False choices
Subtitle: the faux feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
By: edited by Liza Featherstone ; with contributions from Medea Benjamin [and fourteen others]
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781784784614
Subjects: Feminism; Women's rights
Description: "Hillary Clinton presents her campaign for the presidency and her long career in public life as a triumph of feminism. But an all-star lineup of American feminists here says, "It's not that simple." In a history of proposals and policies on welfare, Wall Street, crime and policing, immigration, international health, and war, Clinton has advanced ideas and laws that have actually hurt women--and restricted the powerful idea of feminism itself. From leading feminist figures like Laura Flanders, Maureen Tkacik and Medea Benjamin to a new generation of young women writers and thinkers, this book restores to feminism its revolutionary meaning and outlines how truly robust feminist policies could transform the United States and its relation to the world"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hillary at home.; title: Hillary Clinton, economic populist: Are you fucking kidding me?  -- Kathleen Geier; title: Ending poverty as we know it  -- Frances Fox Piven and Fred Block; title: Free the children!  -- Amber A'Lee Frost; title: Waging war on teachers  -- Megan Erickson; title: Neoliberal fictions: Harper Lee, Hillary Clinton and my dad  -- Catherine Liu; title: The great ambivalence  -- Tressie McMillan Cottom; title: The Clintons' war on drugs: Why black lives didn't matter  -- Donna Murch; title: Marry the state, jail the people: Hillary Clinton and the rise of carceral feminism  -- Yasmin Nair; title: Abortion and the politics of failure  -- Maureen Tkacik; title: Hillary abroad.; title: Hillary screws sex workers  -- Margaret Corvid; title: Hillary does Honduras  -- Belén Fernández; title: Pink-slipping Hillary  -- Medea Benjamin; title: Beyond Hillary: Toward anti-racist, anti-imperialist feminism -- Zillah Eisenstein.