All Fired Up

In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 34-39

Abstract

Hillary Clinton's solid stance on feminist issues - abortion rights (identical to Obama's) and universal health care and gay rights (to the left of Obama's) - did not put off blue-collar whites and Hispanics, male and female, who were supposed to be conservative on social issues. For the first time in American history, the desire for a fair deal for women - symbolized by this particular woman - migrated out of feminist identity politics into a presidential campaign and won the interest of a huge portion of the electorate. Leaving aside the congressional representatives, few prominent black women remained in Clinton's camp: exceptions who went on record were the ever independent-minded writer Michele Wallace, the artist Faith Ringgold, and the poet Maya Angelou, whom Hillary pressed into service. Adapted from the source document.