Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power

Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power presents Black women as alternative and transformative leaders at the highest political positions and grassroots community levels. It critiques the assumption of an equivalence between masculinity and political leadership and studies the actualization of political leadership in the Presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Shirley Chisholm, Marielle Franco, and Mia Mottley.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 346 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power presents Black women as alternative and transformative leaders in the highest political positions and at grassroots community levels. Beginning with a critique of the assumption of an equivalence between masculinity and political leadership, Carole Boyce Davies moves through the various conceptual definitions, intents, and meanings of leadership and the differences in the presentation of practices of leadership by women and feminist scholars. She studies the actualization of political leadership in the Presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the historical role of Shirley Chisholm as the first woman to run for presidency of the United States on a leading party ticket, the promise of the Black left feminist leadership of Brazilian Marielle Franco, and the current model of Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados in advancing new leadership models from the Caribbean. This book proclaims the 21st century as the century for Black women's leadership.

Black women are portrayed as alternative and transformative leaders in the highest political positions and at grassroots community levels in Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power. Carole Boyce Davies challenges the notion that masculinity and political leadership are synonymous by critiquing the assumption of their equivalence. She then explores the diverse conceptual definitions, intentions, and meanings of leadership, as well as the disparities in how women and feminist scholars present their leadership practices. Davies examines the realization of political leadership in the presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the historical significance of Shirley Chisholm as the first woman to run for the presidency of the United States on a major party ticket, the potential of Brazilian Marielle Franco's Black left feminist leadership, and the current model of Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados in advancing new leadership models from the Caribbean. This book declares the 21st century as the century for Black women's leadership.

Weight: 481g
Dimension: 225 x 155 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793612403