Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994

by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Rhodri Jeffreys Jones

Book Overview

There are more than fifty women in the United States Congress and nearly one-fourth of foreign service posts are held by women. Nevertheless, the United States has yet to entrust a senior foreign policy job, outside of the United Nations, to a woman. Beneath these statistics lurk central myths that Jeffreys-Jones cogently identifies and describes: the "Iron Lady"--too masculine; the "lover of peace"--too "pink"; the weak or the promiscuous. These...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813524490
• ISBN13: 9780813524498
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"