HBR'S 10 MUST READS ON WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP

Author: Harvard Business Bureau, Herminia Ibarra, Deborah Tannen, Joan C. Williams, Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

ISBN-13:  9781633696723

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?

If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.

This book will inspire you to better understand the path women must take to leadership.

LEAN IN: WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD

Author: Sheryl Sandberg

Publisher:  Knopf

ISBN-13: 9780385349949

In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg reignited the conversation around women in the workplace.

Sandberg is chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B with Adam Grant. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TED talk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than six million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.

VOICES FROM WOMEN LEADERS ON SUCCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Edited by: Barbara Cozza and Ceceilia Parnther

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN-13: 97810321143316

This book assists aspiring and current women leaders on how to advance into higher education leadership roles.

A critical review of traditional leadership theory offers an opportunity to reimagine how effective leadership is framed and valued in higher education. Chapter authors and case studies explore the intersections of multiple identities and their impacts on leadership through lenses, including institutional type, functional areas, ability, gender identity, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. 

This book is ideal reading for higher education scholars, students, and faculty aspiring to become leaders.

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON GENDER AND LEADERSHIP

Edited by:  Susan R. Madsen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

ISBN-13: 978 1788119740

Although some progress has been made in recent decades in getting women into top positions in government, business and education, there are on-going, persisting challenges with efforts to improve the opportunities for women in leadership. The Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership comprises the latest research from the world's foremost scholars on women and leadership, exposing problems and offering both theoretical and practical solutions on how to best strengthen the impact of women around the world.

This month featuring books on Notable Women and Gender from University of Virginia Press

NIETZSCHE ON GENDER

Author: Frances Nesbitt Oppel

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

ISBN-13:  9780813923208

Although Nietzsche has been considered a misogynist by some -for his treatment of woman and the feminine, Frances Nesbitt Oppel offers a radical reinterpretation of the philosopher's ideas on sex, gender, and sexuality. In this book she argues that Nietzsche's texts and rhetorical style, his letters and notes, show that he was strategically and deliberately dismantling dualistic thinking in general, not only the logical hierarchies of western thought (such as heaven/earth, ethos/pathos) but also the assumed gender opposition of man/woman. She pulls the rug out from under the accusation of his alleged misogyny.

EMILY DAVIS - COLLECTED LETTERS

Edited by: Ann B. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery

Publisher:  University of Virginia Press

ISBN-13: 9780813922324

Sarah Emily Davies lived and crusaded through profound change for women. At the time of her birth, women’s suffrage was inexistent, and universities did not admit women. By the time of her death, all universities admitted women who had also begun to vote.

Much of the social change that Davies witnessed was discussed, encouraged, and elicited through her personal correspondence. In these letters we see Davies struggle to understand and theorize about the role of women. Her intensely engaged life placed Davies at the very heart of the events that transformed her era.

THE MODERN ANDROGYNE IMAGINATION

Author: Lisa Rado

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

ISBN-13: 9780813919805

In the late nineteenth century, as changing cultural representations of gender roles and categories made differences between men and women increasingly difficult to define, theorists such as Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Sigmund Freud began to postulate a third, androgynous sex. For many modern artists, this challenge to familiar hierarchies of gender represented a crisis in artistic authority. Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and other two-sex tropes for the imagination, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and other modernist writers became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination.

A PASSIONATE USEFULNESS

Authors: Gary D. Schmidt

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

ISBN-13: 9780813922720

In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer and to establish a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman, Hannah Adams.

In A Passionate Usefulness the first book-length biography of this remarkable figure, Gary Schmidt focuses primarily on the intimate connection between Adams’s reading and her own literary work. Hers is the story of incipient scholarship in the new nation, the story of a dependence that evolved into intellectual independence.