Looking to the future, feminism has to focus

By Linda Hirshman | Sunday, June 8, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…At 40-something, organized feminism is having trouble reproducing. Nothing says that more clearly than Clinton’s struggle in the primaries. Whatever its achievements, a movement with a potential constituency of more than half of all eligible American voters has never, with the possible but unclear exception of 1996, been able to deliver the deciding goods in any presidential election. And what this precise electoral moment tells us is that in fact it was never in a position to function as an effective electoral force….”…BS

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