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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460033803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-4384-3373-5; 1-4416-6959-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ColeJohnnetta B; Guy-SheftallBeverly
• Disciplina: 324.973/0931
• Soggetti: Feminists - United States - History - 21st century; Presidential candidates - United States - History - 21st century; Presidents - United States - Election - 2008; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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