This book documents the experiences of sixty-one women who
flourished in the ferment of the civil/ethnic/women's rights movements of the
late twentieth century and beyond. While each life is unique, collectively they
demonstrate the benefits gained when a community and a society unleashes and
fosters the potential of women who create, organize, and lead. Conversely, an
undetermined degree of loss may accrue to societies that suppress or discourage
the freedom of women to shape their destinies.
When women come together with a collective intention,...