Junctures in Women's Leadership : : Social Movements /

Junctures in Women's Leadership : : Social Movements / / ed. by Mary K. Trigg, Alison R. Bernstein.

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 leaders...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Bejarano, Carolina Alonso,
Bernstein, Alison R.,
Butterfield, Jo E.,
Cook, Blanche Wiesen,
Gurtler, Bridget,
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly,
LaMaster, Jeremy,
LeMoon, Kim,
Lovin, C. Laura,
Ndubuizu, Rosemary,
Sandler, Kathe,
Soderling, Stina,
Tola, Miriam,
Trigg, Mary K.,
Wolfe, Taida,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bejarano, Carolina Alonso.
Bernstein, Alison R.
Butterfield, Jo E.
Cook, Blanche Wiesen.
Gurtler, Bridget.
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly.
LaMaster, Jeremy.
LeMoon, Kim.
Lovin, Laura.
Ndubuizu, Rosemary.
Sandler, Kathe.
Soderling, Stina.
Tola, Miriam.
Trigg, Mary K.
Wolfe, Taida.
HerausgeberIn:
Bernstein, Alison R.,
Trigg, Mary K.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword to the Series: Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Eleanor Roosevelt: Negotiating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Daisy Bates: The NAACP
  • Wangari Maathai: Kenyan Environmental and Democratic Movements
  • Aileen Clarke Hernandez: Advocate for Black Women’s Leadership
  • Mirna Cunningham: Indigenous Women and Revolutionary Change in Nicaragua
  • Gloria Steinem: Getting the Message Out
  • Audre Lorde: Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Mother, Poet Warrior
  • Charlotte Bunch: Leading from the Margins as a Global Activist for Women’s Rights
  • Dázon Dixon Diallo: Feminism and the Fight to Combat HIV/AIDS
  • Cecile Richards: Leading Planned Parenthood in the New Millennium
  • Bhairavi Desai: Organizing Immigrant Labor through a Feminist Lens
  • Thuli Madonsela: Whispering Truth to Power
  • Contributors
  • Index

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