1st Edition

Young Women and Leadership

Edited By Katrina Lee-Koo, Lesley Pruitt Copyright 2020
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Through a range of case studies in Asia and the Pacific, this edited collection highlights the extent of the unique ways in which young women lead to create change in their own lives and their communities, as well as in the structures, cultures, and institutions in which they live and work. This volume challenges and reshapes the boundaries and relationships of power that animate traditional... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction

KATRINA LEE-KOO AND LESLEY PRUITT

1 Building a Theory of Young Women’s Leadership

KATRINA LEE-KOO AND LESLEY PRUITT

2 Critical components for advancing young women’s leadership

LESLEY PRUITT AND KATRINA LEE-KOO

3 Young women’s leadership in conflict: Crossing borders in Myanmar

ELISABETH OLIVIUS AND JENNY HEDSTRÖM

4 Building inclusive young women’s leadership in the Pacific: Spaces for change

JANE ALVER

5 "There’s space for both": Young women and intergenerational leadership in Papua New Guinea

CERIDWEN SPARK, BARBRA THOMAS, AND TAIT BRIMACOMBE

6 Young women in UN peace and security policy: At risk or in the lead?

KAREN BROWN

Conclusion

LESLEY PRUITT AND KATRINA LEE-KOO

Index

Biography

Katrina Lee-Koo is Associate Professor of International Relations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-author of Children and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Ethics and Global Security (Routledge, 2014).

Lesley Pruitt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of Youth Peacebuilding: Music, Gender, and Change (State University of New York Press, 2013) and The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing & the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit (University of California Press, 2016).