Leading the Way [electronic resource] : Young Women's Activism for Social Change / edited by Mary K. Trigg ; foreword by Mary S. Hartman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trigg, Mary K., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Leadership.

Feminism.

Women.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 235 p. )

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Overview: Leading the Way is a collection of personal essays written by twenty-one young, hopeful American women who describe their work, activism, leadership, and efforts to change the world. It responds to critical portrayals of this generation of "twenty-somethings" as being disengaged and apathetic about politics, social problems, and civic causes. Bringing together graduates of a women's leadership certificate program at Rutgers University's Institute for Women's Leadership, these essays provide a contrasting picture to assumptions about the current death of feminism, the rise of selfishness and individualism, and the disaffected Millennium Generation. Reflecting on a critical juncture in their lives-the years during college and the beginning of careers or graduate studies-the contributors' voices demonstrate the ways that diverse, young, educated women in the United States are embodying and formulating new models of leadership, at the same time as they are finding their own professional paths, ways of being, and places in the world. They reflect on controversial issues such as gay marriage, gender, racial profiling, war, immigration, poverty, urban education, and health care reform in a post-9/11 era. Leading the Way introduces readers to young women who are being prepared and empowered to assume leadership roles with men in all public arenas, and to accept equal responsibility for making positive social change in the twenty-first century. Mary K. Trigg is an associate professor in the department of women's and gender studies and director of leadership programs and research at the Institute for Women's Leadership, Rutgers University.

Contents:

Going back home : teaching literature and poetry to Latino and African American high school students / Kristy Clementina Perez

Soldier in a long white dress : notes from the battle for same-sex marriage / Andrea E. Vaccaro

Living while Muslim : human rights advocacy in the post-9/11 era / Arwa Ibrahim

"What are you?" : projecting the perspective of the in-between / Ingrid Hu Dahl

Leading by example : my mother's resilience and power in the fight against poverty / Rosanna Eang

Acting on a grander scale : ending health care disparities in the Latino community / Carol Mendez

Learning the meaning of one : reflections on social justice education / Jessica H. Greenstone

Storybooks and fairytales from rural Teso : leadership as local problem solving / Sivan Yosef

Navigating identity politics in activism : leading outside of one's community / Allison M. Attenello

Finding the face in public health policy : leadership learning through outreach / Courtney S. Turner

Eating with a spoon : learning from women at the grass roots of society / Dahlia Goldenberg

Giving voice to the unheard : writing with women in Trenton / Kristen Lyons Maravi

Moving through message : feminist counternarratives for social change / Liza Brice

The transformation of a Chrysalis : becoming a global citizen / Sasha Taner

Changing the face of leadership : legislators at large for American women / Edna Ishayik

Choosing nursing : a feminist odyssey / Jan Oosting Kaminsky

Safe keepers and wage earners : South Asian working women in the United States / Anuradha Shyam

Blurring the lines that divide : social change through activism, politics, and the space between / Shira Lynn Pruce

Practicing leadership : the unexpected plunge into politics / Alanna Chan

Stories from the sidelines : career versus family / Megan Pinand

Creating knowledge : feminist music scholarship as activism / Mary Simonson.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8135-5117-X

OCLC:

794698950