Losing the 2016 US election was `devastating´, but Clinton is keeping up the fight. Mother and daughter talk about authoritarianism, inspiring women and why thrillers are the perfect escapeIf there is a prevailing message in Hillary and Chelsea Clinton´s The Book of Gutsy Women - albeit perhaps not precisely the one they meant - it is that making change for women and girls is painful, tough, and requires almost inhuman reserves of personal grit. The volume is a collection of mini-biographies of `gutsy` women, and its intended mood, I surmise, is upbeat and inspirational. The subjects range from the learned 17th-century Mexican nun Suor Juana de la Cruz to the bracingly named Cherokee politician Barbara Mankiller. But behind the celebratory gloss the real `take-home`, to use the requisite Ted Talk phrase, is this: toughen up. The fight is on.`My view,` Hillary says, `is that we are going to continue to progress - there is too much energy behind that, and women are not going to easily surrender to the pressures they are now facing. But we have to be aware that it doesn´t happen by accident. It happens because women and men continue to point out the unfairness and oppression and absurdity of trying to put women out of the public arena.` Continue reading...
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