Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Six Women Scholars in the Framing of Social Theory and Social Change Chapter 3 Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson "New Age Policy Advocate" Chapter 4 La Francis Rodgers-Rose "Myth Buster: The Science of Mass Appeal" Chapter 5 Joyce A. Ladner "Seeing the Glass Half Full and Other Racial Notions" Chapter 6 Doris Wilkinson "Fighting Words: The Creative Intellect as Weapon" Chapter 7 Delores P. Aldridge "The Wisdom of the Humanist Whole" Chapter 8 Vivian V. Gordon "Self Defining as Fundamental" Chapter 9 Common Intellectual Threads of Those Who Dare "Imagine..." Chapter 10 Summary Part 11 Bibliography Part 12 Index

About the Author

Delores P. Aldridge is the Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Emory University. Professor Aldridge received her Ph.D. from Purdue University. She is a Phi Beta Kappa trained sociologist and clinical social worker, civil rights activist, and is the recipient of more than 100 awards in her field.