The past two decades have seen an increase in the number of women serving in high-level political positions in countries throughout the world. The papers in this volume will look at corpus-based data (cf. Charteris-Black 2004, 2005) from a wide variety of countries and use contrastive linguistic analyses to determine to what extent the conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differs with, or remains the same as that of men (who have previously served or who are currently serving with them) and what effect this has on women's and men's power in the political arena and in society. Some relevant issues are: To what extent do politicians use conceptual metaphors to exclude or include women? How do women and men reframe conceptual metaphors to strengthen one's position or weaken an opponent's? How are novel conceptual metaphors employed to reshape perceptions of an individual or an issue? How do men and women use conceptual metaphors differently (i.e. What lexemes do women use from the source domain of WAR as compared with men?) Data from all countries are welcomed; however, researchers that focus on non-English speaking nations are particularly encouraged to submit. (Kathleen Ahrens)