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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.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
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
Appendix: Conversations with Black Women on Political Leadership
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Carole Boyce Davies, an endowed professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University, is a leading scholar of African Diaspora, Black feminist theories and literatures, and Black women's writings internationally.
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.
