Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American WomenSimon and Schuster, 07/06/2011 - 352 من الصفحات Journalist and Salon writer Rebecca Traister investigates the 2008 presidential election and its impact on American politics, women and cultural feminism. Examining the role of women in the campaign, from Clinton and Palin to Tina Fey and young voters, Traister confronts the tough questions of what it means to be a woman in today’s America. The 2008 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—difficult discussions that had been left unfinished but that are crucial to further perfecting our union. Though the election didn’t give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don’t Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative in ways that no one anticipated. Throughout the book, Traister weaves in her own experience as a thirtysomething feminist sorting through all the events and media coverage—vacillating between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and questioning her own view of feminism, the women’s movement, race and the different generational perspectives of women working toward political parity. Electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining, Big Girls Don’t Cry offers an enduring portrait of dramatic cultural and political shifts brought about by this most historic of American contests. |
المحتوى
introduction | 1 |
Hillary is Us | 11 |
spousal supports | 35 |
Campaigning While Female | 63 |
Five Days in January | 85 |
the Most restricting Forces | 107 |
All About their Mothers | 137 |
Boys on the Bus | 165 |
Enter Palin | 221 |
Pop Culture Warriors | 239 |
the next Wave is Here | 269 |
the Aftermath | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 301 |
note on the Authors Use of Her Previously Published Work | 303 |
305 | |
317 | |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
American appeared asked Barack Obama become began believed better Bill called campaign candidate choice critics crowd Democratic described don’t edwards election fact feel felt female feminism feminist former friends gender girl Gloria going guys Hampshire Hillary Clinton Hillary’s hope husband idea included Iowa issues John kind Knox later less liberal lives look male March McCain Michelle misogyny months mother move movement never night Palin party perhaps person piece played political position president presidential primary progressive question race remarks reported Republican responded running Sarah Palin seemed Senator sexism social speak speech Steinem story talking tell thing thought tion told took trying turned vote voters watching White House wife woman women writing wrote York young women