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Title:

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

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Presidents--United States--Election--2008.
Presidential candidates--United States--History--21st century.
Feminists--United States--History--21st century.
Obama, Barack.
Clinton, Hillary Rodham.

Other Authors:

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly.
Cole, Johnnetta B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

143843376X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781438433769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1438433751 (alk. paper)
9781438433752 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)580088278

LCCN:

2010008243

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)