False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

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False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Writer's Voice Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Z0qCamedvNg

Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it’s thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a kind of trickle-down feminism.

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the mantle of feminist elect has descended on Hillary Clinton, as a thousand viral memes applaud her, and most mainstream feminist leaders, thinkers, and organizations endorse her. In this atmosphere, dissent seems tantamount to political betrayal.

In False Choices, an all-star lineup of feminists contests this simplistic reading of the candidate. A detailed look at Hillary Clinton’s track record on welfare, Wall Street, criminal justice, education, and war reveals that she has advanced laws and policies that have done real harm to the lives of women and children across the country and the globe. This well-researched collection of essays restores to feminism its revolutionary meaning, and outlines how it could transform the United States and its relation to the world.

Includes essays from prominent feminist writers Liza Featherstone, Laura Flanders, Moe Tkacik, Medea Benjamin, Frances Fox Piven and Fred Block, Donna Murch, Kathleen Geier, Yasmin Nair, Megan Erickson, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Catherine Liu, Amber A’Lee Frost, Margaret Corvid, Belén Fernández, Zillah Eisenstein, and others.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2121-false-choices

[redixdoragon]

1. Excellent find. Rec'd -nt

[pnwmom]

3. To put this into context, these "feminists" argue that Gloria Steinem isn't a feminist, either,

and that no one is a feminist unless they are a socialist, too.

Well, aren't they special.



http://www.revelist.com/politics/liza-featherstone-hillary-clinton-faux/1000

Liza Featherstone: "He is not a woman, but I think [Bernie Sanders] is by far the best candidate for women because he comes closer than any candidate for the presidency in many years to being a real socialist,"

[redixdoragon]

4. Feminism for the few

And sexism for the rest of you.

Kind of like coporations. They get socilast support when things are dire. The rest of us just enjoy the pains of capitalism run amok.

[cprise]

5. B-But feminism is supposed to be the thing

that sets the Clintons apart from the Bushes!

And you're saying Hillary's feminism is false?! She sat on the Walmart board and beamed femininity at them -- isn't that good enough?

[Locrian]

6. no silly...

She's making wars and corporatism more feminine, see? If you can't beat em, change the definition.