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Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister
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Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister is senior writer for Salon, where she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment since 2003, and where she covered the 2008 presidential campaign from a feminist perspective. She has also written for Elle, the Nation, the New York Observer, Vogue and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

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Big Girls Don't Cry will be released on June 07, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Jun 07, 2011
Big Girls Don't Cry is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 07, 2011
Big Girls Don't Cry will be released on September 14, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 14, 2010
Big Girls Don't Cry is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 14, 2010
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Columbia Journalism Review, April 16, 2012
...feminist’s dream. But powerful female editors not using stupid reductive backlash stories as cover bait IS. — Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) April 16, 2012 So does this mean that stay-at-home moms are all doms? thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/… —...
Indian Express, March 24, 2012
...any battles. Im a writer, not a political organiser, she said. Gloria Steinem did not invent feminism, said Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Dont Cry. She was a figurehead chosen by the media for complicated reasons. She was young and white and...
Buffalo News, February 20, 2012
...The Huffington Post Women's Margaret Wheeler Johnson offers this entertaining summary of the dust-up. Meanwhile, Salon's Rebecca Traister issued this lacerating tweet: "Metrics: multiply author's femininity by subject's femininity, divide by book sales?...
WA Today, February 4, 2012
...relationships [at high school]?'' The subsequent Twitter storm led prominent American writers from The New York Times's Rebecca Traister to The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum to weigh in. ''I'm not sure why having a boyfriend is a measure of your health as...
Brisbane Times, February 3, 2012
...relationships [at high school]?'' The subsequent Twitter storm led prominent American writers from The New York Times's Rebecca Traister to The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum to weigh in. ''I'm not sure why having a boyfriend is a measure of your health as...
Huffington Post, July 22, 2011
...in American politics and the future of feminism. Tracing the historic 2008 Presidential election from a feminist perspective, Rebecca Traister brings familiar characters and history to life in a spellbinding way -- even for those of us who had front row...
NPR, June 23, 2011
...Brien tells 11 tales of sex, love and death, and Steve Stern romps through 20th century Jewish history. Rebecca Traister surveys how the 2008 election changed politics for women, Darin Strauss absorbs a classmate's death, and Hilary Spurling resurrects...
Salon, March 2, 2012
...side, Laura Miller and my former colleagues Heather Havrilesky and Stephanie Zacharek, some of the smartest writers anywhere; Rebecca Traister is one of the bravest, clearest writers on feminism and American politics that I know. And Mary Elizabeth...
New Rochelle Patch, February 27, 2012
...and Future of Women in Politics" at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The lecture will be given by Rebecca Traister, senior editor for Salon.com and author of “Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women.” The College of New...
Pelham Patch, February 27, 2012
...and Future of Women in Politics" at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The lecture will be given by Rebecca Traister, senior editor for Salon.com and author of “Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women.” The College of New...
Poughkeepsie Journal, February 24, 2012
...Roosevelts journey into feminism and activism.A second talk, Big Girls Dont Cry, with Salon.com senior writer Rebecca Traister, will be at 12:30 p.m. March 8 in the theater and will discuss Traisters coverage of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Michelle...
Poughkeepsie Journal, February 24, 2012
...Roosevelts journey into feminism and activism.A second talk, Big Girls Dont Cry, with Salon.com senior writer Rebecca Traister, will be at 12:30 p.m. March 8 in the theater and will discuss Traisters coverage of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Michelle...
Buffalo News, February 20, 2012
...The Huffington Post Women's Margaret Wheeler Johnson offers this entertaining summary of the dust-up. Meanwhile, Salon's Rebecca Traister issued this lacerating tweet: "Metrics: multiply author's femininity by subject's femininity, divide by book sales?...