The Myth of Hillary Clinton and the Angry White Women
Once we stop viewing the Democratic contest through the identity-politics lens, former Clinton-supporters favoring McCain over Obama isn't all that surprising.
Once we stop viewing the Democratic contest through the identity-politics lens, former Clinton-supporters favoring McCain over Obama isn't all that surprising.
Shireen Mitchell and Adele M. Stan | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
According to Linda Hirshman, we feminists are just too darned concerned about things like civil rights, war and peace, and the fate of the planet. Her evidence that feminism is a failure: Hillary didn't win.
Maegan Carberry | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
The end of Hillary Clinton's candidacy proved that a woman can be just as sneaky and misleading and desperate as a male politician faced with failure and the implosion of a chance at power.
Ayelet Waldman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Because of Hillary and because of the struggle of women like my mother, there will one day, sooner rather than later, be a woman president.
Freada Kapor Klein | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
We can cast a vote backwards in time, declaring that gender wins the 'who's-more-oppressed' game, or recognize that we missed an opportunity to change institutions 30 years ago.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
The word is consensus. It is hard to achieve. But then it's even harder to beat.
Stacie Krajchir | Posted 05.15.2008 | Living
I have been the Fed Ex poster girl for 15 years. I signed up for a Fed Ex account before I ever bought my first laptop or even my first car. Fed Ex is...
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.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home
Many people have become sensitized -- even hypersensitized -- to issues of racism in this campaign, and words and attitudes are being examined and questioned. But sexism seems to go largely unnoticed or, if it is noticed, is dismissed as irrelevant.
Jon Wiener | Posted 02.20.2008 | Home
More than 1,000 feminists have signed a statement criticizing Hillary Clinton and supporting Obama for president - evidence that Clinton's support a...
Marianne Williamson | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
"What! You're not voting for Hillary? But I thought you were such a feminist!" If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times.
Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 02.06.2008 | Media
Americans have been subjected to a litany of misguided media musings about "race and gender" in the 2008 election cycle, which has focused not on these issues but on how politicians can snatch up those constituencies.
Kimberle Crenshaw and Eve Ensler | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
The new players of the troubling "with us or against us" game are no longer the hawkish Republicans but "either/or" feminists determined to see to it that a woman occupies the Oval Office.
Beth Arnold | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton cannot bring our country together. A vote for Hillary in the primaries will help a Republican get elected.
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Lester Feder | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics