Women Embodied Leaders
Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions
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Throughout history women have struggled to reclaim their bodies from the meanings and assaults imposed on them by cultural practices, sexual mores, victimization, and concepts of how their bodies should be presented and managed in public, to intimate male partners, or in the workplace. Despite the images and expectations imposed on their bodies, women are increasingly claiming their bodies as their own through embodied somatic leadership, in protesting injustice, in promoting peace, and in working in a so-called “man’s world.” Why has embodied somatic leadership more recently become highlighted, and what conditions in the world have brought this approach to leadership under study and scrutiny?
Women Embodied Leaders answers these questions, analyzing models of embodied somatic leadership, and how women use this leadership from a number of perspectives. The wholistic treatment of this leadership is a useful tool not only for researchers, practitioners, and activists, but also for educators in the fields of leadership and social justice.
The Transformative Women Leaders Series is published in collaboration between the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Emerald Publishing. Celebrating women leaders and the leadership styles they employ to achieve success, the books in this series highlight successful context-specific leadership approaches and the moral qualities of endurance.
Overview and Introduction; Randal Joy Thompson
- Prelude: Women’s Bodies, Culture, and Leading for Peace; Lazarina N. Topuzova
- Part I: Embodied Somatic Leadership: Models/ Praxis
- Chapter 1. Embodied Somatic Leadership as Practiced in In the Time of the Butterflies; Sydney D. Richardson
- Chapter 2. The Embodiment of Agency: Women Leaders in Authoritarian, Patriarchal, and Religious Societies; Elizabeth Stork
- Chapter 3. Hope and Communityship: Women’s Ways of Engaging in Embodied Somatic Leadership; Kem Gambrell and Terri Stewart
- Part II: The Indigenous Way of Embodied Leading and Protesting
- Chapter 4. All our relations: Indigenous women’s holistically embodied and relational leadership in Canadian universities; Candace Brunette-Debassige
- Chapter 5. Indigenous Women Warriors: The Embodiment of Place; Kem Gambrell and Salena Beaumont Hill
- Chapter 6. Antiracism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives of a Māori Woman and a Pākehā Woman on maintaining Mana; Heather Came and Moahuia Goza
- Part III: Embodied Protests
- Chapter 7. Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice in Nigeria’s Political Landscape: The Impact of Naked Protests; Salome Irimekyen Samuel
- Chapter 8. Hijab, Habitus, Hysteresis: Unveiling Iranian Women’s Embodied Leadership; Elham Salehi, Keyhan Shams, and Trisha Gott
- Chapter 9. The Women of Srebrenica: Planting the Seeds of Hope and Love in Bosnia’s Charred and Blood-soaked Terrain; Mira Ibrisimovic
- Chapter 10. Global Followers’ Identities Within a Global Social Movement: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Global Followers Within the Women’s March; Tobey J. Zimber
- Part IV: Performativity: Embodied Protests through the Arts
- Chapter 11. My Body, My Voice: Women and the Art of Protest; Darin Jones and Crystina Wyler
- Chapter 12. Reflections on the Madre Diaries: A Fiction-based Autobiography of Mourning and Resistance; Kevin D. Collins
- Chapter 13. Performing Leadership for Radical Change: Women’s Embodied Activism through Theatre; Victoria Pagan and Sara Zaeemdar
- Part V: Reclaiming our Bodies
- Chapter 14. Body Matters: Arts-Based, Embodied Leadership Development for Resisting Violence and Injustice; Kathryn Mansfield and Katia Ornelas
- Chapter 15. EARTH: Empowering All Relatives to Heal; Noshene Ranjbar, Andréana Elise Lefton, Alta Piechowski-Begay, and Rica Wilson
- Chapter 16. Our Bodies, Ourselves; Barbara Kellerman
Randal Joy Thompson is a Fellow with the Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University, USA, and a scholar-practitioner with 40 years professional experience in international development around the world.
Lazarina N. Topuzova is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Organizational Leadership, School of Communication and Media, Robert Morris University, USA. She is the past Chair of the Leadership for Peace Community of the International Leadership Association.