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Article: Taking Feminism Abroad
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 12, 1995
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The first lady took a surprising amount of flak -- at least, it
read like flak -- for focusing her South Asian travels on such
traditional first-lady causes as the welfare of children and women.
Reporters drew contrasts between this and her previous two years of
hard-core policy work, their prose turning sugary as the first lady
toured women's development banks and urged schooling for girls and
women, photo-opping her way into places the cameras rarely go.
Mrs. Clinton was offered this challenge in concrete form in
Pakistan when a reporter asked her why she had ignored a chance to
complain about human rights abuses. "I think by talking about girls
and women, you're talking about human ...