Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism, an open-access feature of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, offers brief comments from prominent feminists about a book that has shaped popular conversations about feminist issues.
The book hasn’t even come out yet, but it is already being “reviewed” in the conservative press. A small sampling: Damon Linker, in the Week: “There is not a chance in the world that Clinton’s memoir will frankly examine and reflect on the true causes of her catastrophic defeat.”
Now that we know for sure that the FBI is conducting an investigation into any connections and “coordination” between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, pundits are asking—though not answering—the question of whether Russia’s efforts to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign had any effect on the outcome of the election. No one wants to speculate, no one wants to “re-litigate.” “The past is past,” they say. The fact is that a smart ten-year-old can see how implausible it is to imagine that the continued assault on Hillary’s credibility wouldn’t have had an impact on the election. The evidence is circumstantial—but it’s massive, and accumulating all the time.
Feminist writer Susan Bordo wrote a book about Anne Boleyn. Then the Tudor queen’s travails began to chime with those of Hillary Clinton
“The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president, and they’re not.”
“The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them.The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president, and they’re not.”
Last night, at a celebration for veterans and the “faith community,” Trump came closer than he ever has to revealing both his creepy monarchical fantasy of what it means to be president — “L’état, c’est moi” — and the juvenile emotional life that rules his own behavior.
During the past couple of months, Hillary Clinton has come “out of the woods” to deliver several speeches and give three fascinating interviews in which she said what everyone who has paid any attention to post-election revelations should know: her loss in 2016 was not due to any one factor, but an over-determined pile-on that few candidates could have weathered — and that she almost did overcome, even so.
During the past couple of months, Hillary Clinton has come “out of the woods” to deliver several speeches and give three fascinating interviews in which she said what everyone who has paid any attention to post-election revelations should know: her loss in 2016 was not due to any one factor, but an over-determined pile-on that few candidates could have weathered—and that she almost did overcome, even so.
Regardless of your politics, regardless of her politics, it’s hard to argue that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been on the receiving end of a constant and deep misogyny from across the political spectrum, Left, Right, and Center. And when it comes to the media, it’s a frozen narrative–Hillary Clinton’s negative press is nearly always focused on the ways she is the wrong kind of woman no matter how “woman” is defined.
