girls exercise two, collective actions
LISTENING FOR LEADERSHIP
For each story, answer the following questions: What are the various good, virtuous qualities women display? How do women make men do what they want? How do they use their bodies, and how do they use their intellect to effect what they want? What do women do (or what happens to them) after they have succeeded in achieving their aims?
How do communities commemorate the brave actions of their women? What do those memorials tell us about how women’s actions were viewed?
Leadership is almost always thought of in terms of individuals. Can we talk about groups as leaders? Do they have the same qualities as individual leaders? Are there still individual in charge of the collective actions Plutarch records? Or do these stories not really address the issue of leadership?