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In 1995, while still First Lady, Hillary Clinton made a groundbreaking speech in Beijing, setting down a challenge to world leaders: to treat women's rights as human rights. She highlighted abuses including young girls sold into slavery; women raped as a tool of war; and lack of education for girls. Since then, three women - Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice and of course Clinton herself - have done one of the world's most powerful jobs, as U.S....
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"Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to our understanding of the cultural construction of boundaries between public and private. Historians and feminists will pursue for some time her questions about the process and consequences of excluding women from the public arena and their striving for participation in it."--Lee Chambers-Schiller, "American Historical Review" -- "An extremely important contribution...
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"In Women and Rhetoric between the Wars, editors Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepernick have gathered together insightful essays from major scholars on women whose practices and theories helped shape the field of modern rhetoric. Examining the period between World War I and World War II, this volume sheds light on the forgotten rhetorical work done by the women of that time. It also goes beyond recovery to develop new methodologies for...
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This program with Bill Moyers looks at the rising number of women on the political scene and their impressions of politics. Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, former Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin, Senator Carol Moseley Braun, and other female politicians talk about the challenges women candidates face, describe their experiences in male bastions of power, why it's important for women to participate in politics, and what women bring to governing our nation....
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A new perspective on leadership / In the spirit of the times : Three generation s of women leaders / Becoming leaders: Key influences and experiences / The com mon thread: a passion for justice and social change / Leadership for change: in itiatives and outcomes / Key skills and strategies of leaders / Strains and cos ts of leadership / Learning from the past and looking toward the future / A lea dership legacy, a leadership resource.
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"Cutter argues that "redemptive womanhood"--The idea that women hold active responsibility for the nation's moral and religious health - is the key element of gender ideology in antebellum and Civil War America. In this era, society for the first time allowed and encouraged women's involvement in the public sphere, as long as it was done for the good of the country. The idea of redemptive womanhood prepared women to go to any lengths to defend their...
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