Full name: Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

Author: Rebecca Traister Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Feminism, Politics, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400118007 9781439150290 140011800X 143915029X

In the last two years, the United States--its history, assumptions, prejudices, and vocabulary--have all cracked open. A woman won a state presidential primary contest (quite a few of them, actually) for the first time in this country's history. Less than a year later, a vice-presidential candidate concluded her appearance in a national debate and immediately reached for her newborn baby. A few months after that, an African American woman moved into the White House not as an employee but as the First Lady. She is only the third First Lady in American history to have a postgraduate degree, and for most of her marriage, she has out-earned her husband. In Big Girls Don't Cry, Rebecca Traister, a Salon.com columnist whose election coverage garnered much attention, makes sense of this moment in American history, in which women broke barriers and changed the country's narrative in completely unexpected ways: How did the volatile, exhilarating events of the 2008 election fit together? What lessons can be learned from these great political upheavals about women, politics, and the media? In an utterly engaging, razor-sharp narrative interlaced with her first-person account of being a young woman navigating this turbulent and exciting time, Traister explores how--thanks to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, and the history-making work and visibility of Michelle Obama, Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow, Katie Couric, and others--women began to emerge stronger than ever on the national stage. Similar books: Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers Women & Power by Mary Beard The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi Old School by Bill O'Reilly The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich Shattered by Jonathan Allen Subject to Debate by Katha Pollitt All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister Pro by Katha Pollitt Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones Rogue States by Noam Chomsky What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer Dark Money by Jane Mayer Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg Between Two Worlds by Zainab Salbi The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli Mankiller by Wilma Mankiller