In a world where leaders and organizations face global pandemics and power conflicts, gender dualism still prevails, and gender stereotyping and the glass ceiling continue to affect humanity's conceptualizations of leadership. How can we integrate the lost aspects of ourselves, often socialized by gender, so as to recover wholeness? How can we discern and develop the feminine and masculine within every leader? Servant-Leadership, Feminism, and Gender Well-Being offers grace, strength, and hope by providing evidence of servant-leaders crossing gender boundaries and integrating gendered traits and behaviors. Feminist ways of knowing, honoring both feminine and masculine giftedness, deepen the holistic foundation of servant-leadership. By integrating female perspectives with male perspectives, a paradigm shift in leadership theory through avenues inherent to servant-leadership can move organizations from hierarchy-driven, rules-based, and authoritative models to value-driven, follower-oriented, and participative models.

List of IllustrationsForeword: Servant-Leadership and EqualityLarry C. SpearsPreface: Servant-Leadership: A Holistic LifeJiying Song and Shann Ray FerchIntroduction: Servant-Leadership and Breaking Free of Gendered CategorizationsJoe Walsh, Kae Reynolds, and Jennifer Tilghman-HavensSection I: The Feminist Essence of Servant-Leadership1. The Poetry of Servant-Leadership: I Walked This EarthPatricia Valdés2. The Poetry of Servant-Leadership: You Like to Fly at Night . . . Nadine Chapman3. Servant-Leadership: A Feminist PerspectiveKae Reynolds4. Servant First or Survival First? How Servant-Leaders Lead during COVID-19Jiying Song5. The Women's Project-A Power Balance Issue in the Core of a Spanish Feminist Organization: A Case Study Inquiry through the Lens of Servant-Leadership and FeminismCarla Penha-Vasconcelos6. Eros and Logos: Servant-Leadership, Feminism, Poetry, and the Critical Unities of Gender Well-BeingShann Ray Ferch7. The Will to (Share) Power: Privilege, Possibility, and the Servant-LeaderJennifer Tilghman-HavensSection II: The Courageous Wholeness of Servant-Leadership8. Do Women Stand Back to Move Forward? Gender Differences in Top US Business Leaders' Messages of Servant-LeadershipKae Reynolds9. A Poetics of Servant-LeadershipNadine Chapman10. He Named Me Malala: Malala's Voice, Vision, and LeadershipCarla Penha-Vasconcelos11. An Evaluation of Moonlight's Intersectional Pedagogy: How Does Identity Affect Leadership?Matthew Williams12. The Leadership Philosophy of Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933)Judy I. Caldwell and Carolyn Crippen13. Can I Be Fearless? Margaret Wheatley14. Prophetic Story Weaving and Truth Telling: On the Road to Servant-Leadership in Smoke SignalsErin DavisSection III: The Spiritual Beauty of Servant-Leadership15. Selma: An Exploration of the Womanist Lens and the Servant-Leader Carmen dela Cruz16. Servant-Leadership: A Brief Look at Love and the Organizational Perspective Kathleen Patterson17. Clara Voce-The Greeting of Heart and Spirit Marcia Newman18. Spiritual Capital: Keynote Address, 2005 International Servant-Leadership Conference Danah Zohar19. Modesty in Leadership: A Study of the Level-Five Leader Lucia M. Hamilton and Charlotte M. Knoche20. Servant-Leadership as a Cornerstone for Restoration of Human Dignity José Hernández21. Greenleaf 's Servant-Leadership and Quakerism: A Nexus Carolyn CrippenSection IV: The Art and Science of Servant-Leadership22. The Significance of Foresight in Vision and Narrative Leadership Lyna M. Matesi23. Exploring the Intersection of Servant-Leadership and Interpersonal Neurobiology: Hope for Deep-Rooted Mental and Behavioral TransformationFaith Renae Regh Gilbert24. Vision and Poetry Nadine Chapman25. The Poetry of Servant-Leadership: What Is This Passion for Journey Nadine Chapman26. The Poetry of Servant-Leadership: They Patricia ValdésAbout the EditorsContributorsIndex