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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132292803321

Titolo

Diversity in leadership : Australian women, past and present / / edited by Joy Damousi, Kim Rubenstein and Mary Tomsic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-925021-71-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.420994

Soggetti

Leadership in women - Australia

Women - Political activity - Australia

Businesswomen - Australia

Women - Australia - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references.

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

8. 'Part of the human condition': Women in the Australian disability rights movementPart IV; 9. Female factory inspectors and leadership in early twentieth-century Australia; 10. From philanthropy to social entrepreneurship; 11. Academic women and research leadership in twentieth-century Australia; Part V; 12. Beyond the glass ceiling: The material culture of women's political leadership; 13. Entertaining children: The 1927 Royal Commission on the Motion Picture Industry as a site of women's leadership; 14. Women's leadership in writers' associations; Part VI

15. Collectivism, consensus and concepts of shared leadership in movements for social change16. Passionate defenders, accidental leaders: Women in the Australian environment movement; 17. Consuming interests: Women's leadership in Australia's consumer movement; Conclusion: Gender and leadership; Epilogue: Reflections on women and leadership through the prism of citizenship

Sommario/riassunto

Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local,



national and international contexts.