Women Who Ruled Author:Guida M. Jackson Jackson provides the most extensive source to date covering women rulers, de facto rulers, and constitutional monarchs. About 350 biographical sketches, from Egypt's Meryet-Net (31st century B.C.) to Nicaragua's new president, Violeta Chamorro, are included. Scope, criteria for selection, and special problems are discussed in the preface... more »; a useful overview by continent comprises the introduction; and a chronology lists each ruler by century. Library Journal« less