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Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths
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2011
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Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection about women's leadership development in academic, organizational, and political contexts. Women's leadership development exists at the intersection of consciousness-raising, communication competence, and education to increase one's knowledge and practice of "leadership," which makes the weaving together of these three disciplines important.
Thus, Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development claims a space for women's leadership studies and acknowledges the paradigmatic shift from discussing women's leadership using the glass ceiling phenomenon to what Eagly and Carli (2007) identify as the labyrinth of leadership. Recognizing this metaphoric shift is crucial because many women now develop leadership amid the postmodern flux of organizational change; hierarchical, top-down systems are being eroded in lieu of transformational, collaborative, even improvisational leadership processes.
Women's leadership studies is emerging as a fruitful interdisciplinary area that reframes the debate about whether we live, work, and learn within a third-wave feminist or post-feminist context. While this area might include feminist theorizing, it also might not emphasize such epistemologies. For this reason, Ruminski and Holba's edited collection explores and highlights a variety of feminist and non-feminist intersections, and is thus an important and timely contribution to both marking where we are with women's leadership development in higher education and how women can further develop themselves as leaders.
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Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2011
Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6643-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7108-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
228
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1 Women’s Communicative Leadership in Higher Education No access Pages 19 - 36
2 Cultivating Women Leaders: One Voice at a Time No access Pages 37 - 56
3 Education for Global Leadership: A Leadership Agenda for Women No access Pages 57 - 72
4 Teaching Women’s Leadership: The Interdisciplinarity and Gendering of Curricular Leadership Development No access Pages 73 - 96
5 Development of a Women and Leadership Course to Increase Awareness of and Involvement by Women in Entrepreneurship Education No access Pages 97 - 112
6 Creating a Consciousness of Leadership: A Case Study of a University Women's CR Group No access Pages 113 - 134
7 Women's Leadership in the Academy: Identifying, Evaluating, and Rewarding Feminine Contributions No access Pages 135 - 154
8 Making It Up as You Go: The Socially Constructed Improvisation of Women's Organizational Leadership No access Pages 155 - 180
9 Women and Politics: Leadership and Communication on the Campaign Trail No access Pages 181 - 194
10 Women and Leisure: Communicative Leaders for the Twenty-First Century No access Pages 195 - 208
