"By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eager to assume her place alongside Harlem's famous, influential and intriguing residents," Ms. Bundles reports.
In some cultures like Mediterranean, Eastern European, Latin American, and South Asian cultures, it's not-this is where males are often the aggressors and they tend to view assertive females as a threat.
But the criticisms of Obama also represent something deeper and more lasting: an increasingly assertive Israel that views itself as justified in its actions, besieged by international critics, and capable of following its own course without having to seek approval.
It brought out rather an assertive element and a view that with the growing problems in the NHS you have to stake your claim and demand your rights to care.
The world-view of assertive nationalists (notably Dick Cheney, the vice-president, and Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence), who say military might will be enough to deter America's enemies, has not been dethroned.
Born in 1947 and active since the mid-seventies, Holl is viewed as assertive by people who are trying to be complimentary, and as a bull in a china shop by people who aren't.
All four subjects are dealing head-on with imposed conditions, but each is shaping her response to them in ways that are simultaneously assertive and protective: shaping a view of herself that, like a wig, helps to create a new identity but also hides an old one.
Sandberg's book Lean In teaches women to be assertive at work and home, view "bossiness" as a virtue not a flaw, and ask for the responsibility and compensation their hard work merits.
