From the US workplace to the international arena, the Bush administration has wrapped female-friendly rhetoric around some of the most hard-core policy since Ronald Reagan. A bombing campaign abroad was cast as a crusade to liberate Afghan women; a push to roll back reproductive rights was characterized as "protection" for women and fetuses at home. The BUSHWOMEN--women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinet--are a strange breed. Highly-placed yet under-covered, they are fronts for an extremist administration, one that's lawyered by anti-civil rights, anti-government radicals, and fuelled by the theocratic Right. Who are the BUSHWOMEN? Laura Flanders investigates how they rose to high office, where they might be headed, and whether their power is a victory for women's equality. Find out about Secretary of the Interior Gale Ann Norton, dubbed "The Woman from Marlboro Country" by her environmentalist foes; Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, who bullied union longshoreworkers to the benefit of her trading-with-China family and friends; Condoleezza Rice and her passion for oil (Chevron named a tanker after her, ) and football (she says it's just like war); Lynne Cheney's lesbian novel; and how Karen Hughes got her first job thanks to NOW--all revealing the cynicism of the Right's crusade to win moderate women voters and put a female face on anti-feminist policy.

The Bushwomen--women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinet--are a strange breed. Flanders investigates how they rose to high office, where they might be headed, and whether their power is a victory for women's equality.

Radical journalist Laura Flanders exposes the seedy, cynical and power hungry history of the women in the Bush administration. "Bushwomen": women appointed to the inner circle of Bush's cabinet and sub-cabinet, who front extremist policies, but allow them to be wrapped in female friendly rhetoric.

Investigates the role of women in the Bush administration and where their real loyalties lie. "Laura Flander's voice is a desperately needed beacon of clarity and common sense" Susan Faludi