Humanities & Social Sciences
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021The Egiptian Pop Queen. The Changes in Egyptian Queen Cleopatra’s Image from Historical Narration to Pop Culture
by Karolina Anna Kulpa
The analysis of the changes in perception of Cleopatra VII Philopator’s image in two- thousand-year reception. The author, discovering subsequent layers of the myth – from a historical figure to the Egyptian Pop Queen – shows that Cleopatra’s image in every historical period depended on current trends. Who was Cleopatra? Was she a godess, a devoted mother, a queen figthing for her state, a ruthless seductress, a monster, an ancien femme fatale, a beauty with the face of Elisabeth Taylor or a woman like many others?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021The Anatomy of Charismatic Leadership
by Maria Wisniewska
The monograph of one of the twenty five most influential women in Europe (according to The Wall Street Journal) contains the analysis of causative factors of leadership and sources of social perception of the leader’s charisma. The author, using her own professional experience and multi-disciplinary scientific knowledge, provides two model and theoretical conceptions: the first one refers to general leadership, the second one to charismatic leadership. The hypotheses are confronted by selected cases of leadership seen as charismatic: of John Paul II, Lech Wałęsa, Margaret Thatcher and Steve Jobs.
