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

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

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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
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition
Extent
336 pages
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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9781439150283
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Big girls don't cry : the election that changed everything for American women
Title
Big girls don't cry
Title remainder
the election that changed everything for American women
Statement of responsibility
Rebecca Traister
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Subject
Language
eng
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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Traister, Rebecca
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Clinton, Hillary Rodham
  • Palin, Sarah
  • Obama, Michelle
  • Presidents
  • Women
  • Feminism
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Big girls don't cry : the election that changed everything for American women, Rebecca Traister
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-315) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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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
Control code
429025297
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition
Extent
336 pages
Isbn
9781439150283
Lccn
2010009631
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
Big girls don't cry : the election that changed everything for American women, Rebecca Traister
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-315) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
429025297
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition
Extent
336 pages
Isbn
9781439150283
Lccn
2010009631
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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