Rebecca Richards is assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College.

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics offers an important contribution to and promises to spark new conversations about transnational feminist and rhetorical scholarship. Richards demonstrates a distinctive ability to sustain and focus on the potential of the discourses and practices of women world leaders to serve as radical departures from the assumptions about leadership in and across nation-state contexts, as well as re-instantiations of neoliberal logics underpinning the nation-state. Richards moves elegantly from the narratives of power produced by and about individuals to collective considerations of political women in order to identify structures and strategies that frame and promote the naturalness or inevitability of women leaders, and the public histories they animate in transnational contexts.

• Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Confronting the Doxa of the Nation-State: Transnational Rhetorics and Women World Leaders Chapter 2. Daughters of Destiny: Narrations of the Nation-State in Autobiographies of Women World Leaders Chapter 3. Rewriting Public Histories: Political Women, Embodied Mimicry, and the Biopic Chapter 4. Access Denied: Creating a Corporate Rhetor for Women World Leaders Chapter 5. Will the Real “Iron Lady” Please Stand Up?: Cyborgian Politics from Margaret Thatcher to Hillary Clinton Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A. List of Women World Leaders Appendix B. Brief Biographical Information of Political Women in this BookBibliography Index About the author

Rebecca Richards is assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College.

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics offers an important contribution to and promises to spark new conversations about transnational feminist and rhetorical scholarship. Richards demonstrates a distinctive ability to sustain and focus on the potential of the discourses and practices of women world leaders to serve as radical departures from the assumptions about leadership in and across nation-state contexts, as well as re-instantiations of neoliberal logics underpinning the nation-state. Richards moves elegantly from the narratives of power produced by and about individuals to collective considerations of political women in order to identify structures and strategies that frame and promote the naturalness or inevitability of women leaders, and the public histories they animate in transnational contexts.

• Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Confronting the Doxa of the Nation-State: Transnational Rhetorics and Women World Leaders Chapter 2. Daughters of Destiny: Narrations of the Nation-State in Autobiographies of Women World Leaders Chapter 3. Rewriting Public Histories: Political Women, Embodied Mimicry, and the Biopic Chapter 4. Access Denied: Creating a Corporate Rhetor for Women World Leaders Chapter 5. Will the Real “Iron Lady” Please Stand Up?: Cyborgian Politics from Margaret Thatcher to Hillary Clinton Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A. List of Women World Leaders Appendix B. Brief Biographical Information of Political Women in this BookBibliography Index About the author

Rebecca Richards is assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College.

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics offers an important contribution to and promises to spark new conversations about transnational feminist and rhetorical scholarship. Richards demonstrates a distinctive ability to sustain and focus on the potential of the discourses and practices of women world leaders to serve as radical departures from the assumptions about leadership in and across nation-state contexts, as well as re-instantiations of neoliberal logics underpinning the nation-state. Richards moves elegantly from the narratives of power produced by and about individuals to collective considerations of political women in order to identify structures and strategies that frame and promote the naturalness or inevitability of women leaders, and the public histories they animate in transnational contexts.

• Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Confronting the Doxa of the Nation-State: Transnational Rhetorics and Women World Leaders Chapter 2. Daughters of Destiny: Narrations of the Nation-State in Autobiographies of Women World Leaders Chapter 3. Rewriting Public Histories: Political Women, Embodied Mimicry, and the Biopic Chapter 4. Access Denied: Creating a Corporate Rhetor for Women World Leaders Chapter 5. Will the Real “Iron Lady” Please Stand Up?: Cyborgian Politics from Margaret Thatcher to Hillary Clinton Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A. List of Women World Leaders Appendix B. Brief Biographical Information of Political Women in this BookBibliography Index About the author