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 06.19.2008 | 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 06.17.2008 | 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.
Freada Kapor Klein | Posted 06.05.2008 | 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 05.30.2008 | Politics
The word is consensus. It is hard to achieve. But then it's even harder to beat.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.12.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | Home
More than 1,000 feminists have signed a statement criticizing Hillary Clinton and supporting Obama for president - evidence that Clinton's support a...
Lester Feder | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics