All Fired Up: Women, Feminism, and Misogyny in the Democratic Primaries

In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 34-39

Abstract

Think back to a year and a half ago, to spring 2007, when this all began. Despite Hillary Clinton's advantages in connections and money going into the primaries, those in the know cited a multitude of reasons she would fall flat on her face. Women were one. "Women don't like her," the pundits declared with relish. They didn't like her even more than men didn't like her. She was too ambitious, a flip-flopper, a trimmer, an opportunist. She didn't deserve to be where she was. She should have left Bill years ago.