A Feminist in the White House
Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America's Culture Wars
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 September 2021
- ISBN 9780197583357
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 155x231x22 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 150
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Short description:
Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. But for a time during the seventies, this "loud-mouthed, pushy little broad" with no college education was a prominent focal point of the American culture wars. In this book, Doreen Mattingly draws on Costanza's life to tell a wider, but heretofore neglected, story of the hopeful yet fraught era of gender politics in late 70s Washington--a history that is not just important to US women's and presidential history but which continues to resonate in politics today.
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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 fascinating and 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 the 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.
Through the lens of Constanza's story, readers catch a unique perspective of the rise of debates which have defined the feminist movement and sexual politics to this very day. Mattingly also reveals a wider, but heretofore neglected, narrative of the complex era of gender politics in the late 1970's Washington--a history which continues to resonate in politics today. A Feminist in the White House is a must-read for anyone with an interest in sexual politics, female politicians, and presidential history.
...a splendid, wholly engrossing biography."
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Making It in a Man's World
Chapter 3: Vice Mayor of Rochester
Chapter 4: Sex, Power and the Campaign to Elect Jimmy Carter
Chapter 5: Window to the Nation: Midge Costanza Opens Up the White House
Chapter 6: Abortion, Controversy, and the Limits of Loyalty
Chapter 7: International Women's Year and the Battle to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
Chapter 8: "It Isn't Enough": Fighting for Feminist Policy
Chapter 9: The Decline and Fall of Midge Costanza
Chapter 10: It Never Rains in California
