Big girls don't cry : the election that changed everything for American women / Rebecca Traister.
2010
JK276 2008 .T73 2010 (Mapit)
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Big girls don't cry : the election that changed everything for American women / Rebecca Traister.
Author
Traister, Rebecca.
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
ISBN
9781439150283
1439150281
1439150281
Publication Details
New York : Free Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
336 p. ; 24 cm.
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JK276 2008 .T73 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
324.973/0931
Summary
It was all as unpredictable as it was riveting: Hillary Clinton's improbable rise, her fall and her insistence on pushing forward straight through to her remarkable phoenix flight from the race; Sarah Palin's attempt not only to fill the void left by Clinton, but to alter the very definition of feminism and claim some version of it for conservatives; liberal rapture over Barack Obama and the historic election of our first African-American president; the media microscope trained on Michelle Obama, harsher even than the one Hillary had endured fifteen years earlier. Meanwhile, media women like Katie Couric and Rachel Maddow altered the course of the election, and comedians like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler helped make feminism funny. As Traister sees it, the 2008 election was good for women. The campaign for the presidency reopened some of the most fraught American conversations about gender, race and generational difference, about sexism on the left and feminism on the right, all difficult discussions that had been left unfinished but that are crucial to further perfecting our union.
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Table of Contents
Hillary is us
Spousal supports
Campaigning while female
Five days in January
The most restricting forces
All about their mothers
Boys on the bus
Things to do in Denver if you're female
Enter Palin
Pop culture warriors
The next wave is here
The aftermath.
Spousal supports
Campaigning while female
Five days in January
The most restricting forces
All about their mothers
Boys on the bus
Things to do in Denver if you're female
Enter Palin
Pop culture warriors
The next wave is here
The aftermath.