigenous Women and Revolutionary Change in Nicaragua
            Miriam Tola and Alison Bernstein
 
Gloria Steinem: 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: Feminism and 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
 
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