The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power
Publishing Details
The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power
By (Author) New York Times
Abrams
Abrams Image
15th December 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
328.730082
Physical Properties
208
Width 178mm, Height 229mm
Description
A celebration of the history-making women of the 116th Congress, who stand as a testament to what power looks and sounds like in 2019 The first woman Speaker of the House. The first female combat veteran. The first Native American women. The first Muslim women. The first openly gay member of the Senate. These are just some of the remarkable firsts represented by the women of the 116th Congress, the most diverse and inclusive in American history. Just over a century ago, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won a seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the first woman ever elected to federal office. In 1917, 128 years after the first United States Congress convened, she was sworn into its 65th session. One hundred and two years later, one has become 131-the number of women serving in both chambers of the 116th Congress as of 2019. For most of recorded American history, political power has looked a certain way. But the 2018 midterm elections brought a seismic change. This book, a collaboration between New York Times photo editors Beth Flynn and and Marisa Schwartz Taylor and photographers Elizabeth D. Herman and Celeste Sloman, documents the women of the 116th Congress in their totality, photographed in the style of historical portrait paintings commonly seen in the halls of power to highlight the stark difference between how we've historically viewed governance and how it has evolved.The Women of the 116th Congress is a testament to what representation in the United States looks and sounds like in 2019-and the possibilities of what it may look like in the years to come.
Reviews
This hardcover book captures the scale of these collective womens achievement, and it puts a feminine face on power. * The Associated Press *
Author Bio
Roxane Gay is a professor, editor, and the New York Timesbestselling author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, and Difficult Women. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
