Full Description
Throughout history women have struggled to reclaim their bodies from the meanings and assaults imposed on them by cultural practices, sexual mores, victimization, and concepts of how their bodies should be presented and managed in public, to intimate male partners, or in the workplace. Despite the images and expectations imposed on their bodies, women are increasingly claiming their bodies as their own through embodied somatic leadership, in protesting injustice, in promoting peace, and in working in a so-called "man's world." Why has embodied somatic leadership more recently become highlighted, and what conditions in the world have brought this approach to leadership under study and scrutiny?
Women Embodied Leaders answers these questions, analyzing models of embodied somatic leadership, and how women use this leadership from a number of perspectives. The wholistic treatment of this leadership is a useful tool not only for researchers, practitioners, and activists, but also for educators in the fields of leadership and social justice.
The Transformative Women Leaders Series is published in collaboration between the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Emerald Publishing. Celebrating women leaders and the leadership styles they employ to achieve success, the books in this series highlight successful context-specific leadership approaches and the moral qualities of endurance.
Contents
Overview and Introduction; Randal Joy Thompson
Prelude: Women's Bodies, Culture, and Leading for Peace; Lazarina N. Topuzova
Part I: Embodied Somatic Leadership: Models/ Praxis
Chapter 1. Embodied Somatic Leadership as Practiced in In the Time of the Butterflies; Sydney D. Richardson
Chapter 2. The Embodiment of Agency: Women Leaders in Authoritarian, Patriarchal, and Religious Societies; Elizabeth Stork
Chapter 3. Hope and Communityship: Women's Ways of Engaging in Embodied Somatic Leadership; Kem Gambrell and Terri Stewart
Part II: The Indigenous Way of Embodied Leading and Protesting
Chapter 4. All our relations: Indigenous women's holistically embodied and relational leadership in Canadian universities; Candace Brunette-Debassige
Chapter 5. Indigenous Women Warriors: The Embodiment of Place; Kem Gambrell and Salena Beaumont Hill
Chapter 6. Antiracism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives of a Māori Woman and a Pākehā Woman on maintaining Mana; Heather Came and Moahuia Goza
Part III: Embodied Protests
Chapter 7. Women's Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice in Nigeria's Political Landscape: The Impact of Naked Protests; Salome Irimekyen Samuel
Chapter 8. Hijab, Habitus, Hysteresis: Unveiling Iranian Women's Embodied Leadership; Elham Salehi, Keyhan Shams, and Trisha Gott
Chapter 9. The Women of Srebrenica: Planting the Seeds of Hope and Love in Bosnia's Charred and Blood-soaked Terrain; Mira Ibrisimovic
Chapter 10. Global Followers' Identities Within a Global Social Movement: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Global Followers Within the Women's March; Tobey J. Zimber
Part IV: Performativity: Embodied Protests through the Arts
Chapter 11. My Body, My Voice: Women and the Art of Protest; Darin Jones and Crystina Wyler
Chapter 12. Reflections on the Madre Diaries: A Fiction-based Autobiography of Mourning and Resistance; Kevin D. Collins
Chapter 13. Performing Leadership for Radical Change: Women's Embodied Activism through Theatre; Victoria Pagan and Sara Zaeemdar
Part V: Reclaiming our Bodies
Chapter 14. Body Matters: Arts-Based, Embodied Leadership Development for Resisting Violence and Injustice; Kathryn Mansfield and Katia Ornelas
Chapter 15. EARTH: Empowering All Relatives to Heal; Noshene Ranjbar, Andréana Elise Lefton, Alta Piechowski-Begay, and Rica Wilson
Chapter 16. Our Bodies, Ourselves; Barbara Kellerman
