From Eleanor Roosevelt to Gloria Steinem to Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what leadership strategies did they use to deal with various challenges? This volume explores these questions by introducing twelve women who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements.
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Gloria Steinem to Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what leadership strategies did they use to deal with various challenges? This volume explores these questions by introducing twelve women who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements.
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.
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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
