| Description |
x, 286 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Learning What We Know: The Complexity of Gender in U.S. and Comparative Executive Studies / Janet M. Martin and MaryAnne Borrelli -- 2. The Symbolic Effects of Female Heads of State and Government / Amy C. Alexander and Farida Jalalzai -- 3. President Barack H. Obama and the Rhetoric of Race: Between Responsibility and Respectability / Cory Charles Gooding -- 4. India's Prime Minister: Narendra Modi, Gender, and Governance / Sheetal Chhabria -- Sarah Palin's and Paul Ryan's Vice Presidential Acceptance Speeches: Gender and Partisan Appeals to the Republican Party / MaryAnne Borrelli and Lilly J. GorenII -- 6. The Impact of Presidentas on Political Activity / Catherine Reyes-Housholder and Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer -- 7. U.S. Presidents and LGBT Policy: Leadership, Civil Rights, and Morality Claims, 1977-2015 / Ariella R. Rotramel -- 8. Representation in and by the White House / Karen M. Hult -- 9. The European Union, Executive Politics, and the Women's Movement in Portugal: The Consequences of Europeanization, 1986 to the Present / Daniela F. MeloIII -- 10. The U.S. Presidency and the Aftermath of Revolution: Are Women's Rights Human Rights? / Janet M. Martin -- 11. U.S. Development Policy and Women's Empowerment: Challenging the Foreign-Policy Bureaucracy to Implement Fully Integrated Gender Policy / Georgia Duerst-Lahti -- 12. Presidential Power, Partisan Continuity, and Pro-Women Change in Chile, 2000-2010 / Catherine Reyes-Housholder -- 13. "First Women" and "Women's Posts": Examining the Backgrounds and Credentials of Ministers in Five Presidential Democracies / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. |
| Subject |
Women heads of state.
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Women government executives.
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Women government executives. (OCoLC)fst01177713
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Women heads of state. (OCoLC)fst01177729
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| Added Author |
Martin, Janet M., 1955- editor.
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Borrelli, MaryAnne, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781439913635 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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1439913633 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9781439913642 (paper) (alkaline paper) |
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1439913641 (paper) (alkaline paper) |
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