Choosing to Lead: Women and the Crisis of American Values
by Buchanan, Constance H
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0807020028
- ISBN 13
- 9780807020029
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 276 pages. Notes, bibliography, index, inscription on title page, minor wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. Choosing to Lead explains why women's leadership is vital to reweaving the moral fabric of American life, and reveals why this resource is still largely untapped. Historian Constance H. Buchanan traces the long religious history of the idea that women's authority extends only to the home, and explores how this formulation continues, in often unrecognized ways, to shape modern "secular" values. She shows how black and white women reformers in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America were able to challenge moral barriers to their leadership, changing communities and the national agenda with their public achievements. Contemporary women, Buchanan suggests, can learn from this tradition as they face similar barriers to their leadership and articulate their own public vision. Buchanan argues that women must play a larger role in national affairs, but not as scapegoats for deep-seated problems. Women's fresh viewpoints on both the norms of the public world and the realities ofthe private one can be ignored only at great cost to the nation.
Synopsis
Constance H. Buchanan is a program officer in religion at the Ford Foundation. Previously, she was associate dean of Harvard Divinity School and the founding director of its Women's Studies in Religion program.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46998
- Title
- Choosing to Lead: Women and the Crisis of American Values
- Author
- Buchanan, Constance H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807020028
- ISBN 13
- 9780807020029
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- African-Americans, Domestic Labor, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Sexual Harassment, Social Reform, Women's Studies, Frances Willard, Signed
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