HOUSTON, Jan. 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific, a comprehensive biographical reference for use in high school or beyond, is the first of a two-volume set that covers the lives and careers of powerful women leaders throughout history.
Volume I: Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific brings more than a hundred women leaders, including tribal queens and Muslim queens who ruled in their own right, from obscurity into the limelight. With its alphabetically and regionally arranged entries, this thoroughly researched book presents women, both famous and little known, who held the reins of power on two continents, one subcontinent, and many Pacific islands. Its companion, Volume II, covers Women Leaders of Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
In easy-to-read entries with suggestions for further reading, Jackson describes wise and altruistic stateswomen as well as rapacious and blood-thirsty killers. Their similarities and differences illustrate the many facets of leadership and power in both ancient and contemporary times. These stories reveal how women acquired and used power to serve their country, satisfy their own desires, or simply, by hook or by crook, maintain their own authority.
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About the Author
Three of Guida Jackson's previous books, Women Who Ruled, Encyclopedia of Traditional Epics, and Women Rulers Throughout the Ages, have been on Library Journal's Best Reference List. Jackson has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine editor, book editor, lecturer in English (University of Houston), and Creative Writing (Montgomery College). She has a BA in Journalism, MA in the Humanities specializing in Latin American Literature, and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature specializing in Third World Literature, particularly West African. She is the founder of Touchstone Literary Journal (1976) and Panther Creek Press (1999), and author of eighteen fiction and non-fiction books, published by Simon & Schuster, Oxford University Press, Barnes & Noble Books, and others. Her fiction includes Passing Through, Death by Chicken, The Body in the Smokehouse, Hitting It Big, and Cybergasm. She lives with Jack, Hunter, and Lili Hume in Houston, Texas.
Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific
* by Guida M. Jackson
A Biographical Reference
Publication Date: August 20, 2009
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