From: Sarah Martin <SMartin-AT-rtp-exchange.fhi.org>
Subject: Hillary Clinton Comment
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:05:50 -0400



> From article "Co-President Hillary Is Sati, not Feminist"  By NEERA
> 
> KUCKREJA SOHONI
> in The Times of India, Monday 12 October 1998
> 
> http://www.timesofindia.com/today/12edit11.htm
> 
> The American 'First Lady' is no different from an aunt or cousin or
> sister we "unemancipated Indian women" grew up with. Faced with an
> abusive spouse, what did we see or hear our mothers advise? "Go back
> to him, girl! That is your home. He is your all." Seeing Mrs. Clinton
> re-play and re-live that advice is the biggest travesty of the current
> scandal. It is painful but necessary to discard her as a dream
> feminist or role-model. She fails feminism because she places herself
> last or least or less than her other incarnations-as wife, as First
> Lady, as US citizen coming eagerly to the defence of an
> "endangered" presidency.
> 
>