Who should be first? : feminists speak out on the 2008 presidential campaign / edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Betsch Cole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cole, Johnnetta B.

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminists--United States--History--21st century.

Feminists.

Presidential candidates--United States--History--21st century.

Presidential candidates.

Presidents--United States--Election--2008.

Presidents.

Clinton, Hillary Rodham.

Obama, Barack.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Contents:

Feminists for peace and Barack Obama / Frances Anderson ... [et al.]

Feminists for Clinton / Christine Stansell

Stop the false race-gender divide / Ann Russo and Melissa Spatz

Morning in America: a letter from feminists on the election / Patricia J. Williams

Duel of historical guilts / Maureen Dowd

It's not as simple as white trumping black or man trumping woman / Patricia J. Williams

Sex versus race, again / Tracy A. Thomas

Obama and the sisters / Melissa Harris-Lacewell

Lest we forget: an open letter to my sisters who are brave / Alice Walker

Culture trumps politics and gender trumps race / Carol Moseley Braun

What would Shirley Chisholm say? / Mark Anthony Neal

Voting for the girl: some thoughts on sisterhood and citizenship / Pearl Cleage

The sisterhood split / Jessica Valenti

Hillary versus the patriarchy / Erica Jong

Hillary is white / Zillah Eisenstein

Your whiteness is showing / Tim Wise

Black and for Hillary / Tara Roberts

Why I support Obama / Andrea Guerrero

Daughters of the south, rise up: on generation, gender, and race in the 200.8 Democratic election / Cassie Premo Steele

Generation Y refuses race-gender dichotomy / Courtney E. Martin

Why I'm supporting Barack Obama / Katha Pollitt

The Obama feminists: why young women are supporting Obama / Ariel Garfinkel

Yo mamma / Linda Hirshman

Feminists must heal the wounds of racism / Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Crises of representation: hate messages in campaign 2008 commercial paraphernalia / Jane Caputi

Goodbye to all that #2 / Robin Morgan

Race to the bottom / Betsy Reed

Intersectionality: race and gender in the 2008 presidential nomination campaign / Dianne M. Pinderhughes

Does race trump gender?: Black women negotiating their spaces of intersection in the 2008 presidential campaign / Cynthia Neal Spence

The generation gap: graduate students and democratic primaries spring 2008 / A. Lynn Bolles

Michelle Obama on my mind / Arica L. Coleman

Why we need to stop obsessing over Obama / Andrea Smith

Learning from a year of hope and hard choices / Gloria Steinem

Reading Obama: collective responsibilities and the politics of tears / M. Jacqui Alexander, Gail Lewis, and Gloria Wekker

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438433738

1438433735

9781441669599

1441669590

OCLC:

658060891