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Article: THE NEW SUPERWOMAN OF AMERICAN POLITICS Whether or not Sarah Palin wins, politics will never be the same again for US women.
- Article from:
- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- September 7, 2008
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She wasn't going to "stay home and bake cookies", she was going
to reform the healthcare system: if we elected her husband, we were
thus going to get "two for the price of one". With those words,
Hillary Clinton launched herself into America's consciousness, and
began a political career that very nearly brought her the Democratic
presidential nomination this year. Though she lost that contest, she
succeeded in making herself into something more than an ordinary
woman in politics. She became an archetype, the Female American
Politician.
More than that: she became the archetype of the Powerful American
Woman. She herself once explained the hostility she inspires as the
misdirected fury of ...
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