Part I The Age of Enlightened Rule? --
1 Women's Political Authority in Maria Antonia Walpurgis von Sachsen's Talestris: Königin der Amazonen (Thalestris: Queen of the Amazons, 1763) p. 27 / Seth Berk --
2 Maxims of Leadership for a Silent Readership: Sophie von La Roche's Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter and Mein Schreibetisch p. 59 / Margaretmary Daley --
3 Marcus Aurelius, Also for Girls: Discussions on the Best Form of Government in Enlightenment Hamburg p. 82 / Almut Spalding --
4 Dux Femina Facti: Gender, Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature in Marie Antonia of Saxony's Thalestris and Charlotte von Stein's Dido p. 97 / Anke Gilleir and Aude Defurne --
5 Crossing the Front Lines: Female Leadership, Politics, and War in Die Familie Seldorf p. 113 / Sarah Vandegrift Bldridge --
6 Power Struggles between Women in Schiller's and Jelinek's Works p. 131 / Inge Stephan --
Part II Leadership as Social Activism around 1900 --
7 Age and Purpose; Unmarried Women and Female Agency in the Works of E. Marlitt and Hedwig Dohm p. 147 / Lauren Nossett --
8 "Heroism of the Mother": Women's Rights Pioneer Jeannette Schwerin, Motherlove, and Women's Leadership in German-Speaking Central Europe, 1890-1914 p. 165 / Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker --
9 Strategic Optimism: Bertha von Suttner's Activism for Peace p. 184 / Elisabeth Krimmer --
10 Humanizing Socialism: The Feminist Dimension of Rosa Luxemburg's Intellectual Leadership p. 204 / Peter Hudis --
Part III Women and Political Power in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries --
11 Follow-the-Leader: Tracing Male Influence on Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens p. 225 / Rachel J. Halverson --
12 "Leaning In": The Career Woman as Instrument of Neoliberal Critique p. 243 / Helga Druxes --
13 Change, Persistence, and Contradiction: The Representation of Female Political Leadership in Gendered Media p. 262 / Dorothee Beck --
14 Petra Kelly: A Green Leader out of Place? p. 281 / Stephen Milder and Friederike Brühöfener --
15 "Mama Merkel" and "Mutti-Multikulti": The Perils of Governing While Female p. 301 / Patricia Anne Simpson --
16 Women Leaders in Troubled Times: The Leadership Styles of Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton p. 318 / Joyce Marie Mushaben.
