Feminists among us : resistance and advocacy in library leadership / edited by Shirley Lew and Baharak Yousefi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Always a Novice: Feminist Learning and Leadership Practice; Creating a Path to Feminist Leadership; A Feminist Critique of Servant Leadership; Embracing the Feminization of Librarianship; On the Disparity Between What We Say and What We Do in Libraries; How We Speak, How We Think, What We Do: Leading Intersectional Feminist Conversations in Libraries; One Library, Two Cultures; Feminist Praxis in Library Leadership; A Feminist Among Us: An Interview with Chris Bourg; About the Contributors; Index

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership makes explicit the ways in which a grounding in feminist theory and practice impacts the work of library administrators who identify as feminists. Recent scholarship by LIS researchers and practitioners on the intersections of gender with sexuality, race, class, and other social categories within libraries and other information environments have highlighted the need and desire of this community to engage with these concepts both in theory and praxis. Feminists Among Us adds to this conversation by focusing on a subset of feminist LIS professionals and researchers in leadership roles who engage critically with both management work and librarianship. By collecting these often implicit professional acts, interactions, and dynamics and naming them as explicitly feminist, these accounts both document aspects of an existing community of practice as well as invite fellow feminists, advocates, and resisters to consider library leadership as a career path. -- from back cover.

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