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Article: Leading Ladies: Transformative Biblical Images for Women's Leadership.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
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- April 1, 2004
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Leading Ladies: Transformative Biblical Images for Women's Leadership. By Jeanne Porter. Philadelphia: Innisfree Press, 2000. 158 pages. Paper. $13.95.
Jeanne Porter, a professor in the area of leadership at North Park University and in the African American Leadership program at McCormick Theological Seminary, offers fresh new views of biblical leadership, especially for women. The premise of this book, which grew out of a series of workshops and lectures offered in several denominations and various settings, is that "many women are leaders whether they are named as leaders or not" (p. 13). To assist women in naming and claiming their leadership style she uses ...