The Republican war againstwomen

by Tanya Melich

For over a quarter century Republican insider Tanya Melich had been a loyal player in her party's politics. But as a delegate to the 1992 presidential convention, Melich found herself growing increasingly disillusioned by the direction her party had taken. Suddenly it seemed the Republican credo was no longer "with malice toward none, with charity for all." Instead, the Grand Old Party, pressed by the religious right, had adopted a divisive strategy that deliberately intensified hostility between the sexes - and that was only the beginning. In her acclaimed book, Melich cites chapter, verse, and the actions of participants to document the GOP's twenty-year history of hypocrisy toward women. From its ongoing efforts to curtail programs that could empower women to its deliberate exploitation of antifeminist fears to garner votes, she shows how the Republican Party has been consistently undermining American women. Powerful and persuasive, this updated edition of The Republican War Against