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Women Politicking Politely Women in American Political History SeriesEditors:PamParryandDavidR.Davies AdvisoryBoard:MaurineBeasley,BarbaraG.Friedman,KarlaK.Gower,JaniceHume, MargotOpdyckeLamme,andJaneMarcellus WomeninAmericanPoliticalHistoryfocusesoninfluentialwomenthroughoutthehisto- ryofAmericanpolitics.FromtheColonialperiodthroughtheFoundinguptothepresent, women often haveplayed significantand meaningfulroles inpolitics,bothdirectlyand indirectly.Manyoftheircontributionshavebeenoverlooked.Thisinterdisciplinaryseries seeks toadvance thedialogue concerningtherole of women inpoliticsinAmericaand highlighttheirvariouscontributions,includingwomenwhowereelectedandappointedto officeandthosewhohavewieldedpoliticalpowerbehindthescenes,suchasfirstladies, journalists,activists,andpublicrelationspractitioners.Theserieswelcomescontributions fromallmethodologiesanddisciplinesacrossthesocialsciencesandhumanities. RecentTitles PressPortrayalsofWomenPoliticians,1870s–2000s:From“Lunatic”Woodhullto“Po- larizing”Palin,byTeriFinneman,2015 GenderedPolitics:CampaignStrategiesofCaliforniaWomenCandidates,1912–1970, byLindaVanIngen,2017 RubyA.Black:EleanorRoosevelt,PuertoRico,andPoliticalJournalisminWashington, byMaurineH.Beasley,2017 WomenPolitickingPolitely:AdvancingFeminisminthe1960sand1970s,byKimberly WilmotVoss,2017 Women Politicking Politely Advancing Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s Kimberly Wilmot Voss LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2017byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017936855 ISBN:978-1-4985-2229-8(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN:978-1-4985-2230-4(electronic) TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Thisbookisdedicatedtomyhusband,LanceSpeere,andmychildren, CurtisandPaul. Itisalsodedicatedtoalloftheimportant,well-behavedwomenwhostill needtobepartofthehistoricalrecord. Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 MeetingtheWell-BehavedWomenWhoMadeaDifference 1 2 WorldWarII,Women’sPages,andWomen’sClubs 29 3 Women’sJournalismOrganizations,Women’sPolitical Writing,andOffbeatWashington 49 4 WashingtonPressClub,FundraisingCookbooks,andGlaser’s YearsasHeadofWashingtonPressClub 67 5 QuestionsofFeminism,the1969PressConference,andthe President’sTaskForceonWomen’sRightsandResponsibilities 79 6 KathrynClarenbach,ContinuingEducationPrograms,and HelpingTraditionalWomen 93 7 Xilonen,the1975UnitedNationsWomen’sYearConferencein MexicoCity,andthe1977InternationalWomen’sYearMeeting inHouston 111 Afterword:WhatHappenedinthePost-HoustonYears 127 Bibliography 139 Index 149 AbouttheAuthor 157 vii
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