Know Your Enemy #12: She’s Got a Plan, with Rebecca Traister
Know Your Enemy #12: She’s Got a Plan, with Rebecca Traister
How does patriarchy condition women’s political careers? How does the right mobilize anti-feminism to win?
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe, rate, and review to the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.
Matt and Sam talk to Rebecca Traister of New York Magazine about sexism and electoral politics. How has patriarchy conditioned the political careers of politicians like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren? How does the right mobilize anti-feminism to win? And how do conservative women like Sarah Palin use traditional womanhood and femininity to their advantage? Listen to find out!
Traister is the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.
Further Reading:
- Rebecca Traister, “Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy,” The Cut, August 6, 2019
- Rebecca Traister, “Leader of the Persistence,” New York Magazine, July 23, 2019
- Elaine Blaire, “The Power of Enraged Women,” New York Times, September 27, 2018
- Liesl Schillinger “Book Review: Big Girls Don’t Cry,” New York Times, September 16, 2010
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