Bold Women in Leadership

In March 2020 as the pandemic changed the landscape of our learning environment, Dr. Anne S. Douds invited students to work with her virtually on a book that she has been developing: Bold Women of the Eisenhower Era: Feminism, Leadership, and the 1950s. Thirty-five students accepted the challenge to research, analyze, and write about women they selected and who embody the overarching theme of women’s under-appreciated efforts to promote social change in the 1950s. Dr. Douds mentored the team of student authors in narrative analysis methods as the dove deeply into archival materials, mid-century media coverage, scholarly research, and personal diaries to prepare biographies of these women and their work. Now the students are analyzing those biographies through the lens of modern critical leadership theory. Many of the students’ work will be turned into a chapter for the book, which has an expected publication date of December 2021. ​

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