Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global
Politics examines the rhetoric surrounding women who hold or have
held the highest office of a nation-state. Heads of state, such as
Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf, and Michelle Bachelet, have navigated their ascent to
executive government in vastly different ways while contending with
gendered expectations of leadership, especially since most of them
are the first woman to occupy their country's highest governmental
position. This book analyzes how these women rhetorically perform
their positions of power-discursively, visually, and physically-in
a traditionally male leadership role. Specifically, this project
examines how certain rhetorical acts open up and close down the
potential to confront the gendered expectations surrounding
political leadership. When people analyze, campaign for, or
critique a "female prime minister" or a "woman president," they are
not just talking about one woman but also referencing a collective
neoliberal logic that interrupts and reaffirms the belief that the
nation-state is an eternal, inevitable structure. Diverse political
figures, such as Angela Merkel, Julia Gillard, and Indira Gandhi,
are continually put in conversation with one another, through
popular media representations, academic scholarship, and political
analyses. This book examines the effect of such comparisons and
connections, ultimately arguing that many of these gestures reduce
or over-simplify women's contributions to world politics. In order
to show this effect, this book manifests the transnational
connections found in autobiographies, organizations, political
commentaries, biographical films, and other sources that focus on
women who have been heads of state.
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