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From Eleanor Roosevelt to feminist icon Gloria Steinem to HIV/AIDS activist Dazon Dixon Diallo?? women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these remarkable women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power?? what leadership strategies did they use to deal with various challenges??

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Junctures in Women??s Leadership: Social Movements explores these questions by introducing twelve women who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements that span the 1940s to the present?? working for indigenous peoples?? rights?? gender equality?? reproductive rights?? labor advocacy?? environmental justice?? and other causes. The women profiled here work in a variety of arenas across the globe: Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richar