Twentieth-century women political leaders

Author

Claire Price-Groff

Call Number

• 301.412 P945 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Facts on file, c1998.

Physical Description

xvii, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Presents biographies of twelve women who have held positions of political leadership around the world, including Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Winnie Mandela, Corazon Aquino, Wilma Mankiller, and Benazir Bhutto.

Contents

• Golda Meir of Irael (1898-1978)
• Indira Gandhi of India (1917-1984)
• Eva Duarte Perón of Argentina (1919-1952)
• Margaret Thatcher of Britain (1925- )
• Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua (1929- )
• Corazon Aquinio of the Philippines (1933- )
• Winni Madikizela-Mandela of South Africa (1934- )
• Barbara Jordan of Texas (1936-1996)
• Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway (1939- )
• Wilma Mankiller of the Cherokee Nation (1945- )-- Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma (1945- )
• Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan (1953-).