Research Catalog

Title

Black women's rights : leadership and the circularities of power / Carole Boyce Davies.

Author

Boyce Davies, Carole

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

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Details

Description

xiv, 331 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "This book studies the manifestation of leadership as expressed, narrativized, and represented by women of African descent. It uses the language of "rights" and "power" to assert that Black women find strategic alternatives to the male-dominated leadership status quo and are the leaders of the future"--
• "Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power presents Black women as alternative and transformative leaders in the highest political positions and at grassroots community levels. Beginning with a critique of the assumption of an equivalence between masculinity and political leadership, Carole Boyce Davies moves through the various conceptual definitions, intents, and meanings of leadership and the differences in the presentation of practices of leadership by women and feminist scholars. She studies the actualizing of political leadership in the Presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the historical role of Shirley Chisholm as the first woman to run for presidency of the United States on a leading party ticket, the promise of the Black left feminist leadership of Brazilian Marielle Franco, and the current model of Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados in advancing new leadership models from the Caribbean. This book proclaims the 21st century as the century for Black women's leadership." --

Subject

• Women, Black > Civil rights
• Women, Black > Political activity
• Women's rights
• Women politicians
• African American women politicians
• Political leadership
• Leadership in women
• Women, Black > Social conditions
• Women, Black
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.

Contents

Introduction: "I Am a Woman's Rights": Power and Parity Politics -- Chapter 1: Assuming the Right to Leadership: Black Women and Political Power -- Chapter 2: Feminist Literary Leadership in African Women's Writing -- Chapter 3: Alternative President! Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela's Challenge -- Chapter 4: "Yes. We Want the Power!": Writing African Women's Political Leadership / with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Wangari Maathai -- Chapter 5: Black Women Lead the Desire for a Transformed United States: The Pivotal Role of Shirley Chisholm -- Chapter 6: Advancing Global Leadership Paradigms from the Caribbean -- Chapter 7: Marielle Franco and Black Left Feminist Leadership in Brazil -- Coda: From Cuba to Colombia: Challenges and Possibilities: A Politics of the Possible: "Vivir Sabroso".

Call Number

Sc E 23-278

ISBN

• 9781793612380
• 1793612382
• 9781793612397 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022046128

OCLC

1322178732

Author

Boyce Davies, Carole, author.

Title

Black women's rights : leadership and the circularities of power / Carole Boyce Davies.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-278