Agents of change the women who transformed the CIA
Years after her successful and impactful career at the CIA, Christina Hillsberg became enthralled with the stories of the trailblazing women who forged new paths within the Agency long before she began her career there in the aughts. These were women who sacrificed their personal lives, risked their...
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| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Citadel Press, |c [2025] | |
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| 300 | |a xix, 220 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes glossary (pages 197-199) and questions for discussion (pages 219-220). | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographic references (pages 205-217). | ||
| 520 | |a Years after her successful and impactful career at the CIA, Christina Hillsberg became enthralled with the stories of the trailblazing women who forged new paths within the Agency long before she began her career there in the aughts. These were women who sacrificed their personal lives, risked their safety, defied expectations, and boldly navigated the male-dominated spy organization. Through exclusive interviews with current and former female CIA officers, many of whom have never spoken publicly, Agents of Change tells an enthralling and, at times, disturbing story set against the backdrop of the evolving women's movement. It was in the 1960s, a "secretarial" era, when women first gained a foothold and pushed against the one-dimensional, pop-culture trope of the sexy Cold War Bond Girl. Underestimated but undaunted, they fought their way, decade by decade, through adversity to the top of the spy game. Seamlessly weaving together the individual stories of these exceptional women, Hillsberg deftly tackles not just the fight for gender equality at the CIA but also the current dilemma the Agency faces when dealing with the culmination of a decades-long culture of sexual harassment and assault. Each chapter sheds a light on women's issues during a different decade before bringing to life the stories of female CIA operations officers whose experiences were emblematic of that given era. In this fascinating and empowering chronicle, Hillsberg takes readers inside the Agency in a way that's never been done before, paying long-overdue tribute to the survivors and thrivers, the indispensable groundbreakers, and the defiant rabble-rousers who made the choice to change their lives and, in turn, changed history.--Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword / by Valerie Plame -- Author's note -- Introduction: Sacrifice and gumption -- The secretarial sixties -- The second-wave seventies -- The empowering eighties -- The promising yet problematic nineties -- The terrorism-driven 2000s -- The groundbreaking 2010s -- 2020 and beyond -- Epilogue. | |
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