Join WOMEN’S WAY for the 2012 Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize honoring Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women by Rebecca Traister. Please join us for this important public dialogue about women and elected office, hosted by Tamala Edwards, morning anchor for 6abc news.
About the Author: Rebecca Traister is senior writer for Salon, where she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment since 2003, and where she covered the 2008 presidential campaign from a feminist perspective. She has also written for Elle, the Nation, the New York Observer, Vogue and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, but is a native of Glenside, PA.
About the Book: Though the 2008 election didn’t give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women Traister’s electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative in ways that no one anticipated.
Throughout the book, Traister weaves in her own experience as a thirtysomething feminist sorting through all the events and media coverage—vacillating between Clinton and Obama and forced to face tough questions about her own feminism, the women’s movement, race and the different generational perspectives of women working toward political parity some ninety years after their sex was first enfranchised. The 2008 election was a time of enormous change, and there is no better guide through that explosive, infuriating, heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious year. Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women offers an enduring portrait of dramatic cultural and political shifts brought about by this most historic of American contests.
About the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize:
This prize honors the legacy of Ernesta Drinker Ballard, a WOMEN’S WAY founder, first president of its Board of Directors, and extraordinary champion for women and girls. The Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize is awarded annually to an author who has made a significant contribution to furthering the dialogue about issues impacting women and girls. This important event is part of our Public Education Initiatives Program, helping us truly be A Powerful Voice for Women.
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