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“mad as hell”: Eric Snider, “Wynette Gets ‘Justified,’” St. Petersburg Times, March 14, 1992.
“I can assure you, in spite of your education”: “Singer Tammy Wynette Furious at Hillary Clinton’s Statement,” Associated Press, January 29, 1992.
“wild-eyed feminist who equated marriage with slavery”: Patricia McLaughlin, “Women of the House over the Years, First Ladies Have Evolved into Capital Women,” Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1992.
“Lips pulled back over her slightly jutting teeth”: Gail Sheehy, “What Hillary Wants,” Vanity Fair, May 1992, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1992/05/hillary-clinton-first-lady-presidency.
“Nothing too Hillary”: Maureen Dowd, “Candidate’s Wife; Hillary Clinton as Aspiring First Lady: Role Model, or a ‘Hall Monitor’ Type?” New York Times, May 18, 1992.
“I want maneuverability”: Dowd, “Candidate’s Wife; Hillary Clinton as Aspiring First Lady.”
poll had found that: Sheehy, “What Hillary Wants.”
“Would she work on the outside or the inside”: Safire, “The Hillary Problem.”
“wants a First Lady to be an adjunct”: Ted Koppel, “Making Hillary Clinton an Issue,” Nightline transcript, PBS, March 26, 1992, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/03261992.html.
“uncharacteristic”: Wolf Blitzer, “Final Clinton Cabinet Appointments Followed by Singing,” CNN, December 24, 1992.
“rich, rich, rich chocolate cake”: Marian Burros, “Bill Clinton and Food: Jack Sprat He’s Not,” New York Times, December 23, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/23/garden/bill-clinton-and-food-jack-sprat-he-s-not.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0.
“She was, essentially, fired”: Gil Troy, The Age of Clinton: America in the 90s (New York: Macmillan, 2015).
“welcoming men to their role as the second sex”: Christopher Caldwell, “The Feminization of America,” The Weekly Standard, December 22, 1996, http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-feminization-of-america/article/9604.
“deeply American fear of the unaccountable power behind the throne”: Gil Troy, interview with the author during the 2012 presidential campaign.
“hall monitor” whose “offputting” “drive and earnestness”: Dowd, “Candidate’s Wife; Hillary Clinton as Aspiring First Lady.”
“nattering cheerily”: Alex Beam, “Warm Fuzzies from the First Lady,” Boston Globe, January 3, 1996.
“sublimated her into a nightmarish amalgam”: Beam, “Warm Fuzzies from the First Lady.”
“When it comes to women”: Dowd, “Candidate’s Wife; Hillary Clinton as Aspiring First Lady.”
“unmasked as a counterfeit feminist”: Maureen Dowd, “Cowboy Feminism,” New York Times, April 11, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/opinion/liberties-cowboy-feminism.html.
Her marriage was a farce: Sheehy, “What Hillary Wants.”
“a shrew whose capacity for denial”: Tapper, “The Clinton Marriage.”
Bill Clinton allegedly rejected a drafted speech: Dowd, “Monica Gets Her Man.”
It turned out that liberal, successful professional women: Kate Kelly, “Meet the Smart New York Women Who Can’t Stand Hillary Clinton,” New York Observer, January 17, 2000, http://observer.com/2000/01/meet-the-smart-new-york-women-who-cant-stand-hillary-clinton/.
“During my time in Washington, I heard Hillary Clinton called many things”: Doug Thompson, “Yes, Hillary Clinton Is a Bitch,” Capitol Hill Blue, November 16, 2007, http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/3815.
“a very female style of comedy”: Yael Kohen, interview with the author, March 3, 2017.
“broad and physical role”: Liza Mundy, “Why Janet Reno Fascinates, Confounds and Even Terrifies America?” Washington Post, January 25, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/stories/reno012598.htm.
“I remember thinking that was kind of bullshit”: Tina Fey, Bossypants (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011), 135.
In the “Janet Reno’s Dance Party” sketches: Will Ferrell, “Janet Reno Sketches,” Saturday Night Live, NBC, https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/will-ferrell-15141/impersonation/janet-reno-89921.
“led with her values”: Jamie Gorelick, interview with the author, October 2015.
She was called the most qualified of the president’s cabinet officials: Janet Reno, “Swearing-In Ceremony of Janet Reno as United States Attorney General,” YouTube video, March 12, 1993, 8:36, posted by clintonlibrary42, April 6, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H27Ni6bu1s.
“the most urgent issue I faced”: Janet Reno, “Opening Statement before the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee,” Frontline, PBS, August 1, 1995, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/renoopeningst.html.
“Butcher Reno!”: Joe Rosenbloom III, “Waco: More than Simple Blunders?” Wall Street Journal, October 17, 1995, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/blunders.html.
“like a pileated woodpecker”: Mundy, “Why Janet Reno Fascinates, Confounds and Even Terrifies America?”
“Selections from the Janet Reno Collection”: Michael Crawford, “Selections from the Janet Reno Collection,” Condé Nast, https://condenaststore.com/featured/selections-from-the-janet-reno-collection-michael-crawford.html.
“a self-conscious hunch to her shoulders”: Lincoln Caplan, “Janet Reno’s Choice,” New York Times, May 15, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/magazine/janet-reno-s-choice.html.
Rather than talk forcefully: Caplan, “Janet Reno’s Choice.”
“slow Florida twang”: Caplan, “Janet Reno’s Choice.”
“more suited to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services”: Caplan, “Janet Reno’s Choice.”
“not threatened by a successful woman”: Nancy Gibbs, “Truth, Justice and the Reno Way,” Time, July 12, 1993, http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,978865–7,00.html.
“because Janet Reno is her father”: Ed Pilkington, “The Joke That Should Have Sunk McCain,” The Guardian, September 1, 2008, http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/02/women.johnmccain.
He allegedly apologized: Pilkington, “The Joke That Should Have Sunk McCain.”
Reno’s gayness was so often assumed that she addressed it publicly: Nick Paumgarten, “Aunt Janny,” New Yorker, October 1, 2007, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/10/01/aunt-janny.
if Reno was a “normal woman”: Mundy, “Why Janet Reno Fascinates, Confounds and Even Terrifies America?”
Some reports from their trip: Elaine Sciolino, “Madeleine Albright’s Audition,” New York Times, September 22, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/magazine/madeleine-albright-s-audition.html?pagewanted=all.
“prompting criticism there that she does not take her job seriously enough”: Sciolino, “Madeleine Albright’s Audition.”
“snarled” to make her point: Carol Rosenberg, “‘Everybody Loves’ Tough Albright She’s Embraced For Stand After Cuba Downed Planes,” Miami Herald, March 22, 1996.
“She is like a bulldog”: Michael Dobbs, “With Albright, Clinton Accepts New U.S. Role,” Washington Post, December 8, 1996, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/stories/albright120896.htm.
“There are very few other members of Clinton’s Cabinet”: Michael Dobbs and John M. Goshko, “Albright’s Personal Odyssey Shaped Foreign Policy Beliefs,” Washington Post, December 6, 1996.
“taken out the cojones”: Stanley Meisler, “Cuban Pilots Gloated over Shoot-Down,” Chicago Sun-Times, February 28, 1996.
A former representative from Venezuela accused her: Hilary Bowker and Richard Roth, “U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Is an Outspoken Woman,” CNN, December 5, 1996.
“too strident”: “Albright: Not One to Pull Punches,” CNN, December 6, 1997, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/9612/06/2albright.roth/index.shtml.
called the treatment of Albright: Warren Bass, “Cold War,” New Republic, December 13, 1999, https://newrepublic.com/article/79878/cold-war-holbrooke-albright.
foreign colleagues working late: Peter J. Boyer, “General Clark’s Battles,” New Yorker, November 17, 2003, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/17/general-clarks-battles.
was also the headline: Walter Isaacson, “Madeleine’s War,” Time, May 9, 1999.
She also deployed animal brooches: Lauren Collins, “Big Pin,” New Yorker, October 5, 2009, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/05/big-pin.
CHAPTER 7: FEMALE ANGER
“I didn’t expect such negativity”: Paula Cole, interview with the author, 2015.
“women play electric guitars”: David Browne, “Tragic Kingdom,” Entertainment Weekly, August 2, 1996, http://ew.com/article/1996/08/02/tragic-kingdom/.
“the princess of post-adolescent feminist angst”: Neal Karlen, “On Top of Pop but Not with One Voice,” New York Times, June 29, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/29/arts/on-top-of-pop-but-not-with-one-voice.html.
“little-girl type” or “riot grrrl variety”: Karlen, “On Top of Pop but Not with One Voice.”
“Flaunting her bare midriff”: Karlen, “On Top of Pop but Not with One Voice.”
the “Nancy Reagan of Lilith Fair”: Chris Wilman, “A Fair to Remember,” Entertainment Weekly, June 19, 1998, http://www.gdrmusic.com/atnatalie/library/nam/980619.htm.
“In the aftermath of Alanis”: “Fiona Apple, ‘Tidal’” in “100 Best Albums of the ’90s,” Rolling Stone, April 27, 2011, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-nineties-20110427/fiona-apple-tidal-20110516.
“vocal flutter-kicks”: Karen Schoemer, Yahlin Chang, and Kate Cambor, “Quiet Grrls,” Newsweek, June 30, 1997.
“twirling banshee . . . roaming the stage wildly”: “The People Column,” Miami Herald, March 24, 1998.
“grand drama in private dilemmas”: Jon Pareles, “Hold the Anger, Please,” New York Times, December 27, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/27/arts/hold-the-anger-please.html.
“unleashed the hellish fury”: Mike Boehm, “Pop Music Review; Paula Cole: Impressive Range, Emotions Ripe for a Rock Diva,” Los Angeles Times, October 28, 1997.
“little pile of rags”: Wilman, “A Fair to Remember.”
grossing $16.5 million: Timothy Finn, “For McLachlan, All’s Fair Second Time Around,” Newark Star-Ledger, July 7, 1998.
“Call us insensitive”: Schoemer, Chang, and Cambor, “Quiet Grrls.”
Activists like Hanna: The Punk Singer, directed by Sini Anderson (Opening Band Films, 2013).
“Not only do we live in a totally fucked-up patriarchal society”: Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution, Kindle edition (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), loc. 3144.
was inspired to join the movement: “Revolution, Girl Style,” Newsweek, November 22, 1992, http://www.newsweek.com/revolution-girl-style-196998.
“It felt like finally jumping into a lake”: Sara Marcus, interview with the author, April 2016.
“feminist fury”: Marcus, Girls to the Front, loc. 3144.
“militant slant”: Nina Malkin, “It’s A Grrrl Thing,” Seventeen, May 1993.
“Alternative culture in the 90s”: Sarah Seltzer, “‘Bitch’ Founder Andi Zeisler on a Battle That Remains Only Half-Won,” Flavorwire, April 19, 2016, http://flavorwire.com/568635/bitch-founder-andi-zeisler-on-a-battle-that-remains-only-half-won.
“a major breakthrough in the expression”: Nataki H. Goodall, “Depend on Myself: T.L.C. and the Evolution of Black Female Rap,” Journal of Negro History 79, no. 1 (Winter 1994).
gun violence and HIV/AIDS: Arthur L. Kellermann, Dawna Fuqua-Whitley, and Constance S. Parramore, Reducing Gun Violence: Community Problem Solving in Atlanta (Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, June 2006).
their hometown, Atlanta: “The First Safest/Most Dangerous City Listing,” Morgan Quitno Press, 1995, accessed November 3, 2017, http://www.morganquitno.com/1st_safest.htm.
“I like it when you”: Dallas Austin and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, “Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg,” AZLyrics, accessed November 3, 2017, http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tlc/aint2proud2beg.html.
“There aren’t enough positive ones out there”: Lenny Stoute, “Fun-Feminist TLC Trio Rappin’ on Boyz Door,” Toronto Star, July 30, 1992.
The only female pop act: Kenneth Partridge, “TLC’s CrazySexyCool at 20: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review,” Billboard, November 15, 2014, http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/album-review/6319789/tlcs-crazysexycool-at-20-classic-track-by-track-album-review.
a trick to hook listeners: “People,” Dallas Morning News, December 31, 1994.
“eliminate the condoms and clean up the lyrics”: Dennis Hunt, “TLC: Condom Fashions Are a Political Statement,” Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1992, http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-26/entertainment/ca-1225_1_fashion-statement.
“cartoonish-looking trio”: Sonia Murray, “‘CrazySexyCool’ TLC toys with a little bit of everything,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 14, 1994.
“standing up to macho men”: William Plummer, “In the Heat of the Night,” People, June 27, 1994, http://people.com/archive/in-the-heat-of-the-night-vol-41-no-24/.
“the girls”: Bill Diggins, email with the author, June 2015.
“Seems that Left-Eye”: Curtis Peck, “Morning Briefing,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 11, 1994, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/142399388/.
“combustive”: Plummer, “In the Heat of the Night.”
“Strong child-woman”: Joan Morgan, “The Fire This Time,” Vibe, November 1994.
“It’s so backward”: Morgan, “The Fire This Time.”
“No doubt Rison is hoping”: “Some Like It Hot; Pop Group TLC Love to Shock Their Fans,” Daily Record, May 6, 1995.
“TLC burns up the charts”: Behind the Music, season 2, episode 26, “TLC,” directed by Nicholas Caprio, aired April 18, 1999, on VH1.
“Andre has some hellraiser in him”: Len Pasquarelli, “Trouble a Rison Mainstay Off-Field Excesses Shadow Otherwise Brilliant Career,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 10, 1994.
“After almost three days of shopping”: Morgan, “The Fire This Time.”
“the number one bad girls of pop”: Behind the Music, “TLC.”
the first girl group to sell: Partridge, “TLC’s CrazySexyCool at 20.”
only group member: Steve Huey, review of Ooooooohhh . . . On the TLC Tip, AllMusic, accessed November 3, 2017, http://www.all-music.com/album/ooooooohhhon-the-tlc-tip-mw0000678115.
“a monster”: Diana E. Lundin, “Clubbing Brenda W: Anti-Fans Out to Get Villainess of ‘90210,’” Los Angeles Daily News, February 8, 1993.
“snobbery, hostility and general brattiness”: Mark Ehrman, “Cliques: The Importance of Hating Brenda,” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1993.
She was reportedly financially unstable: Georgea Kovanis, “On- and Off-Screen, ‘90210’ Actress Shannen Doherty Is Taking Her Lumps,” Tulsa World, March 7, 1993.
“One bad apple”: Kovanis, “On- and Off-Screen, ‘90210’ Actress Shannen Doherty Is Taking Her Lumps.”
Brenda hate became a cottage industry: Kovanis, “On- and Off-Screen, ‘90210’ Actress Shannen Doherty Is Taking Her Lumps.”
“wonderfully nasty tattle sheet”: J. D. Considine, “Hating Brenda of ‘90210’ Begets a Small Industry,” Baltimore Sun, August 8, 1993, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-08-17/features/1993229160_1_brenda-morataya-darby.
“I’m not saying I don’t have my moments”: Lundin, “Clubbing Brenda W.”
“Why is it when a man”: “Salem Bitch Trial,” Saturday Night Live Transcripts, accessed November 3, 2017, http://snltran scripts.jt.org/93/93bbitch.phtml.
what a bad influence she was: J. D. Reed, “A Life on the Edge,” People, June 14, 1993, http://people.com/archive/cover-story-a-life-on-the-edge-vol-39-no-23/.
reportedly started a fistfight: Corey Sinclair, “Tori Spelling Admits to Role in Axing of Shannen Doherty from Beverly Hills 90210,” News Corp Australia Network, October 6, 2015.
“Shock your public”: Lisa Schwarzbaum, “Shannen Doherty: Image RX,” Entertainment Weekly, April 23, 1993, http://ew.com/article/1993/04/23/shannen-doherty-image-rx/.
CHAPTER 8: MANLY
A 2015 study of gender and anger: Arizona State University, “Study Shows Angry Men Gain Influence and Angry Women Lose Influence,” news release, October 27, 2015, https://asunow.asu.edu/20151027-study-shows-angry-men-gain-influence-and-angry-women-lose-influence.
“tough, outspoken women”: Kenneth R. Clark, “In Their Prime: On TV This Fall, It’s the Year of the 90s Woman,” Chicago Tribune, November 29, 1992.
“unapologetically vacillates between being fat”: O’Connor, “By Any Name, Roseanne Is Roseanne Is Roseanne.”
“Quasimodo on a bad night”: Ryan Murphy, “Fashion’s Meanest Man: The Watcher of the Worst Dressed Talks of Hollywood Horror, Nancy Reagan and Guilty Pleasures,” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1991.
“trying to overfeed”: Chrissy Iley, “Fierce Creature,” The Guardian, October 7, 2008, http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/08/celebrity.comedy.
“make many prominent feminists uneasy”: O’Connor, “By Any Name, Roseanne Is Roseanne Is Roseanne.”
“Why do you think that everyone thinks”: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, directed by Brett Morgen (HBO Documentary Films, 2015).
“gyrating in G-string”: Daphne Merkin, “Endless Love,” in The Fame Lunches (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014).
“a curdled version of the all-American girl”: Laura Barton, “Love Me Do,” The Guardian, December 11, 2006, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/11/biography.popandrock.
“I remember the jokes backstage”: Amy Finnerty, interview with the author, January 14, 2016.
“No wonder Courtney Love behaved”: Angela Buttolph, “Am I Too Old to Wear a Baby Doll?” Evening Standard, October 19, 2001.
“young, gothy Bette Midler”: Barbara Ellen, “Interview: Courtney Love: Love and Death and the Hole Damn Thing,” New York Observer, November 15, 1998.
“taking up public space reserved”: Kylie Murphy, “‘I’m Sorry—I’m Not Really Sorry’: Courtney Love and Notions of Authenticity (Focus on Younger Women),” Hecate 27, no.1 (May 1, 2001).
