The Only Woman in the Room : : Golda Meir and Her Path to Power /

The Only Woman in the Room : : Golda Meir and Her Path to Power / / Pnina Lahav.

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room i...

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Lahav, Pnina,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 14 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. GROWING UP
  • 1 In Imperial Russia
  • 2 To America
  • 3 Goldie and Morris Get Married
  • 4 Finding Her Vocation: Political Activism
  • PART II. PALESTINE, 1921–1948
  • 5 The USS Pocahontas
  • 6 A Sojourn in Tel Aviv
  • 7 Comrade Golda and Comrade Morris in Kibbutz Merhavia
  • 8 Love and Marriage: Not a Fairy Tale
  • 9 The Attraction of Socialist Politics
  • 10 Pioneer Women: A Platform of Her Own
  • 11 World War II: The Ground Is Burning
  • PART III. 1948–1964
  • 12 From Israel’s First Emissary to the Soviet Union to Minister of Labor
  • 13 In Israel’s First Cabinet: Golda Is Appointed Minister of Labor
  • 14 Golda’s Conception of the Family
  • 15 Enter the “Other Woman”: Shabbat, the “Sacred Queen,” and the Secular Minister of Labor
  • 16 Golda’s Appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956
  • 17 Golda’s First International Crisis: The Nationalization of the Suez Shipping Company
  • 18 The African Connection
  • PART IV. 1964–1978
  • 19 Ascendance: Madam Prime Minister
  • 20 Golda as an Object of Humiliation
  • 21 From Bathtub to Pedestal: An Interview with Oriana Fallaci
  • 22 Golda and Her Nemesis: Shulamit Aloni and the Question of Who Is a Jew
  • 23 Who Is a Jew? Individual Rights, Jewish Law, the Expediency of Politics, and the “Foreign Woman”
  • 24 Golda and the Revival of Feminism
  • 25 Nightmare: The Yom Kippur War
  • 26 In the Company of Men
  • 27 The End
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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