Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-24

Part I - The Age of Enlightened Rule?

pp 25-26

1 - Women's Political Authority in Maria Antonia Walpurgis von Sachsen's Talestris: Königin der Amazonen (Thalestris: Queen of the Amazons, 1763)

pp 27-58

2 - Maxims of Leadership for a Silent Readership: Sophie von La Roche's Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter and Mein Schreibetisch

pp 59-81

3 - Marcus Aurelius, Also for Girls: Discussions on the Best Form of Government in Enlightenment Hamburg

pp 82-96

4 - Dux Femina Facti: Gender, Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature in Marie Antonia of Saxony's Thalestris and Charlotte von Stein's Dido

pp 97-112

5 - Crossing the Front Lines: Female Leadership, Politics, and War in Die Familie Seldorf

pp 113-130

6 - Power Struggles between Women in Schiller's and Jelinek's Works

pp 131-144

Part II - Leadership as Social Activism around 1900

pp 145-146

7 - Age and Purpose: Unmarried Women and Female Agency in the Works of E. Marlitt and Hedwig Dohm

pp 147-164

8 - “Heroism of the Mother”: Women's Rights Pioneer Jeannette Schwerin, Motherlove, and Women's Leadership in German-Speaking Central Europe, 1890–1914

pp 165-183

9 - Strategic Optimism: Bertha von Suttner's Activism for Peace

pp 184-203

10 - Humanizing Socialism: The Feminist Dimension of Rosa Luxemburg's Intellectual Leadership

pp 204-222

Part III - Women and Political Power in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

pp 223-224

11 - Follow-the-Leader: Tracing Male Influence on Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens

pp 225-242

12 - “Leaning In”: The Career Woman as Instrument of Neoliberal Critique

pp 243-261

13 - Change, Persistence, and Contradiction: The Representation of Female Political Leadership in Gendered Media

pp 262-280

14 - Petra Kelly: A Green Leader out of Place?

pp 281-300

15 - “Mama Merkel” and “Mutti-Multikulti”: The Perils of Governing While Female

pp 301-317

16 - Women Leaders in Troubled Times: The Leadership Styles of Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton

pp 318-334

Bibliography

pp 335-372

Notes on the Contributors

pp 373-374

Index

pp 375-392