A feminist in the White House : Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars
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A feminist in the White House : Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars
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The work A feminist in the White House : Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- A feminist in the White House : Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars
- Title remainder
- Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars
- Statement of responsibility
- Doreen J. Mattingly
- Subject
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- Costanza, Midge, 1932-2010
- Culture conflict -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Feminists -- United States -- Biography
- Political consultants -- United States -- Biography
- Sex role -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Biographies
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
- Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- -- Friends and associates
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1977 she became the first female Assistant to the President for Public Liaison under Jimmy Carter, emerging as a prominent focal point of the American culture wars. Tasked with bringing the views of special interest groups to the president, Costanza championed progressive causes even as Americans grew increasingly divided on the very issues for which she fought. In A Feminist in the White House, Doreen Mattingly draws on Costanza's personal papers to shed light on the life of this controversial woman. Mattingly chronicles Costanza's dramatic rise and fall as a public figure, from her initial popularity to her ultimate clashes with Carter and his aides. While Costanza challenged Carter to support abortion rights, gay and lesbian rights, and feminist policies, Carter faced increased pressure to appease the interests of emerging Religious Right, which directly opposed Costanza's ideals. Ultimately, marginalized both within the White House and by her fellow feminists, Costanza was pressured to resign in 1978
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 305.42092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E840.8.C687
- LC item number
- M28 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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