Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813178394
Pub Date: 21 Jan 2020
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Illustrations: 10 b&w photos, 1 table
Description:
"It used to be," soon-to-be secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright said in 1996, "that the only way a woman could truly make her foreign policy views felt was by marrying a diplomat and then pouring tea on an offending ambassador's lap."This world of US diplomacy excluded women for a variety of misguided reasons: they would let their emotions interfere with the task of diplomacy, they were not up to the deadly risks that could arise overseas, and they would be unable to cultivate the social contacts vital to success in the field.