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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBARBARA C. BURRELL [*] This article examines Hillary Rodham Clinton's relationship with the public with the purpose of considering the first lady more generally as an overt policy adviser to the president. The first...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEDITH P. MAYO [*] All first ladies have entertained socially while in the White House. Indeed, the role is so much a part of the office that hosting is expected of the presidential spouses. This article considers the...
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From:Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society (Vol. 87, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed`Here's to the arm which can hold `em when gone, / Still to a gallop inclined, sir' (1) `The lamentable death of Lady Mary FitzRoy was ... an irreparable misfortune to the colony' (2) In Australian historical...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDIANE-MICHELE PRINDEVILLE [*] In the Southwestern United States, Hispanas and American Indian women are increasingly adopting policymaking roles in state, local, and tribal politics. This study examines the influence...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMYRA GUTIN [*] Historians have been polled in an effort to determine rankings of American first ladies (Gould, 1996; Watson, 1999). Eleanor Roosevelt (#1), Rosalynn Carter (#5), Lady Bird Johnson (#6), Jacqueline...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGARY D. WEKKIN [*] The First Ladyship is an institution that consists not only of the perceptions of its various occupants, and the accumulated precedents they have established, but also of the perceptions of the...
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From:Public Opinion Quarterly (Vol. 61, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn independence gap, in which women are on average 6 percentage points less likely than men to view themselves as political independents, has existed in the United States for at least 40 years. Women opt for weak...
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From:Argumentation and Advocacy (Vol. 55, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis study seeks to understand the rhetorical tactics of Belva Bennett Lockwood, the first woman to run a campaign for U.S. President. Lockwood attempted to make a female presidential candidacy seem plausible by framing...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMAURINE H. BEASLEY [*] This article examines the 350 women-only press conferences that Eleanor Roosevelt held in the White House from 1933 to 1945. It argues that the conferences were not revolutionary attempts at...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCARL SFERRAZZA ANTHONY [*] One of the great fallacies of contemporary presidential studies is that the political partnership of the chief executive and his spouse did not exist prior to Franklin and Eleanor...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHas the debate about women's roles in U.S. society allowed first ladies greater latitude in choosing the role(s) they will perform? To answer this question, two points on the spectrum of possible first lady...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHillary Rodham Clinton was perhaps the most polarizing first lady in the history of the office. The negativity that greeted Hillary's emergence on the national stage began during her husband's 1992 campaign for the...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGIL TROY [*] In the post-World War II era, the influence of first ladies has grown along with the prominence of the institution to the point where both scholars and journalists speak of the existence of a...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedANTHONY J. EKSTEROWICZ [*] The increasing influence and activism of first ladies is not without consequence. Two results have been the growth and professionalization of the first ladies' office and its integration...
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From:Sister Namibia (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAt the United State of Women Summit of 2018 Michelle Obama said; "So many of us have gotten ourselves at the table, but we are still too grateful to be at the table to really shake it up. Because for so many of us...
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From:Sister Namibia (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWomen's rights activists in Zimbabwe are outraged by the low representation of female politicians in the new unity government. Only four women are part of the 35-member cabinet, laughably short of the equal...
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From:Alberta History (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"It is stated by my opponents that I am the minion of corporations. No man spoke more strongly than I in favor of compensation for CPR lands. I am ready to serve either persons or corporations in the practice of my...
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From:Irish Literary Supplement (Vol. 27, Issue 1)I FIRST MET MICHAEL YEATS (August 22, 1921-January 3, 2007) in May 1991. The Manuscript Society, an international organization of people interested in collecting, preserving and encouraging use of manuscripts in...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 93, Issue 2)Chris Suellentrop reported in Slate on Jan. 14 about the recent controversy over the revelation that the Howard Dean campaign had paid two bloggers for positive coverage during the presidential race. The controversy...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction One characteristic of French political life is the small number of women holding national elective office. From 1944, when women received the vote, until the 2002 legislative elections, the percentage of...