False Choices ─ The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Clinton presents her campaign for the presidency and her long career in public life as a triumph of feminism. But an all-star lineup of American feminists here says, “It’s not that simple.” In a history of proposals and policies on welfare, Wall Street, crime and policing, immigration, international health, and war, Clinton has advanced ideas and laws that have actually hurt women—and restricted the powerful idea of feminism itself. From leading feminist figures like Roxane Gay and Barbara Ehrenreich to a new generation of young women writers and thinkers, this book restores to feminism its revolutionary meaning and outlines how truly robust feminist policies could transform the United States and its relation to the world.

Liza Featherstone writes about feminism, labor, education, and social justice. She is the author ofSelling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books), the co-author ofStudents Against Sweatshops (Verso), and the author of the forthcoming Behind the Mirror (OR Books), on focus groups. She is a columnist for The Nation and foramNY, and a contributing editor at JSTOR Daily. Her work has been published byThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, The American Prospect, Columbia Journalism Review, Glamour, CNN.com, The Daily Beast, Salon, Teen Vogue, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Brooklyn Rail , Book Forum, The Women’s Review of Books and many other publications. Featherstone was the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Brooklyn College from 2013–2015, and currently teaches at New York University’s Arthur Carter Journalism Institute and Columbia’s School for International and Public Affairs. She has received journalism fellowships from Columbia Journalism School, the Nation Institute, and the Hoover Institution