With Grit and By Grace

by Roberts, Betty

• ISBN13: 9780870711992
• ISBN10: 0870711997
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Oregon State Univ Pr

Summary

In the 1950s, Betty Roberts did what most of her contemporaries considered audacious and inappropriate when she returned to college as a 32-year-old wife and mother. This was only the start of Roberts' lifetime commitment to overcoming obstacles to women's equality.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xii
Bloodlines and Clotheslines	p. 1
A New Deal, War and Marriage	p. 15
Hello, Oregon	p. 24
Daring Decisions	p. 31
Can't Is Not An Option	p. 43
Learning to Campaign	p. 56
Rookie Legislator: The 1965 Session	p. 67
Seasoned Legislator, New Lawyer	p. 81
Severing Past from Future	p. 95
Breaking the Silence: The 1969 Session	p. 109
Changing Times	p. 121
Turning Points	p. 135
When Everything Was Possible	p. 147
Give Me Liberty, or Get Out of the Way	p. 159
Running for Governor	p. 173
So Soon Another Chance	p. 185
Back to Basics	p. 197
"Ladies Were Not Expected"	p. 209
Transformation on the Court	p. 222
On Being a Justice and Doing Justly	p. 237
Resignation, Rescue, Rediscovery	p. 253
For All Those Who Helped	p. 266
Notes	p. 267
Index	p. 272
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