A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.

Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson

Introduction - Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson
Women's Political Authority in Maria Antonia Walpurgis von Sachsen's Talestris: Königin der Amazonen (Thalestris: Queen of the Amazons, 1763) - Seth Berk
Maxims of Leadership for a Silent Readership: Sophie von La Roche's Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter and Mein Schreibetisch - Margaretmary Daley
Marcus Aurelius, Also for Girls: Discussions on the Best Form of Government in Enlightenment Hamburg - Almut Spalding
Dux Femina Facti: Gender, Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature; Marie Antonia of Saxony's Thalestris and Charlotte von Stein's Dido - Anke Gilleir
Dux Femina Facti: Gender, Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature in Marie Antonia of Saxony's Thalestris and Charlotte von Stein's Dido - Aude Defurne
Crossing the Front Lines: Female Leadership, Politics, and War in Die Familie Seldorf - Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge
Power Struggles between Women in Schiller's and Jelinek's Works - Inge Stephan
Age and Purpose: Unmarried Women and Female Agency in the Works of E. Marlitt and Hedwig Dohm - Lauren Nossett
"Heroism of the Mother": Women's Right's Pioneer Jeannette Schwerin, Motherlove, and Women's Leadership in German-Speaking Central Europe, 1890-1914 - Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker
Strategic Optimism: Bertha von Suttner's Activism for Peace - Elisabeth Krimmer
Humanizing Socialism: The Feminist Dimension of Rosa Luxemburg's Intellectual Leadership - Peter Hudis
Follow-the-Leader: Tracing Male Influence on Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens - Rachel J. Halverson
"Leaning In": The Career Woman as Instrument of Neoliberal Critique - Helga Druxes
Change, Persistence, and Contradiction: The Representation of Female Political Leadership in Gendered Media - Dorothee Beck
Petra Kelly: A Green Leader out of Place? - Stephen Milder and Friederike Brühöfener
"Mama Merkel" and "Mutti-Multikulti": The Perils of Governing While Female - Patricia Anne Simpson
Women Leaders in Troubled Times: The Leadership Styles of Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton - Joyce Marie Mushaben
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index