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Hello, I'm Dashiani Navanayagam and welcome to the conversation from the BBC World Service.
This is the show that brings together remarkable women from different countries to share their experiences,
expertise and passion.
Today on the programme, Political Biographies.
The women joining me today haven't just written about female politicians living continents and decades apart.
They also wanted to reveal the wider story of what life was like for women living in the same time and place as the female politician they were writing about.
Joining me in the studio is Helene Cooper,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times correspondent.
After reporting on Barack Obama's first term in office,
she decided it was time to turn to the president of her native Liberia,
Ellen Johnson Salif, the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
And Dr Leckie Hopkins is a feminist academic who headed up the Women's Studies programme at Edith Cowan University in Perth for 25 years until 2016.
Her book The Magnificent Life of Miss May Holman tells the story of Australia's first female Labour parliamentarian,
a household name in her lifetime, but who,
within decades, was largely forgotten after her death in 1939.
Helene and Leckie are very warm welcome to the conversation.
Thanks for having us.