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Madam president
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ISBN: 1315023547 1136705244 1136705171 9781136705175 9780415934329 041593432X 9781136705243 9781136705311 1136705317 9781315023540 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York London

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Weibliche Herrschaft im 18. Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 3839443555 9783839443552 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bielefeld

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Zwei der berühmtesten Herrscherpersönlichkeiten des 18. Jahrhunderts waren Frauen: Maria Theresia von Österreich und Katharina II., die Große, von Russland. Auf den ersten Blick waren sie denkbar unterschiedlich - hier die zwar partiell reformbereite, aber an traditionellen Legitimationsansätzen monarchischer Herrschaft festhaltende Habsburgerin, dort die dezidiert aufklärerische geborene Prinzessin von Anhalt-Zerbst. Der Band nimmt erstmals die beiden Kaiserinnen vergleichend in den Blick und zeigt, dass sie sich in einigen Bereichen mit durchaus ähnlichen Herausforderungen konfrontiert sahen und dass ihre Lösungsansätze bei allen Differenzen auch manche Gemeinsamkeiten aufwiesen.


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Women as global leaders
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ISBN: 9781623969660 1623969662 9781623969646 1623969646 9781623969653 1623969654 Year: 2015 Publisher: Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc.,


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Impératrices, princesses, aristocrates et saintes souveraines : De l’Orient chrétien et musulman au Moyen Âge et au début des Temps modernes
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ISSN: 1631946X ISBN: 9782853999014 2853999017 9791036561450 Year: 2020 Volume: *73 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence : Presses universitaires de Provence,

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Cet ouvrage est consacré aux souveraines et aux aristocrates de l’Orient méditerranéen à l’époque médiévale. Il s’inscrit dans les recherches actuelles sur l’étude des femmes comme « genre ». La symbolique chrétienne se fonde sur l’iconographie des églises où sont représentées comme modèles les saintes souveraines et martyres des premiers siècles alors que l’historiographie témoigne d’impératrices confrontées au pouvoir, usant de leur beauté et d’artifices, telle Théophano au Xe siècle soupçonnée du meurtre de ses deux premiers époux. On pénètre jusqu’au fond du gynécée là où s’ourdissent les complots, où rivalisent la reine mère et sa belle-fille, là aussi où s’éduquent les enfants impériaux pour lesquels leur mère est appelée à la régence lors de la mort de son époux. Certaines impératrices ont une renommée supérieure à d’autres, telle Zoé représentée sur les mosaïques de Sainte-Sophie à laquelle le peuple de Constantinople voue une réelle ferveur en lui pardonnant ses frasques sexuelles et ses divertissements de magicienne. D’autres impératrices viennent de l’étranger, de Savoie ou de Serbie et elles savent s’imposer dans l’échiquier géopolitique troublé des XIVe et XVe siècles, parfois jusqu’à causer des guerres civiles, toujours en protectrices et conseillères de leurs fils. Léguer l’impérium, voilà qui est étranger aux épouses et filles de souverains ottomans qui n’hésitent pas à contracter des mariages avec des princesses byzantines. Toute l’aristocratie féminine gravite autour de la cour, les princesses rivalisent de piété et de générosité, qu’elles soient byzantines, arméniennes ou timourides, mais aussi de faste. Fortunées, mécènes dans le domaine artistique et religieux, fondatrices, commanditaires de reliquaires et de manuscrits enluminés…la liste de ces dames de la haute société couvre l’Europe, l’Asie occidentale et centrale…


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Transnational feminist rhetorics and gendered leadership in global politics : from daughters of destiny to iron ladies
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ISBN: 0739198270 0739198262 9780739198261 9780739198254 0739198254 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books,

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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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Women of power : half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide
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ISBN: 1447315804 1447315790 9781447315797 9781447316374 1447316371 9781447315889 144731588X 9781447315780 9781447315803 1447315782 9781447315780 1336194766 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bristol : The Policy Press,

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This unique book presents all 73 female presidents and prime ministers from around the world, from 1960 (when the first was elected) to 2010, through a series of fascinating case studies that discuss the motives, achievements and life stories of these women of power.


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Female monarchs and merchant queens in Africa
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ISBN: 0821440802 0821424076 9780821440803 9780821424070 Year: 2020 Publisher: Athens, Ohio

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"In this unapologetically African-centered monograph, Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies. From Amma to the goddess inkosazana, Sobekneferu to Nzingha, Nehanda to Ahebi Ugbabe, Omu Okwei, and the daughters or umuada of Igboland, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa documents the worlds and life histories of elite African females, female principles, and (wo)men of privilege. Chronologically and by theme, Achebe pieces together the worlds and experiences of African females from African-derived sources, especially language. Achebe explores the meaning and significance of names, metaphors, symbolism, cosmology, chronicles, songs, folktales, proverbs, oral traditions, traditions of creation, and more. From centralized to small-scale egalitarian societies, patrilineal to matrilineal systems, North Africa to sub-Saharan lands, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa offers an unparalleled history of the remarkable African women who occupied positions of power, authority, and influence"--


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Strategic Imaginations : Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture
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ISBN: 9789462702479 9789461663504 9789461663511 9462702470 946166351X 9461663501 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leuven Leuven University Press

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What is the gender of political power? Since the beginning of political thought, rule has been a male prerogative in European imagination. This is of course not to say that there never were women sovereigns. In-depth studies of women sovereigns have grown considerably in number in the past three decades and have added substantially to our understanding of the complexities of their rule of power.0Yet what is often obscured by such in-depth analyses is the fact that all women rulers throughout the entirety of European cultural history have had to operate in a context that could not think of power as female - except in grotesque terms. This continuity, as this book demonstrates, can only be brought out by studying women?s political rule comparatively and in the longue duree.0This collection of essays brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modern democracy. It demonstrates how the strategies and imagination women rulers adopted against the backdrop of an all-pervasive scepticism toward female rule are comparable across regions and periods. To illustrate its point, this book not only addresses historical figures and queens, but also takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history.


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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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ISBN: 082144560X 9780821445600 9780821422212 0821422219 Year: 2016 Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press,

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In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15. Charting her childhood and adolescence, the book covers Sirleaf's relationship with her indigenous grandmother and urban parents, her early marriage, her years studying in the United States, and her career in international development and finance, where she developed her skill as a technocrat. The later chapters cover her years in and out of formal Liberian politics, her support for women's rights, and the Ebola outbreak. Sirleaf's story speaks to many of the key themes of the twenty-first century. Among these are the growing power of women in the arenas of international politics and human rights; the ravaging civil wars in which sexual violence is used as a weapon; and the challenges of transitional justice in building postconflict societies. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is an astute examination of the life of a pioneering feminist politician.

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Women presidents --- Presidents --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Women heads of state --- Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen, --- Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson --- Liberia --- Dēmokratia tēs Liverias --- Gweriniaeth Liberia --- IGNU (Liberia) --- Interim Government of National Unity (Liberia) --- Komara Lîberyayê --- Labiriyaa --- Laibeer --- Libearia --- Libeeria --- Libeeria Vabariik --- Libeïa --- Libéir --- Libèiria --- Liberi --- Libériai Köztársaság --- Liberiako Errepublika --- Liberië --- Liberii︠a︡ --- Liberii︠a︡ respublika --- Liberija --- Libērijas Republika --- Liberijos Respublika --- Liberio --- Liberiya --- Liberiya Respublikası --- Liberja --- Liberya --- Liberyah --- Liberyi︠a︡ --- Libiliya --- Libirya --- Liveria --- Lýðveldið Líbería --- Pobblaght ny Laibeer --- Poblachd Libèiria --- Reppubliek Liberië --- Repubblica di Liberia --- Republic of Liberia --- Republica de Liberia --- Republiek Liberia --- Republiek van Liberië --- Republik Liberia --- Republika Liberii︠a︡ --- Republika Liberija --- Republiḳat Liberyah --- Republíki ya Liberia --- République du Liberia --- Riberia --- Riberia Kyōwakoku --- Tlācatlahtohcāyōtl Liberia --- Δημοκρατια της Λιβεριας --- Λιβερία --- Република Либерия --- Република Либерија --- Либери --- Либерия --- Либерия республика --- Либерија --- Ліберыя --- רפובליקת ליבריה --- ליבריה --- リベリア --- リベリア共和国 --- 利比里亚 --- Politics and government

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