The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power

CONTENTS\nIntroduction\nPART I. GROWING UP\n1 In Imperial Russia\n2 To America\n3 Goldie and Morris Get Married\n4 Finding Her Vocation: Political Activism\nPART II. PALESTINE, 1921–1948\n5 The USS Pocahontas\n6 A Sojourn in Tel Aviv\n7 Comrade Golda and Comrade Morris in Kibbutz Merhavia\n8 Love and Marriage: Not a Fairy Tale\n9 The Attraction of Socialist Politics\n10 Pioneer Women: A Platform of Her Own\n11 World War II: The Ground Is Burning\nPART III. 1948–1964\n12 From Israel’s First Emissary to the Soviet Union to Minister of Labor\n13 In Israel’s First Cabinet: Golda Is Appointed Minister of Labor\n14 Golda’s Conception of the Family\n15 Enter the “Other Woman”: Shabbat, the “Sacred Queen,” and the Secular Minister of Labor\n16 Golda’s Appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956\n17 Golda’s First International Crisis: The Nationalization of the Suez Shipping Company\n18 The African Connection\nPART IV. 1964–1978\n19 Ascendance: Madam Prime Minister\n20 Golda as an Object of Humiliation\n21 From Bathtub to Pedestal: An Interview with Oriana Fallaci\n22 Golda and Her Nemesis: Shulamit Aloni and the Question of Who Is a Jew\n23 Who Is a Jew? Individual Rights, Jewish Law, the Expediency of Politics, and the “Foreign Woman”\n24 Golda and the Revival of Feminism\n25 Nightmare: The Yom Kippur War\n26 In the Company of Men\n27 The End\nAcknowledgments\nNotes\nIndex