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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.
Contents
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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