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A Left Feminist Comment on Supporting Hillary Clinton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2018

Judith Grant*
Affiliation:
Ohio University

Extract

Very little in my adult life has made me feel my feminism so strongly as the 2016 defeat of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And by “defeat,” I mean her utter evisceration by the press, many Bernie Sanders supporters, the Donald Trump campaign, and a shocking number of regular Americans. The disgusting patriarchal bacchanalia that occurred during the campaign has nearly been matched by the attacks on Clinton that have continued since the election. She has been criticized even for writing a memoir of the election, What Happened, a book that has been variously called too long to read (Frank 2017) and an exercise in shifting responsibility (Zurcher 2017).

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2018 

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