Women Embodied Leaders

Overview and Introduction; 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 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 Maori Woman and a Pakeha 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 Ibrisimovic

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 Theatre; 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