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Title: Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
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Description: 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.
Author: Tracey Quigley Holden
Contributor: Ned S. Laff (Contributions by), Erin L. Payseur (Contributions by), Sheri A. Whalen (Contributions by), Elesha L. Ruminski (Edited by), Alice H. Eagly (Contributions by), Janie Harden Fritz (Contributions by), Tamara L. Burke (Contributions by), Diane A. Forbes Berthoud (Contributions by), Amy C. Branam (Contributions by), Annette M. Holba (Edited by), Tracey Quigley Holden (Contributions by), Nathalie Duval-Couetil (Contributions by), Melissa Wood Alemà (Contributions by), Cara Jacocks (Contributions by), Jenna Stephenson (Contributions by), Jennifer A. Malkowski (Contributions by), Rebecca L. Dohrman (Contributions by), Sandra L. French (Contributions by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780739166437
Format: Hardback
Genre: Society & Culture
ISBN: 9780739166437
ISBN-10: 0739166433
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 161mm
Item Weight: 522g
Item Width: 23mm
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date: 17/11/2011
Subtitle: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Business & Finance
Release Year: 2011

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