The only woman in the room

• Verfasst von: Lahav, Pninah [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The only woman in the room
• Titelzusatz: Golda Meir and her path to power
• Verf.angabe: Pnina Lahav
• Verlagsort: Princeton ; Oxford
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xxv, 344 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20174-0
• Schlagwörter: (p)Meʾir, Goldah / (g)Israel / (s)Regierungschefin
• Dokumenttyp: Biografie
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Lahav, Pninah, 1945 - : The only woman in the room. - First edition. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 344 Seiten)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Lahav, Pninah, 1945 - : The only woman in the room. - Princeton$aOxford : Princeton University Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (377 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: MS 3100
• RVK-Notation: MH 84630
• RVK-Notation: NQ 8821
• K10plus-PPN: 1775937771

Abstract

In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898-1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. This is the first book to contend with Meir’s full identity as a woman, Jew, Zionist leader, and one of the founders of Israel, providing a richer portrait of her persona and legacy. Meir, Lahav shows, deftly deflected misogyny as she traveled the path to becoming Israel’s fourth, and only female, prime minister, from 1969 to 1974. Lahav revisits the youthful encounters that forged Meir’s passion for socialist Zionism and reassesses her decision to separate from her husband and leave her children in the care of others. Enduring humiliation and derision from her colleagues, Meir nevertheless led in establishing Israel as a welfare state where social security, workers’ rights, and maternity leave became law. Lahav looks at the challenges that beset Meir’s premiership, particularly the disastrous Yom Kippur War, which led to her resignation and withdrawal from politics, as well as Meir’s bitter duel with feminist and civil rights leader Shulamit Aloni, Meir’s complex relationship with the Israeli and American feminist movements, and the politics that led her to distance herself from feminism altogether.