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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.
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.
Networking Arguments presents an original study on the use and
misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these
practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a
feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that
rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally, and how itAEs
often reconfigured to work both for and against women and to
maintain existing power structures. To see how rhetorics travel,
Dingo deconstructs the central terminology employed by global
institutions-mainstreaming, fitness, and empowerment-and shows how
their meanings shift depending on the contexts in which theyAEre
used. She studies programs by the World Bank, the United Nations,
and the United States, among others, to view the original policies,
then follows the trail of their diffusion and manipulation and the
ultimate consequences for individuals. To analyze transnational
rhetorical processes, Dingo builds a theoretical framework by
employing concepts of transcoding, ideological traffic, and
interarticulation to uncover the intricacies of power relationships
at work within networks. She also views transnational capitalism,
neoliberal economics, and neocolonial ideologies as primary
determinants of policy and arguments over womenAEs roles in the
global economy. Networking Arguments offers a new method of
feminist rhetorical analysis that allows for an increased
understanding of global gender policies and encourages strategies
to counteract the negative effects they can create.
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