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Hardcover: 9781859845875, Verso Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $22.00
Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species
The women appointed to President Bush's cabinet and subcabinet, fronts for an extremist administration, are revealed in how they arrived in office, where they are headed,and what their power means for women's equality, in protraits of Secretary of the Interior Gale Ann Norton, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Condoleezza Rice, Lynne Cheney, and others.
Product Description: From the workplace to the war zone, the Bush administration has wrapped female-friendly rhetoric around some of the most hard-core policy since Ronald Reagan. Some well-placed women have helped to pull off that con job. Invaluable to the president, underscrutinized in the press, the Bushwomenâthe women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinetâare cast in the public mind as moderate, malleable, maverick, irrelevant or benign. Their carefully crafted images tap into stereotypes, while the reality of their records has remained out of sight...until now.
This is the first book to investigate Bush's women, and to report on how they rose to power and what they've done. Find out about why Chevron named a tanker after National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; how financial ties to big tobacco corporations got Secretary of the Interior Gale Ann Norton dubbed "The Woman from Marlboro Country"; how Labor Secretary Elaine Chao bullied union longshoreworkers to benefit her trading-with-China family and friends; read excerpts of Lynne Cheney's lesbian novel; and discover how Karen Hughes got her first job thanks to the National Organization for Women.
Women swing voters can decide elections now, and the Bush team will do whatever it takes to win their support. The cynical crusade to put a female face on anti-feminist policy is revealed in this scathing and entertaining investigation of the sinister politicians we call the Bushwomen.
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