2008 Election and Gender

The Myth of Hillary Clinton and the Angry White Women

Lester Feder | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

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Once we stop viewing the Democratic contest through the identity-politics lens, former Clinton-supporters favoring McCain over Obama isn't all that surprising.

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Obama's Dignified Calm

Peter Clothier | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Clinton can't blame the media, sexism, or others for the failure. She started out an easy frontrunner, with the full weight of the party machinery behind her. It was hers to lose, and she lost it.

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Open Letter to Hillary

Ilana Goldman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Dear Hillary - I say this to you almost daily, but since it's normally to you on the TV screen, I thought I should find a way of saying it where you...

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Did Hillary Clinton's Media Missteps Help Doom Her Campaign?

Eric Deggans | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media

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It remains an enduring legacy of the conservative media machine -- and their own past mistakes -- that a couple so admired by the public has such awful relations with the Fourth Estate.

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Final Thoughts on Sex and the City

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 06.03.2008 | Entertainment

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Something big is happening and SATC didn't cause it, it just reflects it. Whether or not you are a Hillary fan, there is a gender conversation happening in this country, and women are angry.

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Want to See Sexism? Try Calling Your Opponent a Ditz and Joking About Clinton's Death

Matt Stoller | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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These videos are really quite stunning. Rep. Dave Reichert's jokes about Hillary Clinton dying are just the latest in a career of using sexist slurs and innuendo to deny women full equality.

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Unmasking McCain: His Reactionary Record on Reproductive Rights

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

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Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really?

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Does Clinton Camp Talk of Sexism Risk the Democrats' Future?

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.

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Hillary Clinton's Defeat: A Historic Triumph

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

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I have regularly criticized Clinton over the course of her campaign, but there is no question that she has forever altered the way women running for president will be viewed.

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Zogby Polling: Women Deserting Hillary?

Rob Kall | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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Frankly, it's hard to believe that Hillary has lost the edge in the female vote, but checking the progression over the past few days seems to bear this out. Of course, Zogby's polling sample may be off.

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Who Will Nominate A Woman To The U.S. Supreme Court?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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While we're busy wondering who likes guns more, and who has the most problematic pastor, we ought to put some thought into this.

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On Sexist Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media

Clinton's run for the Democratic nomination has been awash with the most dispiriting ridicule I have seen in my (albeit short) lifetime.

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The Real Feminist Thing To Do is Acknowledge Hillary's Failures as a Candidate and Move On

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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If feminists want Clinton to be seen as anything other than a token we need to recognize her merits, analyze her campaign's faults, and move on, as if a woman losing were the most normal thing in the world.

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Leading Like a Girl: For Men Only?

Marie Wilson | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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While men seem to be incorporating the best of what women already know and do, women themselves are still feeling the pressure to deny traits associated with their gender to get ahead.

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Why A Woman In The White House?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

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Why not a woman for president? How long must we wait? Who will be good enough? Does such a woman exist?

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The Diva's Camp: The Appeal of Hillary Clinton

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton is possessed by the spirit of Joan Crawford. Like that notorious über-bitch immortalized by Faye Dunaway in the camp clas...

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Standing Sexual Politics on Its Head

Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.

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Calling "These People" Out: More On the Increasingly Tiresome -- And Dangerous -- Obama/Clinton Divide

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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The pundits would like to see (and, sadly, are now seeing) women tearing each other apart, in this election season, within variously productive and destructive discourses of identity politics.

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Me and Anonymous: A Conversation

Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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The suggestion that women are monolithic and asleep and need to "wake up" is part of the problem endemic to Second Wave Feminism.

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Remember the Ladies

Marie Wilson | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Centuries have passed, but Abigail Adams' plea -- "Remember the ladies" -- resonates today, when women continue to struggle to ascend to the positions of leadership they deserve.

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Playing Political Catch Up with the Rest of the World

Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Women leaders in the third world have often succeeded in gaining support because their leadership emerged not only out of local women's movements, but in the context of broader political struggles.

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Mars, Venus and the Election

Bob Franken | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Now that we've heard Obama's speech on racial antagonism in America, it's time for the address from Hillary on the division that is even deeper in our country -- the divide over gender.

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Women of My Generation Have Clearly Lost Their Minds

Lynda Obst | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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Hillary, as strong as she is, wins as a victim. That is the trajectory of her career: I am a victim. Punch. So why are women whining and identifying with being the victim again?

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Ferraro's Race Argument Isn't Insulting to Obama; It's Insulting to Democrats

Eric Deggans | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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This is the way Dems will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in this election: allowing dunderheads like Ferraro to drive wedges between a coalition poised to unseat the Republicans in November.

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Sexistentialist, Genderista or Thoughtful Voter?

Paula Gordon | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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Clinton's gender neither gives her a pass nor does it distract me, any more than it excuses the ugliness Ann Coulter and other wrong-wing women smear across the nation.

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