Negotiating gender role expectations: Rhetorical leadership and women in the US senate

Leadership

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 381-402

  Bligh, Michelle C ^a   Kohles, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Gender; Leadership; Political; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049105479     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715008095187     Document Type: Article

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