Private Woman In Public Spaces

This provocative and creative work offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jordan’s written speeches, with particular emphasis on the period that begins with the Watergate years and ends with her immigration initiatives. Ethics, public religion, and the law are the three themes that predominate in her immigration initiatives. Ethics, public religion, and law are the three themes that predominate in Jordan’s speeches. On these themes, Jordan’s voice is heard in juxtapostion with contemporaries Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Thurgood Marshall, Rabbi Abraham Hershel, bell hooks, and others.