Women Gender Study: Analysis of Living History by Hillary Clinton

Women and Gender Study: Analysis of “Living History” by Hillary Clinton
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Women and Gender Study: Analysis of “Living History” by Hillary Clinton
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THESIS: This research will analyze Hillary Clinton’s book “Living History” (2003), particularly the text where she declares that the rights of women demand a similar treatment as human rights and compares the rest of other sections where she openly shows hyper-masculinity in a male-dominated society, especially in politics.
* Introduction
* Hillary Clinton and rights of women (Clinton, 2003)
* Analysis of text using sources
* Women’s rights (Clinton, 2003)
* Women, politics, and feminism (Oles-Acevado, 2012; Smith, 2012)
* Conclusion
Significance of findings
From the findings, it appears that politicians can invest energy is making false claims to clean their image in public. In her autobiography, “Living History” seems to be a campaign tool devised to woo the American voters by convincing them that women can also have a chance to run for top political positions. An article by Oles-Acevado (2012) analyzes how politicians create their images in public by applying Benoit's theory. While not exclusively employed, Benoit’s theory of public image is seen to have been a great tool Clinton used in her campaigns along with her speeches that reflected the power of women in American politics. She used gender and image.
In another article by Smith (2013), the authenticity of Clinton as a feminist or a woman fighting for the rights of women is questioned using her autobiography "Living History." She fails to identify the fact that the government at the time of writing, even to the present date, was largely masculinized. Despite such an intentional myopic approach to women's rights, she dedicates a chapter where she discusses issues of women's rights mainly to divert the readers' attention and deceive them that she is a true icon of feminism. In the chapter, she declares that women’s rights are human rights, a phrase that has been echoed by the United Nations Human Rights Commission to defend women rights in society.
The texts used in this paper are to criticize Hillary Clinton’s role and image as a feminist, as publicly perceived, and clarify that the autobiography is only a campaign tool that was supposed to prepare her for a win. It is a common trend for politicians to be careful about what they say or do in public to protect their image. For this reason, the autobiography was crafted to fulfill a political interest of the writer and Clinton's views about issues of women's rights in the memoir may not be taken seriously.
Annotated Bibliography
Oles-Acevado, D. (2012). Fixing the Hillary factor: Examining the trajectory of Hillary Clinton’s image repair from political bumbler to political powerhouse. American Communication Journal, 14(1), 33-46
Oles-Acevado (2012) criticizes the approach of public shows that Hillary Clinton has mastered in cleaning her image already tormented in the past with scandals ranging from the Monica Lewinsky’s case using the Benoit’s theory of public i...