Editors: Randal Joy Thompson and Lazarina N. Topuzova
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Throughout history women have struggled to reclaim their bodies from the meanings and assaults imposed on them by cultural practices, sexual mores, victimization, and concepts of how their bodies should be presented and managed in public, to intimate male partners, or in the workplace. Despite the images and expectations imposed on their bodies, women are increasingly claiming their bodies as their own through embodied somatic leadership, in protesting injustice, in promoting peace, and in working in a so-called “man’s world.” Why has embodied somatic leadership more recently become highlighted, and what conditions in the world have brought this approach to leadership under study and scrutiny?
Women Embodied Leaders answers these questions, analyzing models of embodied somatic leadership, and how women use this leadership from a number of perspectives. The wholistic treatment of this leadership is a useful tool not only for researchers, practitioners, and activists, but also for educators in the fields of leadership and social justice.
Table of Contents
Foreword – Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, K.C
Introduction and Overview – Randal Joy Thompson
Prelude: Women’s Bodies, Culture, and Leading for Peace – Lazarina N. Topuzova
Part I: Embodied Somatic Leadership: Models/Praxis
Chapter 1 Embodied Somatic Leadership as Practiced in the Time of the Butterflies – Sydney D. Richardson
Chapter 2 The Embodiment of Agency: Women Leaders in
Authoritarian, Patriarchal, and Religious Societies – Elizabeth Stork
Chapter 3 Hope and Communityship: Women’s Ways of Engaging in Embodied Somatic Leadership – Kem Gambrell and Terri Stewart
Part II: The Indigenous Way of Embodied Leading and Protesting
Chapter 4 All Our Relations: Indigenous Women’s Holistically Embodied and Relational Leadership in Canadian Universities – Candace Brunette-Debassige
Chapter 5 Indigenous Women Warriors: The Embodiment of Place – Kem Gambrell and Salena Beaumont Hill
Chapter 6 Antiracism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives of a Māori Woman and a Pākehā Woman on Maintaining Mana – Heather Came and Moahuia Goza
Part III: Embodied Protests
Chapter 7 Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice in Nigeria’s Political Landscape: The Impact of Naked Protests – Salome Irimekyen Samuel
Chapter 8 Hijab, Habitus, Hysteresis: Unveiling Iranian Women’s Embodied Leadership – Elham Salehi, Keyhan Shams and Trisha Gott
Chapter 9 The Women of Srebrenica: Planting the Seeds of Hope and Love in Bosnia’s Charred and Blood-Soaked Terrain – Mira Ibrišimović
Chapter 10 Global Followers’ Identities Within a Global Social Movement: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Global Followers Within the Women’s March – Tobey J. Zimber
Part IV: Performativity: Embodied Protests Through the Arts
Chapter 11 My Body, My Voice: Women and the Art of Protest – Darin Jones and Crystina Wyler
Chapter 12 Reflections on the Madre Diaries: A Fiction-Based Autobiography of Mourning and Resistance – Kevin D. Collins
Chapter 13 Performing Leadership for Radical Change: Women’s Embodied Activism Through Theater – Victoria Pagan and Sara Zaeemdar
Part V: Reclaiming Our Bodies
Chapter 14 Body Matters: Arts-Based, Embodied Leadership Development for Resisting Violence and Injustice – Kathryn Mansfield and Katia Ornelas
Chapter 15 EARTH: Empowering All Relatives to Heal – Noshene Ranjbar, Andreana Elise Lefton, Alta Piechowski-Begay and Rica Wilson
Chapter 16 Our Bodies, Ourselves – Barbara Kellerman
Volume Co-Editors
Randal Joy Thompson, PhD, is a Scholar-Practitioner with 40 years of professional experience in international development, serving in countries around the world, and is a Fellow with the Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University.
Randal Joy Thompson, PhD, is a Scholar-Practitioner with 40 years of professional experience in international development, serving in countries around the world. A Fellow with the Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University, her research focuses on the commons, gender, education, evaluation, and organization development. Her book publications include Reimagining Leadership on the Commons: Shifting the Paradigm for a More Ethical, Equitable, and Just World, coedited with Devin Singh and Kathleen Curran (2022), Proleptic Leadership on the Commons: Ushering in a New Global Order (2020), and Leadership and Power in International Development: Navigating the Intersections of Gender, Culture, Context, and Sustainability, coedited with Julia Storberg-Walker (2018) which won the Human Resource Development R. Wayne Pace HRD Book of the Year Award. She has published many book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles on women’s leadership. Her book chapters covered women leaders in Afghanistan, postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, Myanmar, Morocco and she published two articles on violence against women and LGBTQI1 in El Salvador. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Philosophy and an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MA in Biblical Exposition from Capitol Seminary and Graduate School, and a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. She was the 2021 President of the International Leadership Association’s Women and Leadership Member Community.
Lazarina N. Topuzova, PhD, brings over 15 years of experience in the fields of organizational research and intercultural communication. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Communication and Organizational Leadership at Robert Morris University, USA.
Lazarina N. Topuzova, PhD, brings over 15 years of experience teaching and training in the fields of organizational research and program evaluation, diversity, and intercultural communication. She currently is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Organizational Leadership, School of Communication and Media, Robert Morris University, USA. Prior to beginning her career in academia, Dr Topuzova spent time in Kosovo working on educational program development, capacity building, and conflict resolution skills training for youth from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Dr Topuzova holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Utah. She has an MA in American Literature from Sofia University, Bulgaria and a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the European Peace University, Austria. Her current research interests and expertise are in developing leadership capacity in community and grassroots organizations, leadership for peace, women in leadership, as well as best practices in online teaching and learning in leadership education. Dr Topuzova is also the former coeditor of the Journal of Hate Studies and past Chair of the Leadership for Peace Member Community of the International Leadership Association.
About TRANSFORMATIVE WOMEN LEADERS
The Transformative Women Leaders Series is published in collaboration between the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Emerald Publishing. Celebrating women leaders and the leadership styles they employ to achieve success, the books in this series highlight successful context-specific leadership approaches and the moral qualities of endurance. Serving as a model and inspiration for young women leaders entering the workforce and for women leaders currently facing challenges, it provides a community for women leaders around the world.
The series is edited by members of ILA’s Women and Leadership member community.
Chrys Egan, Salisbury University, USA
Dionne Rosser-Mims, Troy University, USA
Randal Joy Thompson, Fielding Graduate University, USA
