Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics

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.

Rebecca Richards is assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College.

Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Confronting the Doxa of the Nation-State: Transnational Rhetorics and Women World Leaders Chapter 2. Daughters of Destiny: Narrations of the Nation-State in Autobiographies of Women World Leaders Chapter 3. Rewriting Public Histories: Political Women, Embodied Mimicry, and the Biopic Chapter 4. Access Denied: Creating a Corporate Rhetor for Women World Leaders Chapter 5. Will the Real "Iron Lady" Please Stand Up?: Cyborgian Politics from Margaret Thatcher to Hillary Clinton Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A. List of Women World Leaders Appendix B. Brief Biographical Information of Political Women in this Book Bibliography Index About the author