“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics
"BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women."
Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press.
In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the 2008 Presidential election, to tell the story "about the country and its culture, how we all reacted to the arrival of these surprising new figures on the presidential stage and what they showed us about how far we had come and how far we had yet to go." She does an extremely good job of reaching that goal for most of us.
Traister basic contexts are gender politics (including but not narrowly defined by feminism and misogyny), race (including but not narrowly defined by racism), and inter-generational perspectives.
She observes that Hillary Clinton, who would put 18 million cracks in the hig...