What Is a First Lady?. Ellen Hawkes.
by Hawkes, Ellen; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 31Global Issues. Publisher: Ms., 2004ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Bush, Laura | Cheney, Lynne | Edwards, Elizabeth | Kerry, Teresa Heinz | Presidents' spouses | Social roleDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Jacqueline Kennedy once said, 'The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.' The question, of course, is What is it, this role? There has never been a 'job description' for the position." (MS.) This article examines the role of First Lady, describing it as "an institution freighted with symbolism, it is both a reflection of changing roles and images of women and a blank screen upon which attitudes toward women are projected, and often such views are contradictory, ambivalent and controversial."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: What Is a First Lady?, Spring 2004; pp. 36-41.
"Jacqueline Kennedy once said, 'The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.' The question, of course, is What is it, this role? There has never been a 'job description' for the position." (MS.) This article examines the role of First Lady, describing it as "an institution freighted with symbolism, it is both a reflection of changing roles and images of women and a blank screen upon which attitudes toward women are projected, and often such views are contradictory, ambivalent and controversial."
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