Transnational feminist rhetorics and gendered leadership in global politics : from daughters of destiny to iron ladies

Transnational feminist rhetorics and gendered leadership in global politics : from daughters of destiny to iron ladies / Rebecca S. Richards.

This project analyzes how political women rhetorically perform-discursively, visually, and physically-their positions of power and how these performances are read, time again, against and with other women who have held similar positions in different geopolitical locations.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richards, Rebecca S., 1978-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Series:Cultural studies/pedagogy/activism.
Subjects:
Women heads of state.
Women politicians.
Communication in politics.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Feminism.
feminism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Communication in politics
Feminism
Rhetoric > Political aspects
Women heads of state
Women politicians
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Rebecca Dingo
  • Confronting the doxa of the nation-state: transnational rhetorics and women world leaders
  • Daughters of destiny: narrations of the nation-state in autobiographies of women world leaders
  • Rewriting public histories: political women, embodied mimicry, and the biopic
  • Access denied: creating a corporate rhetor for women world leaders
  • Will the real "iron lady" please stand up?: Cyborgian politics from Margaret Thatcher to Hillary Clinton
  • Appendixes: A. List of women world leaders
  • B. Brief biographical information of political women in this book.

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