Women on Power

Sue J.M. Freeman is a Psychologist and Professor of Education and Child Study at Smith College. Susan C. Bourque is Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government at Smith College. Christine M. Shelton is Associate Professor of Exercise and Sport Studies and co-director of the Project on Women and Social Change at Smith College. Jill Ker Conway is President Emerita of Smith College and a visiting scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Experts in a variety of disciplines explore women's new roles in sport, politics, corporate America, and the professions, identifying arenas of success as well as persistent limits and barriers to women's leadership.

Amazons and Warriors: The Image of the Powerful Woman (Jill Ker Conway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Smith College); Leadership and Power: New Conceptions (Sue J.M. Freeman and Susan C. Bourque, both Smith College); Theoretical Issues; Women at the Top - You've Come a Long Way, Baby... (Sue J.M. Freeman, Smith College); The Problem of Silence in Feminist Psychology (Maureen A. Mahoney, Smith College); Political Leadership for Women - Redefining Power and Reassessing the Political (Susan C. Bourque, Smith College); Leadership, Sport, and Gender (Mary Jn Kane, University of Minnesota); Historical Case Studies - Starting a Movement; Knowledge is Power: Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (Barbara A. Brehm, Smith College); From Beijing to Atlanta and Beyond: The "Quiet" Revolution [Christine M. Sheiton, Smith College]; Maternal Politics - Global Perspectives; Marching Along with Mothers and Children [Myron Peretz Glazer, Smith College, and Penina Migdal Glazer, Hampshire College]; Mothers as Leaders: The Madres Veracruzanas and the Mexican Antinuclear Movement (Velma Garcia-Gorena, Smith College); Professional Enclaves Open to Women; Women in Veterinary Medicine: Past Achievements and Future Challenges [Miriam Slater, Hampshire College]; Intersections: Women's Sport Leadership and Feminist Praxis; [Carole A. Oglesby, Temple University]