Chapter 1: Chile: President Michelle Bachelet
Chapter 2: Liberia: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Malawi:
President Joyce Banda; and Central African Republic: President
Catherine Samba-Panza
Chapter 3: India: President Pratibha Patil
Chapter 4: Pakistan: Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
Chapter 5: Burma: Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Chapter 6: Norway: Prime Ministers Gro Harlem Brundtland and Erna
Solberg
Chapter 7: Lithuania: President Dalia Grybauskaite
Chapter 8: USA: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Conclusion: Global Voices of Value in a Contemporary World
Julia A. Spiker is professor in the School of Communication at The University of Akron.
Julia A. Spiker makes a significant contribution with Empowering
Women: Global Voices of Rhetorical Influence, because,
sadly so often the voices of women leaders are not heard, let
alone examined and interpreted. In this volume, Spiker
does that and more. She creates understanding for the great
value of women’s voices within a global political rhetorical
communication context. By sharing the rhetoric of elite political
leaders, the author invites the reader to learn more about these
women, and, as more and more women step into political arenas
globally, understanding the obstacles and opportunities that women
face on their road to empowerment, by listening to their own words,
is invaluable.
*Nichola D. Gutgold, Penn State University*
Julia A. Spiker’s study uses a subtle but illuminating theoretical
framework to study the rhetoric of global women leaders. The
rhetorical portraits she offers are, however, the highlight of the
book. They are rich in detail, and they cover most continents.
Spiker, while acknowledging that the situations faced by women and
women in politics vary from culture to culture, succeeds in
assembling a global rhetoric of empowerment shared, in their
individual ways, by the women she has chosen to study. Spiker’s
case studies set a model for others studying women in global
politics to follow, and her definition of a shared rhetoric of
empowerment provides others with a quite useful starting point in
furthering our understanding and appreciation of what women have
achieved in government throughout the world.
*Theodore Sheckels, Randolph-Macon College*
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