Description
Book SynopsisProfiles women in the most highly visible political offices, highlighting their communication strategies. This book compares women's and men's political communication techniques and includes lists of the women governmental leaders of the twentieth and the twenty-first century. It seeks to lay out innovative approaches to leadership.
Trade ReviewThis volume extends Mayhead and Marshall's edited volume, Navigating Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Women Governors. Recommended. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 A Space for Discourse Chapter 4 2 Echoes from the Pioneers: Women's Political Voices in the Twentieth Century Chapter 5 3 Discourse from "A Woman's Place": Twenty-first-Century Rhetoric in the U.S. House of Representatives Chapter 6 4 Strangers No More: The Discourse of Twenty-first-Century Women in the U.S. Senate Chapter 7 5 Voices from All Directions: Women's Discourse in the Twenty-first-Century State House Chapter 8 Conclusion Chapter 9 Afterword Chapter 10 Appendix A: Women in the U.S. House: Twentieth Century Chapter 11 Appendix B: Women in the U.S. House: Twenty-first Century Chapter 12 Appendix C: Women in the U.S. Senate: Twentieth Century Chapter 13 Appendix D: Women in the U.S. Senate: Twenty-first Century Chapter 14 Appendix E: Women Governors: Twentieth Century Chapter 15 Appendix F: Women Governors: Twenty-first Century Chapter 16 References Chapter 17 Index Chapter 18 About the Authors
