The only woman in the room: Golda Meir and her path to power

Introduction

Part I: Growing Up. In Imperial Russia ; To America ; Goldie and Morris Get Married ; Finding Her Vocation : Political Activism

Part II: Palestine, 1921-1948. The USS Pocahontas ; A Sojourn in Tel Aviv ; Comrade Golda and Comrade Morris in Kibbutz Merhavia ; Love and Marriage : Not a Fairy Tale ; The Attraction of Socialist Politics ; Pioneer Women : A Platform of Her Own ; World War II : The Ground Is Burning

Part III: 1948-1964. From Israel's First Emissary to the Soviet Union to Minister of Labor ; In Israel's First Cabinet : Golda Is Appointed Minister of Labor ; Golda's Conception of the Family ; Enter the "Other Woman" : Shabbat, the "Sacred Queen," and the Secular Minister of Labor ; Golda's Appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956 ; Golda's First International Crisis : The Nationalization of the Suez Shipping Company ; The African Connection

Part IV: 1964-1978. Ascendance : Madam Prime Minister ; Golda as an Object of Humiliation ; From Bathtub to Pedestal : An Interview with Oriana Fallaci ; Golda and Her Nemesis : Shulamit Aloni and the Question of Who Is a Jew ; Who Is a Jew? Individual Rights, Jewish Law, the Expediency of Politics, and the "Foreign Woman" ; Golda and the Revival of Feminism ; Nightmare : The Yom Kippur War ; In the Company of Men ; The End.