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Zusatztext Publishers Weekly Burkett talks to a wide range of women! from libertarians and Muslims to militia leaders! small business owners! African-Americans! home schoolers! and gun activists. The book stands out for the remarkable variety of profiles. Informationen zum Autor Elinor Burkett has worked as a newspaper reporter, university professor, and magazine writer. A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and the author of eight previous books, she divides her time between the Catskill Mountains of New York and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Klappentext Despite feminist predictions that women's liberation would forge a national sisterhood steeped in common values and goals, today's most outspoken voices come from women who ironically embody the ideal of independence even as they denounce the principles of "old" feminism. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, Elinor Burkett takes readers into the lives, minds, and hearts of conservative women, from prominent politicians like Elizabeth Dole to gun-toting militiawomen. Neither an attack on feminism nor a defense of antifeminism, The Right Women is an evenhanded and lively exploration of a movement that is rewriting the rules, not only for women, but for American society as a whole. Zusammenfassung Despite feminist predictions that women's liberation would forge a national sisterhood steeped in common values and goals! today's most outspoken voices come from women who ironically embody the ideal of independence even as they denounce the principles of "old" feminism. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews! Elinor Burkett takes readers into the lives! minds! and hearts of conservative women! from prominent politicians like Elizabeth Dole to gun-toting militiawomen. Neither an attack on feminism nor a defense of antifeminism! The Right Women is an evenhanded and lively exploration of a movement that is rewriting the rules! not only for women! but for American society as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroduction: Through the Looking GlassPART I The New RecruitsThe BabesA Digression into a Mad Hatter's Tea PartyThe AbolitionistsA Digression into the World of Soccer Moms and Gender FissuresThe OutlawsA Digression into Cooking Up TroubleThe ApostatesA Digression into a Posse of Pistol-Packing MamasPART II The Old FaithfulThe HolyA Digression into Faith of a Different FabricThe OperatorsA Digression into the Strong Arms and Stronger Spirits of FrontierswomenThe IdeopreneursA Digression into the Mind of a Femi-NewtieThe WearyEpilogue: Everything Has a Moral, If Only You Can Find ItNotesIndex...
