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

"One of the founders of the state of Israel, Golda Meir (1898-1978) was Israel's ambassador to the USSR in 1948-49, subsequently served as Israel's Minister of Labor and Foreign Minister, and in 1969 became Israel's fourth Prime Minister. Born to poor and uneducated parents in Ki...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lahav, Pnina, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Growing Up. In Imperial Russia ; To America ; Goldie and Morris Get Married ; Finding Her Vocation : Political Activism
  • Part II: Palestine, 1921-1948. The USS Pocahontas ; A Sojourn in Tel Aviv ; Comrade Golda and Comrade Morris in Kibbutz Merhavia ; Love and Marriage : Not a Fairy Tale ; The Attraction of Socialist Politics ; Pioneer Women : A Platform of Her Own ; World War II : The Ground Is Burning
  • Part III: 1948-1964. From Israel's First Emissary to the Soviet Union to Minister of Labor ; In Israel's First Cabinet : Golda Is Appointed Minister of Labor ; Golda's Conception of the Family ; Enter the "Other Woman" : Shabbat, the "Sacred Queen," and the Secular Minister of Labor ; Golda's Appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956 ; Golda's First International Crisis : The Nationalization of the Suez Shipping Company ; The African Connection
  • Part IV: 1964-1978. Ascendance : Madam Prime Minister ; Golda as an Object of Humiliation ; From Bathtub to Pedestal : An Interview with Oriana Fallaci ; Golda and Her Nemesis : Shulamit Aloni and the Question of Who Is a Jew ; Who Is a Jew? Individual Rights, Jewish Law, the Expediency of Politics, and the "Foreign Woman" ; Golda and the Revival of Feminism ; Nightmare : The Yom Kippur War ; In the Company of Men ; The End.