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Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was
actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing
social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction,
prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a
journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social,
political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America.
Recent scholarship has linked Poe's imaginative writings to the
historical realities of nineteenth-century America, including to
science and technology, wars and politics, the cult of death and
bereavement, and, most controversially, to slavery and stereotyped
attitudes toward women. Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism presents
a systematic approach to topical criticism of Poe, revealing a new
portrait of Poe as an author who blended topics of intellectual and
social importance and returned repeatedly to these ideas in
different works and using different aesthetic strategies during his
brief but highly productive career. Twelve essays point readers
toward new ways of considering Poe's themes, techniques, and
aesthetic preoccupations by looking at Poe in the context of
landscapes, domestic interiors, slavery, prosody, Eastern cultures,
optical sciences, Gothicism, and literary competitions, clubs, and
reviewing.
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development:
From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L.
Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines 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.
Women's leadership development exists at the intersection of
consciousness-raising, communication competence, and education to
increase one's knowledge and practice of "leadership," which makes
the weaving together of these three disciplines important. Thus,
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
claims a space for women's leadership studies and acknowledges the
paradigmatic shift from discussing women's leadership using the
glass ceiling phenomenon to what Eagly and Carli (2007) identify as
the labyrinth of leadership. Recognizing this metaphoric shift is
crucial because many women now develop leadership amid the
postmodern flux of organizational change; hierarchical, top-down
systems are being eroded in lieu of transformational,
collaborative, even improvisational leadership processes. Women's
leadership studies is emerging as a fruitful interdisciplinary area
that reframes the debate about whether we live, work, and learn
within a third-wave feminist or post-feminist context. While this
area might include feminist theorizing, it also might not emphasize
such epistemologies. For this reason, Ruminski and Holba's edited
collection explores and highlights a variety of feminist and
non-feminist intersections, and is thus an important and timely
contribution to both marking where we are with women's leadership
development in higher education and how women can further develop
themselves as leaders.
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development:
From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L.
Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines 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.
Women's leadership development exists at the intersection of
consciousness-raising, communication competence, and education to
increase one's knowledge and practice of "leadership," which makes
the weaving together of these three disciplines important. Thus,
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
claims a space for women's leadership studies and acknowledges the
paradigmatic shift from discussing women's leadership using the
glass ceiling phenomenon to what Eagly and Carli (2007) identify as
the labyrinth of leadership. Recognizing this metaphoric shift is
crucial because many women now develop leadership amid the
postmodern flux of organizational change; hierarchical, top-down
systems are being eroded in lieu of transformational,
collaborative, even improvisational leadership processes. Women's
leadership studies is emerging as a fruitful interdisciplinary area
that reframes the debate about whether we live, work, and learn
within a third-wave feminist or post-feminist context. While this
area might include feminist theorizing, it also might not emphasize
such epistemologies. For this reason, Ruminski and Holba's edited
collection explores and highlights a variety of feminist and
non-feminist intersections, and is thus an important and timely
contribution to both marking where we are with women's leadership
development in higher education and how women can further develop
themselves as leaders.
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