04105pam 2200661 a 450 991034511270332120230828213243.00-8135-5563-90-585-02361-1(CKB)111004368605508(MH)005632067-1(SSID)ssj0000119795(PQKBManifestationID)11999896(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119795(PQKBWorkID)10072919(PQKB)11685898(EXLCZ)9911100436860550819940929d1995 uy 0engtxtccrChanging differences women and the shaping of American foreign policy, 1917-1994 /Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones[electronic resource]New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc19951 online resource (x, 275 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8135-2166-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. A Momentary Silence: The Survival of Gender Distinction in World War I -- 3. From Peace to Prices in the Tariff Decade -- 4. Presidential Recognition of the Female Vote, 1932 -- 5. Dorothy Detzer and the Merchants of Death -- 6. A Tale of Two Women: Harriet Elliott, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Changing Differences -- 7. Margaret Chase Smith and the Female Quest for Security -- 8. Bella Abzug: Signpost to the Future -- 9. The Myth of the Iron Lady: An International Comparison -- 10. American Women and Contemporary Foreign Policy -- 11. Conclusion.There are more than fifty women in the United States Congress and nearly one-fourth of foreign service posts are held by women. Nevertheless, the United States has yet to entrust a senior foreign policy job, outside of the United Nations, to a woman. Beneath these statistics lurk central myths that Jeffreys-Jones cogently identifies and describes: the "Iron Lady"--Too masculine; the "lover of peace" - too "pink"; the weak or the promiscuous. These are to name only a few. With an eye to the feminist foreign policy leaders of the future, the author traces the successes and failures of collectivities such as Women Strike for Peace and individuals who were influential in international politics since World War I, including Alice Paul, Jane Addams, Jeannette Rankin, Dorothy Detzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Bella Abzug, Margaret Thatcher, and many others.These women often found ways to employ the myths to their own and to their country's benefit, and more recently have had the freedom to defy the stereotypes altogether.WomenPolitical activityUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen diplomatsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomenHistoryPolitical activity20th centuryUnited StatesWomen diplomatsHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRegions & Countries - AmericasHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCUnited States - GeneralHILCCUnited StatesForeign relations20th centuryHistory.fastWomenPolitical activityHistoryWomen diplomatsHistoryWomenHistoryPolitical activityWomen diplomatsHistoryRegions & Countries - AmericasHistory & ArchaeologyUnited States - General327.73Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri983147Jeffreys-Jones RhodriDLCDLCDLCBOOK9910345112703321Changing differences2243931UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress