Doreen J Mattingly

A Feminist in the White House

Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America's Culture Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. But for a time during the seventies, this "loud-mouthed, pushy little broad" with no college education was a prominent focal point of the American culture wars. In this book, Doreen Mattingly draws on Costanza's life to tell a wider, but heretofore neglected, story of the hopeful yet fraught era of gender politics in late 70s Washington--a history that is not just important to US women's and presidential history but which continues to resonate in politics today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780197583357
• ISBN-10: 0197583350
• Artikelnr.: 62109861

Autorenporträt

Doreen J. Mattingly is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at San Diego State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1: Introduction
* Chapter 2: Making It in a Man's World
* Chapter 3: Vice Mayor of Rochester
* Chapter 4: Sex, Power and the Campaign to Elect Jimmy Carter
* Chapter 5: Window to the Nation: Midge Costanza Opens Up the White
House
* Chapter 6: Abortion, Controversy, and the Limits of Loyalty
* Chapter 7: International Women's Year and the Battle to Ratify the
Equal Rights Amendment
* Chapter 8: "It Isn't Enough": Fighting for Feminist Policy
* Chapter 9: The Decline and Fall of Midge Costanza
* Chapter 10: It Never Rains in California