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Re-Gendering Stories of Success: John Wooden and Pat Summitt’s Post Gender Leadership Narrative

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2016
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This thesis enters a journey of inquiry to investigate how self-help leadership manuals are subject to patriarchal influences. Specifically, I analyze two self-help leadership biographies in this thesis, Wooden On Leadership by John Wooden and Steve Jamison and Reach For The Summit: The Definite Dozen System For Succeeding At Whatever You Do by Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins. Both leadership manuals implicate cultural conceptions of gender. Wooden’s text exemplifies ways in which traditional masculine gender roles can infiltrate leadership manuals and Summitt’s text portrays masculine and feminine gender negotiations as a prerequisite for success. This project also contains a survey of literature on leadership studies as a whole as well as gender studies and applications of both gender and various leadership styles. This analysis of these two biographical accounts of leadership is initiated through feminist rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism.
Title: Re-Gendering Stories of Success: John Wooden and Pat Summitt’s Post Gender Leadership Narrative.
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Name(s): Cohen, Cody Evan, author
Heidt, Stephen, Thesis advisor
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Created: 2016
Date Issued: 2016
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 103 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis enters a journey of inquiry to investigate how self-help leadership manuals are subject to patriarchal influences. Specifically, I analyze two self-help leadership biographies in this thesis, Wooden On Leadership by John Wooden and Steve Jamison and Reach For The Summit: The Definite Dozen System For Succeeding At Whatever You Do by Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins. Both leadership manuals implicate cultural conceptions of gender. Wooden’s text exemplifies ways in which traditional masculine gender roles can infiltrate leadership manuals and Summitt’s text portrays masculine and feminine gender negotiations as a prerequisite for success. This project also contains a survey of literature on leadership studies as a whole as well as gender studies and applications of both gender and various leadership styles. This analysis of these two biographical accounts of leadership is initiated through feminist rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism.
Identifier: FA00004725 (IID)
Degree granted: Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Includes bibliography.
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