Women, Power and Ethnicity: Working Toward Reciprocal Empowerment
Powerful women aren't just men walking around in dresses!\ As women continue to assume positions of social leadership in increasing numbers, the dynamics of the social construction of power need to be examined. Have women adopted traditionally male patterns of behavior in an effort to gain and maintain power in business, industry, politics, academics, etc.? And if not, what kind of power are women practicing? The authors of Women, Power, and Ethnicity: Working Toward Reciprocal Empowerment...
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Women conceive of their own power in a different way from men and differently from each other, argue Darlington and Mulvaney (both of the Department of Communication, Florida Atlantic U.). Investigating women from seven ethnic groups of a South Florida community, they used a questionnaire to explore levels of identification with four models of power, ranging from male-oriented "traditional power" to female- oriented "reciprocal empowerment." The results from each ethnic group is separately described finding that many women rejected feminist notions of simple "empowerment," gravitating more towards the authors' own model of "reciprocal empowerment," although responses prompted some revision of the model. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Power: Past, Present, and Future1Ch. 2African-American Women and Power25Ch. 3Asian-American Women and Power45Ch. 4Caribbean-American Women and Power71Ch. 5European-American Women and Power91Ch. 6Latin American Women and Power115Ch. 7Middle Eastern-American Women and Power141Ch. 8Native American Women and Power169Ch. 9Conclusion193Bibliography215Index229
