No place for a woman : a life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith /

No place for a woman : a life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith /

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Author / Creator:	Sherman, Janann.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2000.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Rutgers series on women and politics Rutgers series on women and politics.
Subject:	Smith, Margaret Chase, -- 1897-1995. Smith, Margaret Chase, -- 1897-1995 United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography. United States. -- Congress. -- Senate. Women legislators -- United States -- Biography. Legislators -- United States -- Biography. Legislators. Women legislators. United States. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11111953

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ISBN:	0585322651 9780585322650 081355778X 9780813557786 0813527228
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"Margaret Chase Smith served thirty-three years in the U.S. Congress (1940 to 1973). Her congressional tenure spanned the administrations of six presidents and three major wars, and marked significant changes in the roles of women in all aspects of American life. For most of her twenty-four years as a senator Smith served as the only woman. She was the first woman to seek the nomination of a major political party for the presidency of the United States."--Jacket "By the time she left office, Senator Smith was the most powerful woman in American politics. From her positions on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, she exercised considerable influence over a broad range of military, foreign, and domestic policies. Yet, Smith did not view herself as a feminist; in fact, she disparaged feminism. For her, success required a special combination of hard work, masked ambition, and proper womanly behavior."--BOOK JACKET. "No Place for a Woman is the first biography to analyze Smith's life and times by using politics and gender as the lens through which we can understand her impact on American politics and American women."--Jacket
Other form:	Print version: Sherman, Janann. No place for a woman. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2000 0813527228

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Double Vision
1. A Sense of Place
2. Political Education
3. Mrs. Clyde Smith
4. On Her Own
5. Naval Affairs
6. No Place for a Woman
7. Joan of Arc
8. A Declaration of Conscience
9. Smith versus Jones
10. Amazon Warmonger
11. Dream Ticket
12. Leave It to the Girls
13. The Grand Old Lady
14. Senator Emeritus
Notes
Bibliography
Index