Big Girls Don’t Cry Pdf Summary Reviews By Rebecca Traister

Big Girls Don’t Cry Pdf Summary

Journalist and Salon writer Rebecca Traister investigates the 2008 presidential election and its impact on American politics, women and cultural feminism. Examining the role of women in the campaign, from Clinton and Palin to Tina Fey and young voters, Traister confronts the tough questions of what it means to be a woman in today’s America.

The 2008 campaign for the presidency reopened some of the most fraught American conversations—about gender, race and generational difference, about sexism on the left and feminism on the right—difficult discussions that had been left unfinished but that are crucial to further perfecting our union. Though the election didn’t give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don’t Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative in ways that no one anticipated.

Throughout the book, Traister weaves in her own experience as a thirtysomething feminist sorting through all the events and media coverage—vacillating between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and questioning her own view of feminism, the women’s movement, race and the different generational perspectives of women working toward political parity. Electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining, Big Girls Don’t Cry offers an enduring portrait of dramatic cultural and political shifts brought about by this most historic of American contests.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Perspective of the 2008 Campaign
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2010

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Rebecca Traister has really hit home in this book. Traister writes a fantastic account of the 2008 election and why Hillary couldn’t win. Unlike Traister I was a Hillary supporter from the start, and still am. I am very proud that she ran, she not only ran, but she ran until she gave her delegates to Obama at the DNC. She didn’t give up, just because she was told to, she didn’t give up after sexist remarks, she didn’t give up because it was expected of her, and she was in it until the end.

Traister writes in her book that she didn’t want to vote for Hillary just because she was a woman. But after reading the book I wonder if woman didn’t vote for her because Hillary didn’t add up to the idealized woman that some feminist wanted?

Traister writes and honest look at her own turn from an Edwards supporter to a Hillary supporter.
She describes the blatant t sexism, not only where woman expect it, but from they weren’t expecting it, most notably progressive men’s descriptions and outright hate for Hillary.

This book is a must read for any political junkie, or those who care about gender issues in this country. I would like to send this book to several male politicians out there.

Traister said one thing that I agree with, we shouldn’t vote for a woman just because she is a woman, but we should consider why we are voting for her.

There were some places that I disagreed with her but overall I liked this book.
Women have come a long way but there still needs to be more work.

Franklin the Mouse

5.0 out of 5 stars You Go Girl… Ehhhh… Girls (A Male Perspective)
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2011

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Ms. Traister’s part memoir, part campaign analysis is a very astute, level-headed observation of what occurred during the 2008 Presidential campaign. The author, a Democrat, talks about the internal conflicts felt by many women who had to choose between Senators Clinton or Obama. The truly historic campaign opened up old wounds, highlighted the different generational perspectives about what it meant to be a feminist as well as the huge gap between expectations and the realities of actually having to govern? Though many women are discussed, the book’s primary focus is on Senator Clinton, Governor Palin and Ms. Obama. I vividly recall the level of misogynistic vitriol directed especially towards Senator Clinton by politicians, the populace, pundits and even the news organizations who should have known better during the campaign. It was shocking and discouraging. My positive assumptions about how open-minded we had become as a nation when it came women’s roles took a major hit. Fortunately, Ms. Traister’s book is ultimately a positive, uplifting look at where we were, where we are and how things are getting better. I came away admiring all the women for their resolve to not be pushed to the sidelines. A wonderful, thought-provoking book by a talented, 36-year-old feminist.


Sharon

5.0 out of 5 stars The best explanation of the machinations behind 2008 election, EVER!
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2012

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If you can read this book and NOT get all riled up (as we say here in Kentucky) about the scumbags and poop-stirrers that operate this nation’s media, there’s something seriously wrong with you! The media moguls are hell-bent on conspiring to get whom they want into positions of power in Washington, and you and I have very little to do with it. You will see first hand how they pilloried Hillary, regardless of what you think of her. The process is the same!! In this amazingly well-documented book, the superb writer Rebecca Traitser exposes the media-dominated opinion polls, their maneuvering to make certain candidates look, if not unappealing, then downright malevolent. Traitser lets the reader look into the conservative camp as well as the liberal one. It’s politics as we’ve seldom ever seen, but should see, like a 24-hour a day, 7 day a week airing of a Frontline devoted to the subject. It will make you stop and ask, is the US population just a bunch of uneducated, uncaring, uninvolved do-nothings? Geez, I Hope not.Take your fingers off your I-whatevers, and THINK!!!

About Rebecca Traister Author Of Big Girls Don’t Cry pdf Book

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rebecca traister

Rebecca Traister Author Of Big Girls Don’t Cry pdf Book writes about politics and gender for Salon, and has contributed to the New York Observer, Elle, the New York Times, Vogue, the Nation and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband.

Big Girls Don’t Cry pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information

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Big Girls Don’t Cry pdf book
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press; Reprint edition (June 7, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 143915029X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439150290
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.44 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #1,351,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1,455 in Elections
  • #2,800 in Feminist Theory (Books)
  • #4,693 in Women in History
  • Customer Reviews: 4.2 out of 5 stars    56 ratings

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