Table of contents
Discourse, politics and women
Part I. Discursive features of leadership
Chapter 1. “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”: Margaret Thatcher and the discourse of leadership
Chapter 2. Breaking the glass & keeping the ceiling: Women presidents’ discursive practices in Latin America
Chapter 3. Under fire: Pronominal use and leadership in the discourse of Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Part II. Discourse, media and power
Chapter 4. Twitter as political discourse: The case of Sarah Palin
Chapter 5. Gender and political discourse in Tunisia
Chapter 6. Julia Gillard: A murderous rage
Chapter 7. Women in politics and the media: The discursive construction of collaboration for female leadership in Cameroon
Part III. Leadership, identity and the public
Chapter 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
Chapter 9. Governors debating: The role of situational, discourse and transportable identities
Chapter 10. Discourses of female leaders in postcolonial Hong Kong
Part IV. Styling the leader
Chapter 11. Governing in the gendered structure of power: The media discourse on Angela Merkel and her power-driven leadership style
Chapter 12. The ball is in the women’s court: The portrayal of Finnish women as political leaders in newspapers
Chapter 13. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Media’s “Ma Ellen” or the “Iron Lady” of West Africa? Textual discourse & brand of a leader
Conclusion: Women as political leaders: What now?
About the authors
Index
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