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This project analyzes how political women rhetorically perform-discursively, visually, and physically-their positions of power and how these performances are read, time again, against and with other women who have held similar positions in different geopolitical locations.

This article addresses Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan's call for transnational feminist research that makes visible "the material conditions that structure women's lives in diverse locations" (17). The author argues that videogames can contribute to feminist scholarship by creating virtual spaces that simulate how a transnational politics of location plays out on women's bodies. This article provides a spatial analysis of three videogames, République, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Alien: Isolation, to show how the games' procedures can persuade audiences to empathize with the surveillance and precarity of women's bodies in real-life transnational experiences. While the games focus on "stealth," the limitations provided by the gameplay simulate the different ways in which women's bodies must "sneak" around national identities and rules, thus showing the ways in which a transnational politics of location creates "contradictory positions. . . [for women who] inhibit unitary identities" (Grewal and Kaplan 7).

In this article, the writer argues that the nickname of "iron lady" for women leaders provides an accurate and complicated instantiation of Donna Haraway's cyborg ontology, providing women a place from which to be responsible for their machinery, while also positioning them (potentially) as complicit agents in the hegemonic traditions of national manhood. Therefore, iron ladies—these women who are heads of state—present embodied and real-world examples of the debate over the potentials and pitfalls of cyborg ontology in women's studies and feminist research. This article uses historical examples of Margaret Thatcher, Eugenia Charles, and Indira Ghandi to establish the rhetorical trope of iron ladies; then it complicates this tradition with contemporary leaders' performance of iron lady, examining the political personas of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Benazir Bhutto, Ségolène Royal, and Hillary Clinton. To conclude, the writer analyzes the current U.S. political climate for the emergence of an iron lady president. Based on Clinton's campaign in 2008, it seems that the iron lady rhetorical performance had become visible to the same patriarchal systems that cyborgs attempt to subvert, thus requiring female politicians to reconsider the potentials of this technologized rhetorical performance.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse demonstrates how Clinton used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to lead. This edited collection analyzes interviews with and media reports about Clinton to present readers with a pre-election picture of her discourse and its relation to the 2016 election.