Tables and Figures Preface Introduction Theory Africa and the Middle East Asia EuropeThe Americas Conclusion Appendix Selected Bibliography Index
Profiles 22 women who have held the top positions of political leadership around the world.
Gunhild Hoogensen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromso in Norway. Bruce O. Solheim is Professor of History at Citrus College in Glendora, California.
Some can attribute their accession to authority to decades of
political struggle. Others can point to a lifelong commitment to
supporting tradition, albeit with a bit of difference in their
cases. Some hold power through faith, others through family. Yet
one significant element in these 22 leaders is the same: they are
all women. Hodgensen and Solheim examine the lives and work of
women from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas
from the 1960s onward, analyzing their political and social impact
as politicians, agents of change, and role models. They also
provide an analysis of differing theories about women's leadership
and feminist theories and describe potential candidates for the US
presidency at theoretical and practical levels.
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Women in Power covers the obstacles as well as the advantages these
women faced and offers insights into our societies' structures with
regard to the power relations between men and women. It also
considers differing theories of women's leadership and feminism
around the world.
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