Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Discursive features of leadership
  • ch. 1 "Why can't a woman be more like a man?": Margaret Thatcher and the discourse of leadership / Anthea Irwin
  • ch. 2 Breaking the glass & keeping the ceiling: Women presidents' discursive practices in Latin America / Diana Boxer
  • ch. 3 Under fire: Pronominal use and leadership in the discourse of Helle Thorning-Schmidt / Sharon Millar
  • pt. II Discourse, media and power
  • ch. 4 Twitter as political discourse: The case of Sarah Palin / Catherine Evans Davies
  • ch. 5 Gender and political discourse in Tunisia / Raoudha Kammoun
  • ch. 6 Julia Gillard: A murderous rage / Roslyn Appleby
  • ch. 7 Women in politics and the media: The discursive construction of collaboration for female leadership in Cameroon / Alexandre T. Djimeli
  • pt. III Leadership, identity and the public
  • ch. 8 "Thank you for heckling me": Hillary Rodham Clinton's discursive management of her public persona, her political message and the "Iron my shirt!" hecklers in the 2008 presidential election campaign / Amy Sheldon
  • ch. 9 Governors debating: The role of situational, discourse and transportable identities / Karen L. Adams
  • ch. 10 Discourses of female leaders in postcolonial Hong Kong / Doreen Wu
  • pt. IV Styling the leader
  • ch. 11 Governing in the gendered structure of power: The media discourse on Angela Merkel and her power-driven leadership style / Tanja Maier
  • ch. 12 ball is in the women's court: The portrayal of Finnish women as political leaders in newspapers / Iiris Ruoho
  • ch. 13 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Media's "Ma Ellen" or the "Iron Lady" of West Africa? Textual discourse & brand of leader / Lennie M. Jones
  • Conclusion: Women as political leaders: What now? / Diana Boxer.