000439001 000__ 03921cam\a2200481\a\4500 000439001 001__ 439001 000439001 005__ 20210513153019.0 000439001 006__ m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ 000439001 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000439001 008__ 120605s2011\\\\txua\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000439001 010__ $$z 2010053056 000439001 020__ $$a9781603444217 (electronic bk.) 000439001 020__ $$z9781603442848 000439001 020__ $$z1603442847 000439001 020__ $$z9781603442855 (pbk.) 000439001 020__ $$z1603442855 (pbk.) 000439001 020__ $$z9781603444224 (electronic bk.) 000439001 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn757669344 000439001 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492844 000439001 035__ $$a439001 000439001 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000439001 043__ $$an-us--- 000439001 05014 $$aE176.2$$b.B67 2011eb 000439001 08204 $$a973.09/9$$222 000439001 1001_ $$aBorrelli, MaryAnne. 000439001 24514 $$aThe politics of the president's wife$$h[electronic resource] /$$cMaryAnne Borrelli. 000439001 250__ $$a1st ed. 000439001 260__ $$aCollege Station [Tex.] :$$bTexas A&M University Press,$$c2011. 000439001 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 252 p.) :$$bill. 000439001 440_0 $$aJoseph V. Hughes, Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership 000439001 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000439001 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Before they were First Ladies -- The nation's hostess: the First Lady and symbolic representation -- Voice and message: the First Lady and descriptive representation -- Gender and policy: the First Lady and substantive representation -- Conclusion. 000439001 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000439001 520__ $$aAs the West Wing has grown in power and organizational complexity during the modern presidency, so has the East Wing, office home to the First Lady of the United States. This groundbreaking work by MaryAnne Borrelli offers both theoretical and substantive insight into behind-the-scenes developments from the time of Lou Henry Hoover to the unfolding tenure of Michelle Robinson Obama. Political scientists and historians have recognized the personal influence the First Lady can exercise with her husband, and they have noted the moral, ethical, and sometimes policy leadership certain presidentsʼ wives have offered. Nonetheless, scholars and commentators alike have treated the personal relationship and the professional relationship as overlapping. Borrelli offers a compelling counter-perspective: that the presidentʼs wife exercises power intrinsic to her role within the administration. Like others within the presidency, she has sometimes presented the presidentʼs views to constituents and sometimes presented constituentsʼ views to the president, thus taking on a representative function within the system. In mediating president-constituent relationships, she has given a historical and social frame to the presidency that has enhanced its symbolic representation; she has served as a gender role model, enriching descriptive representation in the executive branch; and she has participated in policy initiatives to strengthen an administrationʼs substantive representation. These contributions have been controversial, as might be predicted for a gender outsider, but they have unquestionably made the First Lady a representative of and to the president and, by extension, the presidentʼs administration. 000439001 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000439001 650_0 $$aPresidents' spouses$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000439001 650_0 $$aPresidents' spouses$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y21st century. 000439001 650_0 $$aWomen$$xPolitical activity$$zUnited States. 000439001 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000439001 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aBorrelli, MaryAnne.$$tPolitics of the president's wife.$$b1st ed.$$dCollege Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011$$z9781603442848$$z9781603442855$$w(DLC) 2010053056$$w(OCoLC)694616490 000439001 8520_ $$bacq 000439001 85280 $$bebk$$hProquest Ebook Central 000439001 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3038032$$zOnline Access 000439001 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:439001$$pGLOBAL_SET 000439001 980__ $$aEBOOK 000439001 980__ $$aBIB 000439001 982__ $$aEbook 000439001 983__ $$aOnline