Only Woman in the Room

Regular price €38.99
Regular price €39.99 Sale Sale price €38.99
A01=Pnina Lahav
Activism
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Amendment
Aunt
Author_Pnina Lahav
automatic-update
Bourgeoisie
Buddhism
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BGH
Category=DNBH
Category=NHD
COP=United States
Dafna
Deliberation
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Disability
Dissident
Double burden
Emptiness
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
Ethel Kennedy
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist theory
First Lady
Flightless bird
Furniture
Gender equality
Gender neutrality
Gender role
Glass ceiling
Golda Meir
Halakha
Hanging
Histadrut
In Her Skin
Inferiority complex
Institution
Israelis
Jews
John Foster Dulles
Kibbutz
Knesset
Ladies' Home Journal
Language_English
Lawlessness
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Loneliness
Manicure
Mapai
Memoir
Misogyny
Mother
Mrs.
Ms.
Multitude
Oriana Fallaci
PA=Available
Pale of Settlement
Password
Pat Nixon
Persephone
Price_€20 to €50
Privacy
PS=Active
Resentment
Secrecy
Secrecy (book)
Secularism
Sewing
Sexism
softlaunch
Subconscious
Suffragette
Superiority (short story)
Tel Aviv
The Feminine Mystique
Uncertainty
Upper class
Virginity
Wet nurse
Women in Israel
Yiddish
Zionism

Product details

  • ISBN 9780691201740
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel

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. The Only Woman in the Room 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.

Exploring the tensions between Meir’s personal and political identities, The Only Woman in the Room provides a groundbreaking new account of Meir’s life while also illuminating the difficulties all women face as they try to ascend in male-dominated fields.

Pnina Lahav is emerita professor of law and a member of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. She is the author of the award-winning Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century.