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- catalog abstract ""At forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, physician and mother of four, was appointed Prime Minister of Norway - the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that office. Nineteen years later, in 1997, she was named Director General of the World Health Organization, where she has expertly applied her skills as physician and politician to the urgent problems of hunger and disease worldwide. In this plainspoken and refreshingly forthright memoir, Brundtland tells the story of her career as a series of challenges facing ambitious women everywhere. She writes candidly about encountering chauvinism in the media and among her political opponents, about applying her visionary principles to the developing world, about maintaining her bipartisan marriage and surviving a mother's worst nightmare. She pointedly recalls her encounters with kings, presidents, emirs, generals, and clerics and their often unsatisfactory apprehensions of the challenges the world faces." "Norwegian society under Brundtland became synonymous with social democracy and the key concept of the global environmental movement, "sustainable development," is a lasting coinage of the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations, which also brought about the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. With the World Health Organization, Brundtland has led a massive effort to control new and reemergent diseases in Africa and Asia. Along the way she has made policy and broken bread with the likes of Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, Boris Yeltsin, and Margaret Thatcher."--Cover.".
- catalog alternative "Mitt liv 1939-1986. English".
- catalog contributor b12536890.
- catalog contributor b12536891.
- catalog coverage "Norway Politics and government 1945-".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""At forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, physician and mother of four, was appointed Prime Minister of Norway - the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that office. Nineteen years later, in 1997, she was named Director General of the World Health Organization, where she has expertly applied her skills as physician and politician to the urgent problems of hunger and disease worldwide. In this plainspoken and refreshingly forthright memoir, Brundtland tells the story of her career as a series of challenges facing ambitious women everywhere.".
- catalog description ""Norwegian society under Brundtland became synonymous with social democracy and the key concept of the global environmental movement, "sustainable development," is a lasting coinage of the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations, which also brought about the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. With the World Health Organization, Brundtland has led a massive effort to control new and reemergent diseases in Africa and Asia. Along the way she has made policy and broken bread with the likes of Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, Boris Yeltsin, and Margaret Thatcher."--Cover.".
- catalog description "Love, War, Childhood -- Mother, Doctor, Rebel, Researcher -- The New Minister of the Environment -- The Woman's Year -- Challenges Offshore and Inland -- Sidelined -- Celebrated and Under Attack -- Nuclear Arms and Security--The Big Test -- At Home, in Opposition -- The Brundtland Commission -- Government of Women, 1986-89 -- Losing and Winning the Government -- Safety Net: The European Economic Area -- The Long Struggle Toward EU Membership -- Cities and Summits, Leaders and Heroes -- Jorgen -- Stepping Down -- My Way to the WHO -- Health and Globalization.".
- catalog description "She writes candidly about encountering chauvinism in the media and among her political opponents, about applying her visionary principles to the developing world, about maintaining her bipartisan marriage and surviving a mother's worst nightmare. She pointedly recalls her encounters with kings, presidents, emirs, generals, and clerics and their often unsatisfactory apprehensions of the challenges the world faces."".
- catalog extent "viii, 485 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0374167168 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng nor".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "Norway Politics and government 1945-".
- catalog spatial "Norway".
- catalog subject "948.104/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Brundtland, Gro Harlem.".
- catalog subject "DL535.B78 B7913 2002".
- catalog subject "Prime ministers Norway Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Love, War, Childhood -- Mother, Doctor, Rebel, Researcher -- The New Minister of the Environment -- The Woman's Year -- Challenges Offshore and Inland -- Sidelined -- Celebrated and Under Attack -- Nuclear Arms and Security--The Big Test -- At Home, in Opposition -- The Brundtland Commission -- Government of Women, 1986-89 -- Losing and Winning the Government -- Safety Net: The European Economic Area -- The Long Struggle Toward EU Membership -- Cities and Summits, Leaders and Heroes -- Jorgen -- Stepping Down -- My Way to the WHO -- Health and Globalization.".
- catalog title "Madam Prime Minister : a life in power and politics / Gro Harlem Brundtland.".
- catalog title "Mitt liv 1939-1986. English".
- catalog type "text".