Love Her, Love Her Not

The Hillary Paradox

Joanne Bamberger

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631528071
• Subtopic: Essays in Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Hillary Clinton’s name is on everyone’s lips as we head into the 2016 presidential election. But as we know from the 2008 presidential campaign, and its outcome, Clinton evokes extreme and varied emotions among voters in a way no other candidate in recent memory has. But why? Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox delves into the nuances of our complicated feelings about one of the most powerful women ever in American politics. In this timely collection, editor Joanne Bamberger gathers a unique and diverse group of writers of all ages, walks of life, and political affiliations, while also providing the narrative framework through which to view the history that’s led us to this moment in time—the moment when voters must decide whether they can forgive Hillary Clinton for not being the perfect candidate or the perfect woman and finally elect our first woman president. Timely and fresh, Love Her, Love Her Not will provoke new conversations and push political and cultural dialogue in the US to a new level.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Worshipping the Semiotic Brilliance of Hillary’s Pantsuits
• I Don’t Need Hillary Clinton to Be Perfect
• On Being Hillary’s Campaign BFF
• How Can Hillary Be Herself When She’s a Stand-In?
• A Crone of My Own: Hillary Clinton and the Gen X Feminist Experience
• Hillary Clinton Changed My Life
• Without Hillary Clinton, What Would Conservatives Have to Write About?
• Can Hillary Clinton Count on the Gen Y Vote?
• Hillary for President . . . of the Universe
• A Yankee in a Southern Belle’s Court
• Hillary Clinton: Everymother
• No More Glass Slippers
• Six Degrees of Hillary Clinton: My Chappaqua Neighbor
• Bill Clinton as Metaphor for America and Why Hillary Is Uniquely Qualified for President
• I Walk the Line: Hillary Clinton vs. Elizabeth Warren
• Embracing the Parents’ Agenda for the Win?
• Inspecting Hillary’s Privilege Knapsack
• Can the “She” Clinton be Commander in Chief?
• Preaching the Social Gospel: Hillary’s Mighty Fortress
• The Responsibility of Privilege
• Hillary’s Age as Shorthand Sexism
• Won’t Let Down the Team, This Time
• A 12-Step Program of Her-storic Proportions
• FLOTUS, SCOTUS, POTUS, SCHMOTUS
• Hillary the Hawk?
• Is “Too Small to Fail” Hillary’s Failsafe Way to the White House?
• What I’ve Learned from Hillary the Wellesley Girl
• The Long Road to Yes
• Acknowledgments
• Author Biographies
• About the Author/Editor