Communicative Understandings of Women’s Leadership Development

Elesha L. Ruminski is chair and assistant professor of communication studies and coordinator of leadership studies at Frostburg State University.Annette M. Holba is assistant professor of rhetoric at Plymouth State University.

Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, weaves the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection about women's leadership development in academic, organizational, and political contexts. This work claims a space for women's leadership studies and acknowledges the paradigmatic shift from discussing women's leadership using the glass ceiling to what Eagly and Carli (2007) identify as the labyrinth of leadership.

1 Foreword 2 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. Women's Communicative Leadership in Higher Education Chapter 5 2. Cultivating Women Leaders: One Voice at a Time Chapter 6 3. Education for Global Leadership: A Leadership Agenda for Women Chapter 7 4. Teaching Women's Leadership: Exploring the Interdisciplinary and Gendering of Curricular Leadership Development Chapter 8 5. Development of a Women and Leadership Course to Increase Awareness of and Involvement by Women in Entrepreneurship Education Chapter 9 6. Creating a Consciousness of Leadership: A Case Study of a University Women's CR Group Chapter 10 7. Women's Leadership in the Academy: Identifying, Evaluating, and Rewarding Feminine Contributions Chapter 11 8. Making It Up as You Go: The Socially Constructed Improvisation of Women's Organizational Leadership Chapter 12 9. Savvy, Not Super: Women, Leadership, and Strategic Communication Chapter 13 10. Women and Leisure: Communicative Leaders for the 21st Century 14 Afterword 15 About the Authors 16 Index