Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2016

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Heidt, Stephen

Abstract

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.

Extent

103 p.

Comments

Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.

Identifier

FA00004725

Format

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