Obama Clinton Palin Making History in Elections 2008 1st Edition by Liette Gidlow ISBN 0252093658 9780252093654

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ISBN 10: 0252093658 

ISBN 13: 9780252093654

Author:  Liette Gidlow 

Election 2008 made American history, but it was also the product of American history. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin smashed through some of the most enduring barriers to high political office, but their exceptional candidacies did not come out of nowhere. In these timely and accessible essays, a distinguished group of historians explores how the candidates both challenged and reinforced historic stereotypes of race and sex while echoing familiar themes in American politics and exploiting new digital technologies. Contributors include Kathryn Kish Sklar on Clinton’s gender masquerade; Tiffany Ruby Patterson on the politics of black anger; Mitch Kachun on Michelle Obama and stereotypes about black women’s bodies; Glenda E. Gilmore on black women’s century of effort to expand political opportunities for African Americans; Tera W. Hunter on the lost legacy of Shirley Chisholm; Susan M. Hartmann on why the U.S. has not yet followed western democracies in electing a female head of state; Melanie Gustafson on Palin and the political traditions of the American West; Ronald Formisano on the populist resurgence in 2008; Paula Baker on how digital technologies threaten the secret ballot; Catherine E. Rymph on Palin’s distinctive brand of political feminism; and Elisabeth I. Perry on the new look of American leadership.

Table of contents:

Part I. Representations: Is Hillary Man Enough? Is Barack Black Enough? Is Michelle the New Jacqueline Kennedy?
1. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Race Question, and the “Masculine Mystique”
2. Barack Obama and the Politics of Anger
3. Michelle Obama, the Media Circus, and America’s Racial Obsession
Part II. Historical Precedents, or How Election 2008 Began before the Civil War
4. The 2008 Election, Black Women’s Politics, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
5. The Forgotten Legacy of Shirley Chisholm: Race versus Gender in the 2008 Democratic Primaries
6. Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy in Historical and Global Context
7. Defining a Maverick: Putting Palin in the Context of Western Women’s Political History
8. Populist Currents in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Part III. Legacies: Democracy Undermined? Feminism Redefined?
9. Obama 2.0: Farewell to the Federal Campaign Finance System and the Secret Ballot?
10. Political Feminism and the Problem of Sarah Palin

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