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Big girls don't cry, the election that changed everything for American women, Rebecca Traister

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Big girls don't cry, the election that changed everything for American women, Rebecca Traister

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-315) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Big girls don't cry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

429025297

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Traister

Sub title

the election that changed everything for American women

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

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

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Big girls do not cry

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