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The 2016 election year may be remembered as a year to forget, but for American women in politics and feminists alike it was unforgettably distressing--a flash point illuminating both the true state of play for women in public life and feminist politics in the early twenty-first century. Wolf Whistle Politics is a book that tries to account for, contextualize, and even make some sense out of this trying political chapter in American history. [This book] shines a bright light on the complex relationship between women and politics today, reflecting on what we lost, what we won, and what we can do to move forward.--Page 4 of cover.;Wolf whistle politics : taking back the conversation to advance womens rights / Wendy Davis -- pt. 1. Presidential politics. -- The woman card / Jill Lepore -- The womans party / Namara Smith -- Which women support Hillary (and which women cant afford to) / Sarah Leonard -- Black feminists dont owe Hillary Clinton their support / Kirsten West Savali -- Feminism at the polls / Liza Featherstone -- Dont call Clinton a weak candidate : it took decades of scheming to beat her / Rebecca Solnit -- pt. 2. Sexism and misogyny. -- Donald and Billy on the bus / Lindy West -- At least six women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct- how many more will come forward? / Joan Walsh -- Why we trust Donald Trumps accusers but didnt believe Bill Clintons / Caitlin Flanagan -- Hillary Clinton has one more badly behaved man left to vanquish / Katha Pollitt -- pt. 3. Women and governance. -- What Wendy Davis stood for / Amy Davidson -- How can we get more women in elected office? Look to New Hampshire / Rebecca Hellmich -- Women actually do govern differently / Claire Miller -- The Senate bathroom angle / Gail Collins -- pt. 4. Moving forward. -- The men feminists left behind / Jill Filipovic -- An open letter to white liberal feminists / LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant -- Identity issues dont distract from economic issues- they are economic issues / Rebecca Traister -- Political correctness : how the Right invented a phantom enemy / Moira Weigel -- pt. 5. What happens next? -- Feminism lost. Now what? / Susan Chira -- You never know what a revolution is going to look like / Naomi Wolf -- Thirteen women who should run in 2020 / Amy Davidson -- How a fractious womens movement came to lead the Left / Amanda Hess -- Sexist political criticism finds a new target : Kellyanne Conway / Susan Chira.

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Dr. Naomi Wolf is the author of eight bestselling nonfiction books, including The Beauty Myth and Vagina: A New Biography. She recently earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford. A former Gore advisor, Wolf is CEO of DailyClout, a media company that makes tech tools and content for democracy, and the author of the forthcoming Outrages.

When I published a book called Vagina four years ago, arguing that targeting the genitals and sexuality of women was a political ploy, and that women needed to defend their sexualityand even their genitalsovertly in order to be a potent political force, the topic was seen to be outr, and I was chastised for introducing womens reproductive organs into politics. The vagina has since made many rather shocking appearances in the political fray. Donald Trump and Billy Bush talked about grabbing womens vaginas without permission. The New York Times ran the word pussy on the front page for the first time in its history. And when a woman with a national platformFox Newss Megyn Kellycalled Donald Trump out on broadcast television, like a metronome, Trump invoked for viewers the image of Ms. Kellys bleeding vagina. This attack was meant to silence Kelly, as attacks on womens vaginasindeed the mere invocation of that shameful, silencing termalways have been.

But on the Mall in Washington the day after Donald Trumps inauguration, you couldnt shut nearly a half million women up about their genitals, their reproductive organs, and the politics of defending and attacking them. A groundswell of furious, mainstream-as-can-be women carried signs that were newly combative and explicit: This Pussy Grabs Back was one, and If I wanted the government in my uterus, Id fuck a congressman was another. The icon of a uterus with fallopian tubes was on many signs; on one, the organ itself was giving Trump the finger. You really like it? No, I really dont was yet another.

In DC, New York, Seattle, London, New Delhi, and Christchurch, womenand the men who support themflowed into a vast, iconic river of pink pussyhats1.7 million of these were knitted by the Pussyhat Project and worn at protests around the country and the world. Women of every background and age showed up wearing an item symbolizing a very personal part of their bodies, screaming mad in defense of their genitals, their wombs, their vital organs. Sick of sexual abuse. Sick of loss of reproductive control. Sick of being degraded. They even brought their kids to the marches; todays rage was going to infect the next generation.

This huge response was a result, I believe, of womens awareness of a newly brutal form of political engagement, an overtly misogynist approach, aptly described by former Texas state senator Wendy Davis (of filibuster fame) in a speech she gave at Princeton in 2015 as Wolf Whistle Politics.

What accounts for such explicit, in-your-face sexism at this moment in time? I would hazard that its the prospect of women in power at last. The presidential race clearly inflamed this new brutality. But it was just tinder that has been ready for some time to set a bonfire ablaze. The year 2016 was the year in which gender issues exploded all over the American political map. Everywhere you looked there was evidence of a gender crisis: gendered hope and gendered hostility; gendered rage, violence, and fear; pussy grabbing and invocations of Seneca Falls.

Even in his manic, tantrum-y chaos, Candidate Trump inhabited the current moment in America in which men and women really live: our world of social media impulsivity, nonstop porn, shock jocks, celebrity worship, and raw emotional battle. He particularly called out to the serious divides between haves and have-nots, both male and female. It all erupted continually during the last presidential campaign in America, and the shards poked awkwardlyand at times painfullythrough what had been the last fragile veneers of polite traditional political discourse.

The essays collected in this book assemble into a legible mosaic the many fragments of that eruption. Yes, of course, the presidential race was where most of the action was, but this volume pulls the lens back, broadening the discussion to include a wide range of women and issues in the openly bigoted and sexist public sphere today.

In her Princeton speech, Wendy Davis likened wolf whistle politics to the coded signaling of dog whistle politics, which scholar Ian Haney Lopez used to characterize racist political pandering, as exemplified by Richard Nixons infamous Southern strategy. But where dog whistling is covert and happens at a pitch that cant be heard by many, wolf whistling is right there in your face. Wolf whistling is an undisguised lasciviousness that condones and informs, Davis asserts, the sexualized nature in which women candidates and womens issues are often framed. Women candidates, as Davis notes, are viciously and openly sexualized with impunity. She talks about how she was targeted with sexualized imagery to demean her during her senatorial bid. As she points out, the ploy works, so why stop?

At this moment in history, Daviss term can easily be expanded to include the play of overt and violent misogyny throughout public life, including women of all kinds: voters, marchers, spokeswomen, workers, medical patients, moms, and other everyday female leaders, political and not. Though the Trump/Clinton matchup in 2016 was the catalyst, like Betty Friedans problem that has no name in the 1960s, and Susan Faludis backlash in the 1990s, the concept of wolf whistle politics allows us to discern the contours of a contemporary constellation we may not have perceived before. If we trace the thread of vicious, angry, and sexualized sexismas opposed to the more polite, condescending sexism of the first decade or so of the twenty-first centurywe can use the concept of wolf whistle politics to smoke out and name a whole gamut of tactics that have somehow, appallingly, made their way back to Americas center stage.

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