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Selected References on Women and Transformational Leadership

Dec 8, 2004, 17:25

1. Acker J. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender and Society. 4(2). June 139-58. This article calls for a system theory of gender and organizations.

2. Antrobus, Peggy. The Rise and Fall of Feminist Politics in the Caribbean Women’s Movement 1975-1995 (Lucille Mathurin Mair Lecture). Centre for Gender and Development Studies. 2000.

3. Bass, Bernard M. and Bruce J. Avolio. Improving Organisational Effectiveness Through Transformational Leadership. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1994. This book examines the theory and practice of the dynamic and innovative style of transformational leadership.

4. Barriteau, Violet Eudine. Historical Concepts and Paradigms of Leadership and their Relevance to Strengthening Women’s Transformational Leadership in the Caribbean. Background paper for the UNIFEM Caribbean Office’s Transformational Leadership Project. July 2001. This paper provides a conceptual and research framework for recognizing and promoting women’s transformational leadership.

5. Barriteau, Eudine and Alan Cobley. Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Dame Nita Barrow, Social Change and International Development. Kingston: Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Cave Hill and the University of the West Indies Press. 2001. This volume examines how Dame Nita Barrow developed her leadership strategies to contribute to social change and development policy on national, regional and international levels.

6. Barriteau, Eudine. Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean. UWI Press. 2003. This valuable contribution to the exploration of masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean provides a fundamental resource that pays special attention to the interaction of power and sexuality in the creation of masculine identities in the region. This is vital reading for policy makers and teachers and students of gender studies.

7. Brasiliero, Ana Maria and Karen Judd. Women’s Leadership in a Changing World – Reflecting on Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: UNIFEM. 1996. This book analyses the differential nature, power and potential of women’s leadership from various contexts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Strategic interventions resulting in the political empowerment of women and which would enable them to assume control over the multiple processes of decision making is discussed.

8. Brim Woolpert, Stephen, Christa Daryl Slaton and Edward W. Schwerin. Transformational Politics: Theory, Study and Practice. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1998. This book examines transformational political theory as an emerging paradigm, and draws on a wide array of theories – empowerment, feminist, democratic, communitarian, chaos, quantum, conflict resolution, and self-actualization. This book also examines how a transformational perspective guides the study of politics in both research and teaching.

9. Cantor, Dorothy W., Tony Barney and Jane Stoess. Women in Power: The Secrets of Leadership. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. This book is an examination of women in power. The authors interviewed 25 prominent American female politicians to identify common traits that led to their success.

10. Crosby, Barbara. “Women: New Images of Leadership.” Social Policy. Fall: 40-44. 1998. An article on women and new strategies in leadership.

11. Francis Brown, Susan. Spitting in the Wind: Lessons in Empowerment from the Caribbean. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers in association with the Commonwealth Foundation. 2000. Caribbean case studies on empowerment through civil society action. The stories reflect individual and organizational experiences from Belize to Jamaica, the Windward Islands to Jamaica. Case Studies by: Dylan Vernon, Belize Andaiye, Guyana Horace Levy, Jamaica Regina Dumas-Sanchez, Windward Islands.

12. Hall, Nora and Karen Gray. “Leadership for Black Women: Strategies for the Future.” Sage A. Scholarly Journal of Black Women. 5 no.2: 53-55. 1998. Leadership Strategies targeted for black women.

13. Hartman, Alice M. Ed. Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1999. This is a survey/research paper that presents the differences and commonalities in the lives and leadership approaches of outstanding contemporary women in areas ranging from philanthropy and politics to business and academia.

14. Higbie, Janet. Eugenia: the Caribbean’s Iron Lady. London: Macmillan Education. 1992. This biography examines the life of Eugenia Charles, from her middle-class childhood in colonial Dominica and legal training in London through her entry into her island's turbulent politics in 1968. Elected prime minister in 1980, Charles survived two coups during her first year in office and drew worldwide attention when she stood at Ronald Reagan's side at a White House press conference to defend the Grenada invasion.

15. Jain, Devaki and Supriti Bezbaruah. For Women to Lead - Ideas and Experiences from Asia: A study on the Legal and Political Impediments to Gender Equality in Governance. New York: UNDP. 1997. This is a study on the legal and political barriers to gender equity in governance in the Asian context.

16. Jain, Devaki. The Leadership Gap: A Challenge to Feminists. Paper Presented to the Sixth Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies, Mysore, India, May 31st – June 3rd. This paper addresses the leadership gap and fragmentation in the global women’s movement.

17. Kilkenny, Roberta. Women in Social and Political Struggle: British Guiana 1946-1953. Presented at the 16th Annual Conference of Caribbean Historians, April 8-13 1984. This paper examine the roles of women’s organizations in British Guiana over the period 1946-1953 and notes that they did not merely serve a supporting role in the struggle for political and social justice as has been documented in the country’s post-war historiography.

18. Kabeer, Naila. “Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurements of Women’s Empowerment.” Development and Change. (30)3: 435-464. 1999. In this paper, women’s empowerment is viewed as a process by which those who have been denied the opportunity to make strategic life choices acquire such an ability. The ability to exercise choice incorporates three inter-related dimensions: resources, agency and achievements. The paper argues that these three dimensions are indivisible in determining the meaning of an indicator and hence its validity as a measure of empowerment.

19. Karl, Marilee, Women and Empowerment: Participation and Decision Making. London and New Jersey: Zed Books. 1995. This book draws on a variety of sources, from UN documents to personal interviews to informational material provided by NGOs, to form a history of women’s involvement in politics at all levels including government, trade unions, NGOs, local communities and the UN. Insight into how to grant women a fair share of power in decision-making is also provided.

20. Mitchell, Jacquelyn. “Three Women: Cultural Roles and Leadership Roles in the Black Community.” Sage A Scholarly Journal of Black Women. 5 no 2: 9- 19. 1998. The author examines the cultural and leadership roles of three women in the Black community in the United States.

21. Mohammed Patricia, Judith Wedderburn and Cecilia Babb. Gender-Sensitive Policy Making in the Caribbean: A Manual. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Jamaica in collaboration with the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), Barbados. October 2004. This manual was designed to enhance the representational capacities of female politicians in the Caribbean. The manual will also be of interest to policymakers charged with gender mainstreaming in the public and private sectors, in trade unions, in non-governmental and community-based organizations.

22. Osoba, Ermina, Women in Management and Decision-Making Processes in Antigua and Barbuda: A Statistical Analysis. Paper presented at the Antigua and Barbuda Country Conference 13-15 November,2003.

23. Pohlmann, Lisa. “Ambivalence About Leadership inWomen's Organizations. A Look at Bangladesh.” IDS Bulletin Vol 26. (3), July: 117-124. 1995. This paper is about how women’s organizations present special challenges for leadership. Feminist organizers are attempting to create new organizational structures based on power-sharing. However, these organizational structures are capable of recreating the hierarchical patterns of behavior. This is because efforts towards organizational change are undermined by the pressure to conform to hierarchical patterns that are prevalent in the male-dominated public sphere. Efforts are also undermined by attempts to hinder women’s collective action. Women end up feeling ambivalent both as leaders and towards leadership and authority. The author proposes self-reflection and open communication on these issues, which could increase group effectiveness and solidarity.

24. Porter, Rosemary Anne. Women and State: Women’s Movements in Grenada and their Role in the Grenadian Revolution, 1979 – 1983. Ph.D. Dissertation. Temple University. This study examines the participation of Grenadian women in the economic, political and social processes in Grenada, before, during and after the People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) led by Maurice Bishop from March 1979 to October 1983. It compares the participation of women in women's organizations in Grenada with their participation in the National Organization of Women (NOW), an organization developed by the New Jewel Movement as a mass organization of women through which women would participate in the revolutionary process.

25. Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. Phyllis Shand Allfrey. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 1996. This book tells the story of Phyllis Shand Allfrey of Dominica. She organized the peasantry and estate workers into the island's first political party. Ostracized by the white elite into which she was born, she led the Dominica Labour Party to power and became the West Indian Federation's only woman (and only white) Minister, only to find herself expelled from the Party when the rise of black nationalism made it expedient.

26. Reddock R. Women’s Organizations and Movements in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Response to Global Economic Crisis in the 1980s. Feminist Review vol. 59, no. 1. 1998. In this paper the author explores the emergence of women's organizations and feminist consciousness in the twentieth century in the English-speaking (Commonwealth) Caribbean. The global ideas concerning women's equality from the 1960s onwards clearly informed the initiatives taken by both women and states of the Caribbean. This document is available via the Internet: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?pub=infobike://pal/01417789/1998/00000059/00000001/9495904

27. Schwerin, Edward W. Mediation, Citizen Empowerment and Transformational Politics. Praeger Publishers: 1995. This book is a development of empowerment theory in the context of community mediation. A case study of a large urban community mediation program is used to explore the empowerment concept and to assess widely-believed hypotheses about empowerment and community mediation.

28. Tichy, Noel M. and Mary Ann Devanna. The Transformational Leader: The Key to Global Competitiveness. John Wiley and Sons. 1999. This book provides insight into how to transform an organization, based on inside stories of major industrial and service companies (including Fortune 500 companies), aggressive smaller firms, and European companies. Insight into the styles and philosophies of leaders and executives who have transformed their companies, big and small, is provided.

29. Wieringa, Saskia. Ed. Subversive Women: Women’s Movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. London: Zed Books. 1996. This anthology of feminist writing demonstrates the complexity and diversity of women's movements worldwide. The book opens with an analysis of women's history as subversion and the methodological aspects of feminist research projects.

30. Women Across Differences (WAD). Member Training Programme 2: Building Partnerships. This is a training programme by the NGO, Women Across Differences, that focuses on building partnerships with communities.

31. Vassell, Linette. Leadership Projects and Programmes for Women in the Caribbean: Towards Understanding of Transformational Leadership. Prepared for the UNIFEM Caribbean Office, Bridgetown, Barbados. May 2001. This paper examines the work of individual women, projects and programmes which have been or are being implemented to strengthen women’s leadership in the region through training.

32. Yudelman, Sally. Hopeful Openings: A Study of Five Women’s Organisations in Latin America and the Caribbean. West Hartford: Kuriman Press. 1987. This is a case study of Five Women’s Organizations in Latin America andthe Caribbean.