But today a new class of august women loom as worthy of inspection. They are the Consorts of the world’s six major Dictators. Theirs is the simplified problem and the dazzling opportunity of ...

An unnamed woman was denied a top-secret security clearance this year due to being a “close” relative of an authoritarian dictator of an unnamed country, according to a publicly available ...

I was a reporter in the 2016 U.S. election, and I wound up writing a novel about a cryptic and beautiful dictator’s wife, one who flips between domesticity and cruelty, a woman who’s ...

2014 The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo.Lauren Derby. Duke University Press, 2009 The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of ...