Diversity in leadership : Australian women, past and present /
While leadership is an over-used term today, how it is defined for women and the contexts in which it emerges remains elusive. Moreover, women are exhorted to exercise leadership, but occupying leadership positions has its challenges. Issues of access, acceptable behaviour and the development of ski...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Anu, Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Joy Damousi and Mary Tomsic
- Part I. Feminist perspectives and leadership : 1. A feminist case for leadership / Amanda Sinclair
- Part II. Indigenous women's leadership : 2. Guthadjaka and Garŋgulkpuy: Indigenous women leaders in Yolngu, Australia-wide and international contexts / Gwenda Baker, Joanne Garŋgulkpuy and Kathy Guthadjaka
- 3. Aunty Pearl Gibbs: Leading for Aboriginal rights / Rachel Standfield, Ray Peckham and John Nolan
- Part III. Local and global politics : 4. Women's International leadership / Marilyn Lake
- 5. The big stage: Australian women leading global change / Susan Harris Rimmer
- 6. 'All our strength, all our kindness and our love': Bertha McNamara, bookseller, socialist, feminist and parliamentary aspirant / Michael Richards
- 7. Moderate and mainstream: Leadership in the National Council of Women of Australia, 1930s-1970s / Judith Smart and Marian Quartly
- 8. 'Part of the human condition': Women in the Australian disability rights movement / Nikki Henningham
- Part IV. Leadership and the professions : 9. Female factory inspectors and leadership in early twentieth-century Australia / Joy Damousi
- 10. From philanthropy to social entrepreneurship / Shurlee Swain
- 11. Academic women and research leadership in twentieth-century Australia / Patricia Grimshaw and Rosemary Francis
- Part V. Women and culture : 12. Beyond the glass ceiling: The material culture of women's political leadership / Libby Stewart
- 13. Entertaining children: The 1927 Royal Commission on the Motion Picture Industry as a site of women's leadership / Mary Tomsic
- 14. Women's leadership in writers' associations / Susan Sheridan
- Part VI. Movements for social change : 15. Collectivism, consensus and concepts of shared leadership in movements for social change / Marian Sawer and Merrindahl Andrew
- 16. Passionate defenders, accidental leaders: Women in the Australian environment movement / Jane Elix and Judy Lambert
- 17. Consuming interests: Women's leadership in Australia's consumer movement / Jane Elix and Kate Moore
- Conclusion: Gender and leadership / Joy Damousi and Mary Tomsic
- Epilogue: Reflections on women and leadership through the prism of citizenship / Kim Rubenstein.