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100 1 $aTraister, Rebecca.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010015007
245 10 $aBig girls don't cry :$bthe election that changed everything for American women /$cRebecca Traister.
250 $a1st Free Press hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c2010.
300 $a336 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-315) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tHillary Is Us -- $g2.$tSpousal Supports -- $g3.$tCampaigning While Female -- $g4.$tFive Days in January -- $g5.$tThe Most Restricting Forces -- $g6.$tAll About Their Mothers -- $g7.$tBoys on the Bus -- $g8.$tThings to Do in Denver If You're Female -- $g9.$tEnter Palin -- $g10.$tPop Culture Warriors -- $g11.$tThe Next Wave Is Here -- $g12.$tThe Aftermath.
520 1 $a""Rebecca Traister's lively, insightful narrative discloses an underreported layer of the 2008 presidential campaigna︣nd in so doing makes the subject fresh and vital again. An important and disquieting book, but also a pleasure to read."R︣obert Draper, Author Of Dead Certain" ""Traister is a clear-eyed, whip-smart observer of the political scene, alert to the resurgence of identity politics as well as the recrudescence of feminism that marked the most recent presidential campaign. She has fashioned a remarkably engrossing page-turner of a cultural narrative, one which features outsize characters and unpredictable plot twists. Big Girls Don't Cry is a report on the 2008 election, but more important, it is a report on the way we think now. If you want to understand where we are going as an electoral entityw︣hy Sarah Palin is the folk heroine du jour and why Michelle Obama has domesticated her freethinking personar︣ead this book."D︣aphne Merkin, Novelist And Critic" ""The startling intelligence and graceful prose of Rebecca Traister's coverage of American cultural politics has been one of journalism's best kept secrets during the past decade. With Big Girls Don't Cry she claims her place as heir to the tradition of Mary McCarthy and Joan Didion as she excavates the tectonic changes that lurked below the surface of most election reporting and illuminates events in a manner that will surprise political junkies and casual observers alike."-Eric Alterman, Author of Why We're Liberals" ""Rebecca Traister is the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country. I was totally caught up in Big Girls Don't Cry from the first page and couldn't believe how much Ms. Traister captured and illuminated a story which I had though was so well versed: the 2008 election. She told it as if for the first time."-Anne Lamott, Author of Bird by Bird" "Rebecca Traister, whose coverage of the 2008 presidential election for Salon confirmed her to be a gifted cultural observer, offers a startling appraisal of what the campaign meant for all of us. Though the election didn't give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don't Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country's narrative in ways that no one anticipated." "It was all as unpredictable as it was riveting: Hillary Clinton's improbable rise, her fall and her insistence (to the consternation of her party and the media) 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." "What did all this mean to the millions of people who were glued to their TV sets, and for the country, its history and its future?" "As Traister sees it, the 2008 election was good for women. The campaign for the presidency reopened some of the most fraught American conversationsa︣bout gender, race and generational difference, about sexism on the left and feminism on the rightd︣ifficult discussions that had been left unfinished but that are crucial to further perfecting our union." "The election was also catalytic, shaping the perspectives of American women and men from different generations and backgrounds, altering the way that all of us will approach questions of women and power far into the future. When Clinton cried, when Palin reached for her newborn at the end of a vice presidential debate, when Couric asked a series of campaign-ending questions, the whole country was watching women's historyA︣merican historyb︣eing made." "Throughout, Traister weaves in her own experience as a thirty something feminist sorting through all the events and media coveragev︣acillating between Clinton and Obama and forced to face tough questions about her own feminism, the women's movement, race and the different generational perspectives of women working toward political parity some ninety years after their sex was first enfranchised." "It was a time of enormous change, and there is no better guide through that explosive, infuriating, heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious year than Rebecca Traister. Big Girls Don't Cry offers an enduring portrait of dramatic cultural and political shifts brought about by this most historic of American contests."--BOOK JACKET.
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