Women, Power, and Ethnicity: Working Toward Reciprocal Empowerment

You don't have to act like a man to be powerful! Have women adopted traditionally male patterns of behavior in an effort to gain and maintain power in business, industry, politics, academics, etc.? And if not, what kind of power are women practicing? The authors of Women, Power, and Ethnicity endeavored to find out by conducting a research study on how women from various racial and ethnic backgrounds compare and contrast the attributes associated with existing power paradigms (traditional, empowerment, personal authority) with an alternate model of power -- reciprocal empowerment. Women, Power, and Ethnicity examines women's attitudes toward power in several social forums -- home, job, religion, politics, and society in general. As women continue to assume positions of social leadership in increasing numbers, the dynamics of the social construction of power need to be examined. Book jacket.