Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
Theory
Africa and the Middle East
Asia
EuropeThe Americas
Conclusion
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Profiles 22 women who have held the top positions of political leadership around the world.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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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