Preferred Citation: Eisenstein, Zillah R. The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft887008bb/


 
Notes

Three— The "New Racism" and Its Multiple Faces— The Civil Rights Act of 1990–91, the Clarence Thomas Hearings, the Gulf War, and "Political Correctness"

1. Jefferson Morley, "Bush and the Blacks: An Unknown Story," New York Review of Books 34, nos. 1-2 (16 Jan. 1992): 19-26.

2. Steven Holmes, "When the Subject Is Civil Rights, There Are Two George Bushes," New York Times, 9 June 1991, p. E1.

3. USA Weekend Survey Poll, June 1991, cited in Jessica Lee, "Why Is Bush Rated the Worst?" USA Weekend, Special Report, 28-30 June 1991, p. 7.

4. Anthony DePalma, "Colleges Express Great Confusion on Minority Aid," New York Times, 20 Dec. 1990, p. A1.

5. Karen DeWitt, "U.S. Lets Stand Curb on College Aid Keyed to Race," New York Times, 19 Dec. 1990, p. A1.

6. Karen DeWitt, "Ban on Race-Exclusive Scholarships Expected Today," New York Times, 4 Dec. 1991, p. B16.

7. Anthony DePalma, "Theory and Practice at Odds in Ruling on Minority Scholarships," New York Times, 7 Dec. 1991, p. A10.

8. As quoted by Karen DeWitt, "Education Chief Backs Minority Scholarships," New York Times, 19 Mar. 1993, p. A15.

9. Anthony Lewis, "Defining the Issue," New York Times, 5 Aug. 1991, p. A13.

10. Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr, as quoted in Linda Greenhouse, "Bush Reverses U.S. Stance Against Black College Aid," New York Times, 22 Oct. 1991, p. B6. The case was United States v. Fordice, 112 S. Ct. 2727 (1991).

11. Steven Holmes, "Bush to Order End of Rules Allowing Race-Based Hiring," New York Times, 21 Nov. 1991, p. A1.

12. Maureen Dowd, "White House Isolation," New York Times, 22 Nov. 1991, p. A1.

13. See Civil Rights Act of 1990, S. 2104, p. 1, and the Civil Rights and Women's Equity in Employment Act of 1991, H.R. 1.

14. Civil Rights and Women's Equity in Employment Act of 1991, H.R. 1, 102d Congress, 1st sess., Rep. No. 102-40, part 1, p. 93. Also see James Ridgeway, "Quota, Unquota," Village Voice 36, no. 23 (4 June 1991): 15.

15. Julie Johnson, "What Bush Is Making of Civil Rights," New York Times, 3 December 1989, p. E4. Also see Steven Holmes, "Major Civil Rights Bill Heads for Senate," New York Times, 10 July 1990, p. A17.

16. Adam Clymer, "Bush Assails 'Quota Bill' at West Point Graduation," New York Times, 2 June 1991, p. A32.

17. Sheilah A. Goodman, "Trying to Undo the Damage: The Civil Rights Act of 1990," Harvard Women's Law Journal 14 (Spring 1991): 185-221.

18. See the following articles by Adam Clymer: "Debate over Civil Rights Bill Raises Questions about the Law and Job Bias," New York Times, 26 May 1991, p. A22; "Bush Denounces Civil Rights Bill Advocated by House Democrats," New York Times, 31 May 1991, p. A1; "Rights Bill Passes in House But Vote Is Not Veto-Proof," New York Times, 6 June 1991, p. A1; "Impasse Seen in Push for Civil Rights Compromise,'' New York Times, 28 June 1991, p. A12; "Study Says Bush's Stand on Civil Rights Bill Contradicts the Courts," New York Times, 28 July 1991, p. A14; ''Senate Democrats Back Compromise on Civil Rights Bill," New York Times, 26 Oct. 1991, p. A1; "Senate Passes Civil Rights Bill, 95-5, Ending a Bitter Debate over Job Bias," New York Times, 31 Oct. 1991, p. A20; and "Bush Heatedly Defends His Record on Civil Rights," New York Times, 11 July 1991, p. A17.

19. Tim Rutten, "A New Kind of Riot," New York Review of Books 39, no. 11 (11 June 1992): 52. Also see Jack Miles, "Blacks vs. Browns," Atlantic Monthly 270, no. 4 (Oct. 1992): 41-68.

20. Cornel West, "Learning to Talk of Race," New York Times Magazine, 2 Aug. 1992, p. 24.

21. R. W. Apple, Jr., "Bush Says Largess Won't Help Cities," New York Times, 7 May 1992, p. A22; David Rosenbaum, "White House Speaking in Code on Riot's Cause," New York Times, 6 May 1992, p. A24; and Michael Wines, "White House Links Riots to Welfare," New York Times, 5 May 1992, p. A1.

22. Michael Wines, "President Focuses on 'Family Values,' " New York Times, 10 Mar. 1992, p. A15; and his "Bush Tells Graduates That Family, Not Government, Can Cure Nation's Ills," New York Times, 18 May 1992, p. A14.

23. For an interesting discussion of how the control of racial and sexual minorities is established through the control of the family, see Carrie G. Costell, "Legitimate Bonds and Unnatural Unions: Race, Sexual Orientation, and Control of the American Family," Harvard Women's Law Journal 15 (Spring 1992): 79-171.

24. Michael Wines, "Appeal of 'Murphy Brown' Now Clear at White House," New York Times, 21 May 1992, p. B16. Also see Andrew Rosenthal, "Quayle Says Riots Arose from Burst of Social Anarchy," New York Times, 20 May 1992, p. A1.

25. Wines, "Appeal of 'Murphy Brown,' " p. A1.

26. Playthell Benjamin, "Uncle Justice Thomas," Village Voice 36, no. 29 (16 July 1991): 27-34; John Hope Franklin, "Booker T. Washington, Revisited," New York Times, 1 Aug. 1991, p. A21; Linda Greenhouse, ''Court Choice Puts Nation's Racial Legacy on Table," New York Times, 8 July 1991, p. A9; Neil Lewis, "On Thomas's Climb, Ambivalence about Issue of Affirmative Action,'' New York Times, 14 July 1991, p. A1; Robert Pear, "Court Nominee Defied Labels as Head of Job-Rights Panel," New York Times, 16 Aug. 1991, p. A1; and Isabel Wilkerson, "A Remedy for Old Racism Has New Kind of Shackles," New York Times, 15 Sept. 1991, p. A1.

27. Clarence Thomas, Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal, 20 Feb. 1987, quoted in "Clarence Thomas in His Own Words," New York Times, 2 July 1991, p. A14.

28. Clarence Thomas, "Climb the Jagged Mountain" (Excerpt from commencement speech at Savannah State College on 9 June 1985), reprinted in New York Times, 17 July 1991, p. A21.

29. Thomas's anti-affirmative action stance led to much debate within the African American community and a lack of support by key civil rights groups. See Maya Angelou, "I Dare to Hope," New York Times, 25 Aug. 1991, p. E15; Richard Berke, "Judge Thomas Faces Bruising Battle with Liberals over Stand on Rights," New York Times, 4 July 1991, p. A12; Haywood Burns, "Clarence Thomas, A Counterfeit Hero," New York Times, 9 July 1991, p. A19; Guido Calabresi, "What Clarence Thomas Knows," New York Times, 28 July 1991, p. E15; Steven Holmes, "Black Quandary over Court Nominee," New York Times, 4 July 1991, p. A12; Steven Holmes, "N.A.A.C.P. and Top Labor Unite to Oppose Thomas," New York Times, 1 Aug. 1991, p. A1; Steven Holmes, "Another Rights Group Is Opposing Judge Thomas," New York Times, 14 Aug. 1991, p. A14; Elizabeth McCaughey, "The Real Clarence Thomas," New York Times, 9 Sept. 1991, p. A15; and Robert Suro, "Jackson Assails Thomas Selection But Warns Against All-Out Fight," New York Times, 11 July 1991, p. A17.

30. Clarence Thomas, as quoted in Neil Lewis, "From Poverty to U.S. Bench," New York Times, 2 July 1991, p. A15. Also see Maureen Dowd, "Conservative Black Judge, Clarence Thomas, Is Named to Marshall's Court Seat," New York Times, 2 July 1991, p. A1.

31. Marvin Warren, "Letter to the Editor: 'The Judge and His Sister: Growing Up Black,' " New York Times, 23 July 1991, p. A20; and Lisa Jones, "The Invisible Ones: The Emma Mae Martin Story, the One Thomas Didn't Tell," Village Voice 36, no. 46 (12 Nov. 1991): 27-28. Also see the selections in Toni Morrison, ed., Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (New York: Pantheon, 1992) for further discussion of the role of sexism in the life of Thomas's sister.

32. Carol Delaney, "Letter to the Editor, 'The Lives of Women,' " New York Times, 23 July 1991, p. A20.

33. Richard Berke, "Vote on Thomas Is Put Off As Senate Backing Erodes over Harassment Charge," New York Times, 9 Oct. 1991, p. A1; Richard Berke, "Thomas Accuser Tells Hearing of Obscene Talk and Advances; Judge Complains of Lynching," New York Times, 12 Oct. 1991, p. A1; Neil Lewis, "Judiciary Panel Deadlocks, 7-7, on Thomas Nomination for Court," New York Times, 28 Sept. 1991, p. A1; Robert Suro, "Thomas Accuser Defends Her Charge, and Herself,'' New York Times, 8 Oct. 1991, p. A21; and Tom Wicker, ''Blaming Anita Hill," New York Times, 10 Oct. 1991, p. A27.

34. See Toni Morrison, Introduction to Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, pp. vii-xxx; and Kimberle Crenshaw, "Whose Story Is It Anyway? Feminist and Antiracist Appropriations of Anita Hill," in Morrison, ed., Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, pp. 402-440. Also see Court of Appeal, ed. The Black Scholar (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992).

35. Clarence Thomas, as quoted in Maureen Dowd, "Taboo Issues of Sex and Race Explode in Glare of Hearing," New York Times, 13 Oct. 1991, p. A1.

36. Clarence Thomas, as quoted in Richard Berke, "Thomas Backers Attack Hill: Judge, Vowing He Won't Quit, Says He Is Victim of Race Stigma," New York Times, 13 Oct. 1991, p. A1. Also see R. W. Apple, Jr., "Spectacle of Degradation," New York Times, 13 Oct. 1991, p. A1.

37. Nell Irvin Painter, "Who Was Lynched?" Nation 253, no. 16 (11 Nov. 1991): 577.

38. Barbara Smith, "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around," Ms. 11, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1992): 38. Also see other discussions of Anita Hill in this volume by Patricia Williams, Marcia Ann Gillespie, and Eleanor Holmes Norton; and see Patricia Williams, "Clarence Thomas: A Fiction of Individualism," Radical America 24, no. 1 (Jan./March 1990; published Jan. 1992): 17-20.

39. Nell Irvin Painter, "Hill, Thomas, and the Use of Racial Stereotype," in Morrison, ed., Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, p. 209.

40. Anita Hill, as quoted in Felicity Barringer, "Anita Hill Offers Her Version of Senate Hearings," New York Times, 17 Oct. 1992, p. A6. Also see proceedings of the conference on "Race, Gender, and Power in America," available from Georgetown University Law Center.

41. Peter Applebome, "Despite Talk of Sexual Harassment, Thomas Hearings Turned on Race Issue," New York Times, 19 Oct. 1991, p. A8.

42. Maureen Dowd, "The Senate and Sexism," New York Times, 8 Oct. 1991, p. A1; Maureen Dowd, "Facing Issue of Harassment, Capitol Gets Bath in the Mud," New York Times, 10 Oct. 1991, p. A1; Alex Jones, "Newspaper Discloses Op-Ed Conflict," New York Times, 16 Oct. 1991, p. A21; Anna Quindlen, "Listen to Us," New York Times, Oct. 9, 1991, p. A25; Anna Quindlen, "The Perfect Victim," New York Times, 16 Oct. 1991, p. A25.

43. For a detailed accounting of the Senate Judiciary Committee's activities, see Timothy M. Phelps and Helen Winternitz, Capitol Games: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of a Supreme Court Nomination (New York: Hyperion Press, 1992).

44. Orlando Patterson, "Race, Gender, and Liberal Fallacies," New York

Times, 20 Oct. 1991, p. E15. For a fuller discussion, see Emma Coleman Jordan, "Race, Gender, and Social Class in the Thomas Sexual Harassment Hearings: The Hidden Fault Lines in Political Discourse," Harvard Women's Law Journal 15 (Summer 1992): 1-24.

45. Neil Lewis, "Court Nominee Is Linked to Anti-Abortion Stand," New York Times, 3 July 1991, p. A1; Richard Goldstein, "Don't Mourn, Organize," Village Voice 36, no. 44 (29 Oct. 1991): 26. See also Lewis Lehrman, "The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Life," American Spectator 20, no. 4 (April 1987): 22.

46. Of course, all women do not view the problem of sexual harassment in the same light, and all black women did not support Anita Hill's charges. See Felicity Barringer, "The Drama as Viewed by Women," New York Times, 18 Oct. 1991, p. A12.

47. Terry Eastland, "Bush and the Politics of Race," New York Times, 3 July 1991, p. A19; Robin Toner, "Capturing an Era's Racial Conflicts and Ironies," New York Times, 7 July 1991, p. E1; and Robin Toner, "Having Ridden Racial Issues, Parties Try to Harness Them," New York Times, 27 Oct. 1991, p. A1.

48. Neil Lewis, "Judge's Backers Seek to Undercut Hill," New York Times, 13 Oct. 1991, p. A28.

49. Michael deCourcy Hinds, "Another Surprise May Be Looming," New York Times, 26 Apr. 1992, p. A25; Deborah Sontag, "Anita Hill and Revitalizing Feminism," New York Times, 26 Apr. 1992, p. A31; and Anna Quindlen, "Gender Contender," New York Times, 26 Apr. 1992, p. E19.

50. Patterson, "Race, Gender and Liberal Fallacies," p. E15.

51. Isabel Wilkerson, "Riots Shook Affluent Blacks Trying to Balance Two Worlds," New York Times, 10 May 1992, p. A1.

52. Also see Linda Greenhouse, "Justice Thomas Hits the Ground Running," New York Times, 1 Mar. 1992, p. E1; Neil A. Lewis, "Lower-Court Ruling by Thomas Backs Affirmative-Action Limits," New York Times, 20 Feb. 1992, p. A1; and Lamprecht v. FCC, 958 F. 2d 382 (D.C. Cir. 1992).

53. Eric Schmitt, "Ban on Women in Combat Divides Four Service Chiefs," New York Times, 19 June 1991, p. A16, and his "Senate Votes to Remove Ban on Women as Combat Pilots," New York Times, 1 Aug. 1991, p. A1.

54. Peter Applebome, "Ripples of Pain As U.S. Dips Deeper into Military," New York Times, 31 Jan. 1991, p. A12. Also see Adam Clymer, "A Home Front with No Parents at Home," New York Times, 16 Feb. 1991, p. A10; Jane Gross, "Needs of Family and Country: Missions on a Collision Course," New York Times, 9 Dec. 1990, p. A1; and Jane Gross, "Early Lessons in Wounds of the Spirit,'' New York Times, 19 Feb. 1991, p. A8.

55. Judith Miller, "Saudi Arabia: The Struggle Within," New York Times Magazine, 10 Mar. 1990, pp. 27-46.

56. Youssef Ibrahim, "Saudi Women Take Driver's Seat in Protest," New York Times, 7 Nov. 1990, p. A1; Youssef Ibrahim, "An Outcry from the Saudis' Liberal Minority," New York Times, 9 Nov. 1990, p. A15; and James LeMoyne, "Ban on Driving by Women Reaffirmed by Saudis," New York Times, 15 Nov. 1990, p. A19.

57. See Cynthia Enloe, "Womenandchildren: Making Feminist Sense of the

Persian Gulf Crisis," Village Voice 35, no. 39 (25 Sept. 1991): 29-32; her Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989), and her Does Khaki Become You? (Boston: South End Press, 1983). Also see Ann Scales, "Militarism, Male Dominance and Feminist Jurisprudence as Oxymoron," Harvard Women's Law Journal 12 (1989): 25-73.

58. "The General: It's a Great Day to Be a Soldier," New York Times, 9 March 1991, 37.

59. As quoted in Michael Ryan, "Here's to the Winners," Life 1, no. 4 (18 Mar. 1991): 37.

60. Bay Area Socialist Review Collective, "Warring Stories: Reading and Contesting the New World Order" (Pamphlet), p. 7. Distributed by Socialist Review, 3202 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA 94703.

61. Lee Daniels, "With Military Set to Thin Ranks, Blacks Fear They'll Be Hurt Most," New York Times, 7 Aug. 1991, p. A1.

62. Brenda Moore, "African-American Women in the U.S. Military," Armed Forces and Society 17, no. 3 (Spring 1991): 363.

63. George Bush, as quoted in Daniel Barbezat and Alexander George, "Who Died for Whose Way of Life? Reflections on the Burdens of Race," Monthly Review 43, no. 4 (Sept. 1991): 34.

64. Jason DeParle, "Keeping the News in Step: Are the Pentagon's Gulf War Rules Here to Stay?" New York Times, 6 May 1991, p. A9. Also see Alex Jones, "Feast of Viewing, But Little Nourishment," New York Times, 19 Jan. 1991, p. A10; and Tom Wicker, "An Unknown Casualty," New York Times, 20 Mar. 1991, p. A29.

65. See the federal lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of The Nation, Harper's, Mother Jones, and other publications against Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense: Nation Magazine v. Department of Defense, 762 F. Supp. 1558 (S.D.N.Y. 1991). Also see the Press Guidelines available from the Department of Defense.

66. " 'Fighting Words': Novelists, Activists, Scholars, and Poets Take Sides on the War," Village Voice 36, no. 8 (19 Feb. 1991): 34-42.

67. See the extraordinarily interesting articles by Doug Lummis and Mojtaba Sadria, "The United States, Japan, and the Gulf War," Monthly Review 43, no. 11 (Apr. 1992): 1-16; and Samir Amin, "The Real Stakes in the Gulf War," Monthly Review 43, no. 3 (July-Aug. 1991): 14-24.

68. Wicker, "Unknown Casualty," p. 29.

69. Anthony Lewis, "On His Word Alone," New York Times, 12 Jan. 1991, p. E19. Also see Theodore Draper, "The True History of the Gulf War," New York Review of Books 39, no. 3 (30 Jan. 1992): 38-45; and Jean Edward Smith, George Bush's War (New York: Henry Holt, 1992).

70. For important critiques of the Gulf War, see Michael Emery, "How the U.S. Avoided Peace," Village Voice 36, no. 10 (5 March 1991): 22-27; Edward Greer, "The Hidden History of the Iraq War," Monthly Review 43, no. 1 (May 1991): 1-14; Christopher Hitchens, "Why We Are Stuck in the Sand," Harper's Magazine 282, no. 1688 (Jan. 1991): 70-79; Tom Mayer, "Imperialism and the Gulf War," Monthly Review 42, no. 11 (April 1991): 1-16; Charles

William Maynes, "Stopping the War," Nation 252, no. 8 (4 Mar. 1991): 255-56; Micah Sifry, "America, Oil and Intervention," Nation 252, no. 9 (11 Mar. 1991): 296-300.

71. See Mark Crispin Miller, "Operation Desert Storm," New York Times, 24 June 1992, p. A21; and his Spectacle: Operation Desert Storm and the Triumph of Illusion (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992). Also see Haim Bresheeth and Nira Yuval-Davis, The Gulf War and the New World Order (London: Zed Books, 1992); Stephen Graubard, Mr. Bush's War: Adventures in the Politics of Illusion (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992); John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992); Elaine Sciolino with Michael Wines, "Bush's Greatest Glory Fades As Questions on Iraq Persist," New York Times, 27 June 1992, p. A1; Hedrick Smith, ed., The Media and the Gulf War: The Press and Democracy in Wartime (Arlington, Va.: Seven Locks Press, 1992).

72. "Excerpts from President's Speech to University of Michigan Graduates," New York Times, 5 May 1991, p. A32. Also see Maureen Dowd, "Bush Sees Threat to Flow of Ideas on U.S. Campuses," New York Times, 5 May 1991, p. A1; and C. Vann Woodward, "Freedom and the Universities," New York Review of Books 38, no. 13 (18 July 1991): 32-37.

73. Bruce Robbins, "Tenured Radicals, the New McCarthyism, and 'PC,' " New Left Review 188 (July/Aug. 1991): 152.

74. It remains to be seen what impact the Supreme Court decision R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 112 S. Ct. 2538 (1992), will have on hate speech codes on college campuses. In this decision, the Court found that a St. Paul ordinance used to prosecute a person for burning a cross inside the fenced property of a black family was unconstitutional. The ordinance was found to be too broad and limiting of freedom of speech.

75. Alexander Cockburn, "Bush and P.C.—A Conspiracy So Immense," Nation 252, no. 20 (27 May 1991): 685-92. Also see Gary Indiana, "Victory Lite," Village Voice 36, no. 24 (11 June 1991): 28-35; and Richard Goldstein, "The Politics of Political Correctness," Village Voice 36, no. 25 (18 June 1991): 39-41.

76. Stanley Fish, "There's No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too," in Debating P.C., ed. Paul Berman (New York: Dell, 1992), p. 245.

77. "The Big Chill" (Transcript from a series on political correctness on MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, broadcast on PBS in the fall of 1991), p. 13. Also see Michael Berube, "Public Image Limited," Village Voice 36, no. 25 (18 June 1991): 31-37.

78. Joe Conarroe, "How I'm PC," New York Times, 12 July 1991, p. A29.

79. Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), pp. 391, 34, 88, 30, 320.

80. Dinesh D'Souza, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (New York: The Free Press, 1991), pp. 51, 250, 55, 241, 243.

81. Gene H. Bell-Villada, "Is the American Mind Getting Dumber?" Monthly Review 43, no. 1 (May 1991): 41-55.

82. Ibid., p. 251.

83. Karen Houppert, "Wildflowers among the Ivy," Ms. 11, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1991): 58.

84. Cockburn, "Bush and P.C.," p. 691.

85. Ibid.

86. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?" New York Times, 4 May 1991, p. A23. Also see his Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

87. Michel Marriott, "Afrocentrism: Balancing or Skewing History?" New York Times, 11 Aug. 1991, p. A1.

88. Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987), vol. 1.

89. Christopher Phelps, "The Second Time As Farce: The Right's 'New McCarthyism,' " Monthly Review 43, no. 5 (Oct. 1991): 47. Also see the discussion "Revolution and Reaction," in The Women's Review of Books 9, no. 5 (Feb. 1992): 13-18; and Barbara Epstein, " 'Political Correctness' and Collective Powerlessness," Socialist Review 21, no. 3-4 (July-Dec. 1991): 13-35.

90. John Leland, "Rap and Race," Newsweek 119, no. 26 (29 June 1992): 46-49; Sheila Rule, "Rapper Chided by Clinton, Calls Him a Hypocrite," New York Times, 17 June 1992, p. A22.

91. R. W. Apple, Jr., "Jackson Sees a 'Character Flaw' in Clinton's Remarks on Racism," New York Times, 19 June 1992, p. A1; Gwen Ifill, "Clinton Won't Back Down in Tiff with Jackson over a Rap Singer," New York Times, 20 June 1992, p. A1.

92. For interesting discussion of Perot's candidacy, see James K. Galbraith, "Perot's Plan: Too Much Pain, Too Little Gain," New York Times, 31 July 1992, p. A27; Susan Dentzer with Jerry Buckley, "Ross Perot's Bitter Tonic," U.S. News and World Report 113, no. 5 (3 Aug. 1992): 28-31; Frank Snepp, "Ross Perot's Private War on Drugs," Village Voice 38, no. 23 (9 June 1992): 25-28; Frank Snepp, "Where Perot Dares," Village Voice 38, no. 29 (21 July 1992): 33-35; Michael Tomasky, "Regarding Henry: Politics Requires Compromise, Dirty Dealings, and Ruthless Tactics, H. Ross Perot's a Natural,'' Village Voice 38, no. 21 (26 May 1992): 27-35; and Garry Wills, ''The Rescuer," New York Review of Books 39, no. 12 (25 June 1992): 28-34.

93. Maureen Dowd, "Hillary Clinton as Aspiring First Lady: Role Model or a 'Hall Monitor' Type?" New York Times, 18 May 1992, p. A15; Karen Lehrman, "Beware the Cookie Monster," New York Times, 18 July 1992, p. A24; Alessandra Stanley, "A Softer Image for Hillary Clinton," New York Times, 13 July 1992, p. B1; and Garry Wills, "H. R. Clinton's Case," New York Review of Books 39, no. 5 (5 Mar. 1992), pp. 3-6.

94. Alessandra Stanley, " 'Family Values' and Women: Is G.O.P. a House Divided?" New York Times, 21 Aug. 1992, p. A1.

95. Garry Wills, "The Born-Again Republicans," New York Review of Books 38, no. 15 (24 Sept. 1992): 9-14. See also, in this same issue, Joan Didion, "Eye on the Prize," pp. 57-66.

96. Andrew Rosenthal, "Bush Pulls Close in Poll, But Not with Women," New York Times, 11 Aug. 1992, p. A1; Michael Wines, "Bush Seeks to Cast Himself as a Free-Market Feminist," New York Times, 19 Sept. 1992, p. A7.

97. Marilyn Quayle argued that her ideas were being falsely represented by the media. See her "Workers, Wives and Mothers," New York Times, 11 Sept. 1992, p. A35.


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Preferred Citation: Eisenstein, Zillah R. The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft887008bb/