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005			20180722224510.0
008			161230s2017 ksua b 001 0deng
010			_a 2016051183
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020			_a9780700623808 _q(hardcover ; _qacid free paper)
020			_a0700623809 _q(hardcover ; _qacid free paper)
020			_z9780700623815 _q(electronic book)
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100	1		_aHummer, Jill Abraham, _eauthor. _9331879
245	1	0	_aFirst ladies and American women : _bin politics and at home / _cJill Abraham Hummer.
264		1	_aLawrence, Kansas : _bUniversity Press of Kansas, _c[2017]
300			_ax, 269 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-258) and index.
505	0		_aAfter suffrage. Women's citizenship ; The stable society -- The second wave. Equality ; The personal is political -- After 1980. Women's rights and human rights ; Motherhood and family politics.
520	2		_a"This book is a history of first ladies beginning with Lou Henry Hoover and ending with Michelle Obama, discussing how they defined their role with a focus on how they related to women's issues and how they participated in politics. Hummer explores the intersection of personality and the first ladies' personal ambition and relationship with their presidential spouse, with the social and political context of the time as these women found their place in politics and the presidency. How each incumbent defines this rather formless office reflects the changing role of women in society as well as the image the president wants to project of family life in the White House and his attitude towards women"--Provided by publisher.
520	2		_a"Unelected, but expected to act as befits her 'office,' the first lady has what Pat Nixon called 'the hardest unpaid job in the world.' Michelle Obama championed military families with the program Joining Forces. Four decades earlier Pat Nixon traveled to Africa as the nation's official representative. And nearly four decades before that, Lou Hoover took to the airwaves to solicit women's help in unemployment relief. Each first lady has, in her way, been intimately linked with the roles, rights, and responsibilities of American women. Pursuing this connection, First Ladies and American Women reveals how each first lady from Lou Henry Hoover to Michelle Obama has reflected and responded to trends that marked and unified her time. Jill Abraham Hummer divides her narrative into three distinct epochs. In the first, stretching from Lou Hoover to Jacqueline Kennedy, we see the advent of women's involvement in politics following women's suffrage, as well as pressures on family stability during depression, war, and postwar uncertainty. Next comes the second wave of the feminist movement, from Lady Bird Johnson's tenure through Rosalyn Carter's, when equality and the politics of the personal issues prevailed. And finally we enter the charged political and partisan environment over women's rights and the politics of motherhood in the wake of the conservative backlash against feminism after 1980, from Nancy Reagan to Michelle Obama. Throughout, Hummer explores how background, personality, ambitions, and her relationship to the president shaped each first lady's response to women in society and to the broader political context in which each administration functioned--and how, in turn, these singular responses reflect the changing role of women in American society over nearly a century"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aPresidents' spouses _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _9295600
650		0	_aPresidents' spouses _zUnited States _xHistory _y21st century. _9295601
650		0	_aPresidents' spouses _zUnited States _vBiography. _91509
650		0	_aPresidents' spouses _xFamily relationships _zUnited States _xHistory. _9331880
650		0	_aWomen _xPolitical activity _zUnited States _xHistory. _9331881
650		0	_aSex role _zUnited States _xHistory. _9331882
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1929-1933. _9304792
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1933-1945. _921181
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1945-1989. _934062
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1989- _915198
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