Black Womanist Leadership
eBook - ePub

Black Womanist Leadership

Tracing the Motherline

  1. 291 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Black Womanist Leadership

Tracing the Motherline

About this book

Featuring the stories of fourteen Black women scholars, Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline offers a culturally based model of Black women's leadership practices, and examines the mother-daughter transmission of these skills. The personal narratives fit into a storytelling tradition that reveals the ways Black mothers and women of the community—the Motherline—teach girls the "ways women lead." The essays present a range of different practical and theoretical issues of leadership and development, including mother nurture, emulation of and divergence from core values, internalized oppression, self determination, representation of the physical self, guardianship/governance of the body, cooperative economics, activism, contentiousness with or differentiation from the mother, and negotiation of leadership across public and private spheres. Together, they make a compelling argument for the necessity of continuing to teach the cultural and gender-specific resistance to oppression that has been passed along the Motherline, and to adapt this Motherline tradition to the lives and needs of women and girls in the 21st century.

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Yes, you can access Black Womanist Leadership by Toni C. King, S. Alease Ferguson, Toni C. King,S. Alease Ferguson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & African American Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Preface: Writing African American Women's Leadership
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Looking to the Motherline
  5. PART I THE MOTHERLINE: ROOTS AND SIGNIFICANCE
  6. PART II THE FOUNDATIONS OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER TUTELAGE
  7. PART III VISIONS OF THE MOTHERLINE: TEMPLATES FOR DAUGHTERS
  8. PART IV TENSIONS ALONG THE MOTHERLINE: TRANSLATING MOTHER TEMPLATES TO DAUGHTER ACTIONS
  9. Contributors