“First Lady But Second Fiddle” or the rise and rejection of the political couple in the White House: 1933-today.
The First Lady has emerged as an institution of great influence. Whether out in the open like Hillary Clinton or behind the scenes like Nancy Reagan, most First Ladies have served as their husbands’ most trusted and closest political allies. Thus the modern era has seen the advent of the presidential couple, as symbolically epitomized in the 1990s' neologism “Billary.” It seems, however, that the American public is not ready to accept power-sharing in the White House and that the First Lady, visible and influential though she might be, should not play the role of a co-president. A number of feminists simply propose to “abolish” her.
POSTIMPERIALNI PATRIARHAT IN KARNEVALESKNA
PERIFERIJA: MELANIA TRUMP V TRANSNACIONALNI
JAVNOSTI
Povzetek. Članek obravnava recepcijo prve dame
Melanie Trump v ameriškem in slovenskem javnem
prostoru. Analiza v prvem delu temelji na razčlenitvi
medijskih upodobitev v reviji The New Yorker. V drugem
delu se ukvarja z odzivi v slovenski javnosti s posebnim
poudarkom na dveh spletnih portalih (siol.si in delo.
si). Temeljna ugotovitev primerjave je, da v ameriškem
kontekstu prevladuje distribuiranje medijskih podob
Melanie Trump kot naturalizirane prve dame s koreninami na socialističnem Vzhodu. V slovenskem prostoru
je dejstvo etnične pripadnosti predmet prisvajanja v
nacionalno fantazijo, ki, nasprotno, utrjuje predstavo
o razvezi s socialistično preteklostjo, pri čemer pa se, kot
pokaže primer postavitve kipa v rojstni Sevnici, kažejo
tudi poskusi destabiliziranja dihotomije center-periferija. Študija si na podlagi teh dvoumnih odzivov zastavlja raziskovalno vprašanje usode simbolnega materinstva v dobi transnacionalizacije sodobnih družb.
Ključni pojmi: Melania Trump, prva dama, postsocializem, nacionalizem, spol, Vzhod
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
From the bestselling author of "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys" and "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world. Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president's and first lady's comings and goings, Goodwin paints a detailed, intimate portrait not only of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime but of the Roosevelts themselves and their extraordinary constellation of friends, advisers, and family, many of whom lived with them in the White House. Bringing to bear the tools of both history and biography, "No Ordinary Time" relates the unique story of how Franklin Roosevelt led the nation to victory against seemingly insurmountable odds and, with Eleanor's essential help, forever changed the fabric of American society.