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Women heads of state --- Knox, John,

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En raison de la loi salique, les femmes ont été écartées du trône sous l'Ancien-régime avant que la privation du suffrage universel ne les marginalise de la Révolution à la Libération. Mais la France n'est pas le monde et des dirigeantes d'exception n'ont cessé d'enrichir le riche livre d'heures de notre histoire de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Sous la direction d'Anne Fulda, historiens et journalistes racontent leurs vies exceptionnelles en s'attachant non seulement à dresser leurs portraits politiques et intimes mais aussi et surtout à ausculter pour la première fois leur façon d'exercer le pouvoir au quotidien et dans la gestion des grandes crises qu'elles ont su souvent gérer d'une main de maître. Un livre sans précédent qui détruit pour de bon le mythe d'une supposée prédisposition des hommes dans la gestion des affaires publiques.

Women heads of state. --- Women --- Political activity --- History.

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Queens --- Women heads of state --- Biography. --- Islamic countries. --- Islamic Empire --- Kings and rulers --- Biography.

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The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, arresting and torturing people by the tens of thousands, razing slums, and imposing compulsory sterilization on the poor. Emergency Chronicles provides the first comprehensive account of this understudied episode in India's modern history. Gyan Prakash strips away the comfortable myth that the Emergency was an isolated event brought on solely by Gandhi's desire to cling to power, arguing that it was as much the product of Indian democracy's troubled relationship with popular politics.Drawing on archival records, private papers and letters, published sources, film and literary materials, and interviews with victims and perpetrators, Prakash traces the Emergency's origins to the moment of India's independence in 1947, revealing how the unfulfilled promise of democratic transformation upset the fine balance between state power and civil rights. He vividly depicts the unfolding of a political crisis that culminated in widespread popular unrest, which Gandhi sought to crush by paradoxically using the law to suspend lawful rights. Her failure to preserve the existing political order had lasting and unforeseen repercussions, opening the door for caste politics and Hindu nationalism.Placing the Emergency within the broader global history of democracy, this gripping book offers invaluable lessons for us today as the world once again confronts the dangers of rising authoritarianism and populist nationalism.

Women prime ministers --- Prime ministers --- Women cabinet officers --- Women heads of state --- Gandhi, Indira, --- India --- Politics and government

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