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One of the founders of the state of Israel, Golda Meir (1898-1978) was Israel's ambassador to the USSR in 1948-49, subsequently served as Israel's Minister of Labor and Foreign Minister, and in 1969 became Israel's fourth Prime Minister. Born to poor and uneducated parents in Kiev as Golda Mabovitz and raised in Milwaukee, she settled in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1917. American Jews of an older generation cherish memories of her as an affable, grandmotherly head of state, a mesmerizing speech maker, a tough negotiator with the likes of Nixon and Kissinger, and as a sort of mother of the Jewish people. However, public memory of her is much more equivocal in Israel, partly due to misogynistic strains in Israeli political culture and to her perceived failures as Prime Minister during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the conflict that arguably led to her resignation and withdrawal from politics. This biography of Golda Meir explores the evolution of her political persona from her teenage years until her death, focusing in particular on her ever-recurring role as the only woman in a room full of male political actors. Pnina Lahav reexamines the story of Golda Meir's early passion for socialist Zionism, her decision to marry early, her separation from husband Morris Meyerson, her decision to leave her children in the care of others in order to pursue her political ambitions, and her conduct first in the Israeli cabinet and then as the country's Prime Minister. Often derided and humiliated by the men with whom she had to work, Golda Meir had her own complicated issues with gender and showed clear signs of having internalized the masculine ideals of the twentieth-century Zionist leadership (as when, for example, she derided her colleague and fellow cabinet minister Abba Eban, a cultivated, highly-educated man, as "effeminate"). And like another notable twentieth-century female political leader, Margaret Thatcher, she was less than supportive of younger women who wanted to follow in her footsteps. While Golda Meir has been the subject of several biographies, Lahav's is unique in its exploration of Golda's complicated and evolving relationship to her identity as a woman, particularly one who ascended to the apex of a patriarchal power structure.

Women prime ministers --- Meir, Golda,

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Women prime ministers --- Zionists --- Biography --- Meir, Golda,

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Tres peu de personnes auront eu à traverser des temps aussi troubles que ceux que vecut Agathe Uwilingiyimana comme Premier ministre du Rwanda avant le genocide. Au sujet de cette femme de tête, ses idees et son action, bien des questions demeurent sans reponse. Qui l'a assassinee et pourquoi ? Aurait-elle tente un putsch contre le President Habyarimana ? Aurait-elle trempe dans le complot visant à assassiner ce dernier ? Comment entendait-elle sauver le pays du chaos et de la descente aux enfers apres la disparition inopinee du President de la Republique qu'elle avait si âprement combattu ? Était-elle maîtresse de ses decisions ou etait-elle desinformee ou manipulee ? Pourquoi et comment cette enseignante recemment embarquee en politique a-t-elle ete la cible privilegiee de la presse de caniveau, entre 1992 et 1994 ? Quel comportement exceptionnel a-t-elle eu pour que la patrie reconnaissante l'eleve au rang des heros dans l'ordre d'Imena ? Son royaume d'enfance, son adolescence et sa jeunesse prefiguraient-ils un destin si singulier ? À travers lectures, souvenirs, temoignages et anecdotes, son ami d'enfance nous offre un recit edifiant, court mais dense, qui nous fait decouvrir la vie et la personnalite complexe et polymorphe de cette flamme ephemere dans la nuit rwandaise.

Women prime ministers --- Uwilingiyimana, Agathe, --- Rwanda --- History

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Angela Merkel vient de l'Allemagne de l'Est, époque soviétique. Elle sait ce que la liberté veut dire. Scientifique, protestante et divorcée, elle a su s'imposer dans un milieu hostile. C'est une tacticienne machiavélique, qui a épuisé quatre présidents français.En Allemagne, son nom est même devenu un verbe. " Merkeliser ", c'est avancer à petits pas, sans éclat, mais arriver au but. Angela Merkel est aussi une femme de valeurs, qui a accueilli des centaines de milliers de réfugiés et qui s'est dressée contre Donald Trump. Ce livre est son histoire, son portrait le plus juste, le plus passionnant.

Women prime ministers --- Prime ministers --- Political leadership --- Merkel, Angela, - 1954 --- -Germany --- Germany

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