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Matter of Simple Justice:

The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women
  • ISBN-13: 9780271072333
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
  • By Lee Stout
  • Price: AUD $32.99
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  • Local release date: 01/01/2012
  • Format: Paperback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Public administration [JPP]
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Lee Stout is Librarian Emeritus at the Penn State University Libraries. His recent book Ice Cream U: The Story of the Nation’s Most Successful Collegiate Creamery (2009) is also distributed by Penn State Press.

CONTENTS

illustrations

preface

chronology

introduction: The Question and the Answer

part 1 Advancing Women’s Role in Government: Barbara Hackman Franklin

1. Some Historical Background

2. Women’s Appointments and the President’s Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities

3. Setting the Stage for a Program

4. Calling Barbara Franklin: The Initiative Is Under Way

5. The Women’s Program Meets Its Goals

part 2 A Few Good Women in Their Own Words

6. Recounting Early Infl uences and the Special Role of

Women in the Legal Profession

7. Recalling Barriers, Appointments, and Family Impact

8. Considering Networking, the President, and the Impact of the Women’s Program

conclusion: Breaking Barriers and Opening the Floodgates

afterword by barbara hackman franklin

appendix: The “A Few Good Women” Oral History Project

notes

bibliography

index


“Many younger people may not realize what a significant cultural change in women’s rights began with Nixon, and I hope they will find it an illuminating bit of history.”

—Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State

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