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Margaret Thatcher: To be or not to be a woman

British Politics, 2015
Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to be elected to lead the Conservative Party in 1975 – UN international year of women. Her leadership and her persona were saturated with the thoroughly gendered politics of the Tory tradition and its encounter with contemporary feminism. Was she a woman premier or was she a premier for women?
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The Downfall of Margaret Thatcher

1995
This chapter examines the resignation of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister to uncover what it shows about the power of the British prime minister and of the cabinet. It is not a chronological narrative but an analytical explanation, unravelling the threads of a story. The plot is rather like a detective novel by Agatha Christie.
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Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher

The European Legacy, 2017
The Daily Mail called it “The political biography of the decade.” It lives up to the billing. Robin Harris has written a very readable, informative, balanced, and fair book about the late Margaret ...
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Margaret Thatcher

2023
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A Meeting with Margaret Thatcher

2016
U.S. presidents and other heads of state too often sideline economic affairs when their attention is demanded elsewhere. Diplomacy, wars, and scandals are typical reasons. More than that, some leaders don’t value high-level economic advice. President Herbert Hoover considered himself an economist of sorts, and spurned the counsel of leading experts ...
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Brexit and Margaret Thatcher's Eurosceptic legacy

Ever since Brexit, an increasing number of scholars have devoted their attention to investigating the roots of British Euroscepticism. In so doing, many have found an alleged culprit in Margaret Thatcher and her Eurosceptic legacy. The aim of this chapter is to problematise these claims.
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Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender inThe Iron LadyandThe Crown

Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2023
Leland G Spencer
exaly  

Margaret Thatcher, 1979–1990

2010
About a figure as controversial as Margaret Thatcher, there is no point in preaching to a text. It is better to take something from Henry Kissinger: ‘What we want is not more secret knowledge but the better a nalysis of what we a l ready know.’ The aim here is to ask questions rather than retell in detail 11 long years, starting with the basic question
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Thatcher, Margaret

Ventunesimo secolo : rivista di studi sulle transizioni : 32, 3, 2013
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DEFENDING COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION: BRIAN SIMON’S RESPONSE TO MARGARET THATCHER’S GOVERNMENTS (1979–1990)

British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
Hsiao-Yuh Ku
exaly