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Moms in chief : the rhetoric of Republican motherhood and the spouses of presidential nominees, 1992- 2016 / Tammy R. Vigil.
Van Pelt Library HQ1391.U5 V54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vigil, Tammy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidential candidates' spouses--United States.
- Presidential candidates' spouses.
- Political campaigns--United States--History.
- Political campaigns.
- Motherhood--Political aspects.
- Motherhood.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--History.
- Rhetoric.
- Motherhood--Political aspects--United States.
- Women--Political activity--United States.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction: political spouses and presidential campaigns
- Women as citizens: the emergence and entrenchment of Republican motherhood
- Barbara Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton: the Year of the Woman
- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elizabeth Dole: dutiful (and accomplished) wives
- Tipper Gore and Laura Bush: quintessential Republican mothers
- Laura Bush and Teresa Heinz Kerry: the all-American wife and the assertive heiress
- Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama: revering wifedom and motherhood
- Michelle Obama and Ann Romney: battling for mom in chief
- Bill Clinton and Melania Trump: the former president and the model immigrant
- Conclusion: reifying Republican motherhood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700627486
- 0700627480
- OCLC:
- 1057242656
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