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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
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