Leading the Way by Mary K Trigg

Leading the Way by Mary K Trigg

Leading the Way is a collection of personal essays written by twenty-one young, hopeful American women who describe their work, activism, leadership, and efforts to change the world. It responds to critical portrayals of this generation of twenty-somethings as being disengaged and apathetic about politics, social problems, and civic causes.

Bringing together graduates of a women's leadership certificate program at Rutgers University's Institute for Women's Leadership, these essays provide a contrasting picture to assumptions about the current death of feminism, the rise of selfishness and individualism, and the disaffected Millennium Generation. Reflecting on a critical juncture in their lives the years during college and the beginning of careers or graduate studies the contributors' voices demonstrate the ways that diverse, young, educated women in the United States are embodying and formulating new models of leadership, at the same time as they are finding their own professional paths, ways of being, and places in the world. They reflect on controversial issues such as gay marriage, gender, racial profiling, war, immigration, poverty, urban education, and health care reform in a post-9/11 era.

Leading the Way introduces readers to young women who are being prepared and empowered to assume leadership roles with men in all public arenas, and to accept equal responsibility for making positive social change in the twenty-first century.

MARY K. TRIGG is an associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she serves as director of leadership programs and research at the Institute for Women's Leadership. She is the author of Leading the Way: Young Women's Activism for Social Change and Feminism as Life's Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars (both Rutgers University Press). ALISON R. BERNSTEIN is a professor of history at Rutgers University, where she serves as director of the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) Consortium. She is the author of several books including Funding the Future: Philanthropy's Influence in American Higher Education and Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations: Conversations about Difference in the United States and South Africa.

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ISBN 13	9780813546841
ISBN 10	0813546842
Title	Leading the Way
Author	Mary K Trigg
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Year published	2010-01-01
Number of pages	272
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