Book review: Michele Paule and Hannah Yelin,Who Runs the World? Girls,Leadership,and Women in the Public Eye

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Yelin H Paule M (2024) Voice/lessness and ventrolloquism: Girls’ creative and collective resistance to masculine ‘leadership theatre’ in Covid-era news. In: Bernardi V Giammanco AD Mißler H (eds) Covid-19 in Film and Television: Watching the Pandemic. London: Routledge pp.18–43.