“Whatever gauzy, Fabio-induced fantasies they had”: Orenstein, Flux.
When you consider that one in four women: Nancy Gibbs, “When Is It Rape?” Time, June 3, 1991, http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,973077–1,00.html.
A Pentagon report later found: Eric Schmitt, “Senior Navy Officers Suppressed Sex Investigation, Pentagon Says,” New York Times, September 25, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/25/us/senior-navy-officers-suppressed-sex-investigation-pentagon-says.html.
“If I could get every young person”: Claudia Dreifus, “Joycelyn Elders,” New York Times, January 30, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/30/magazine/joycelyn-elders.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0.
“is something that’s part of human sexuality”: Patricia Smith, “Elders’ Sin: Delivering Us from Ignorance,” Boston Globe, December 14, 1994.
“pardoned Pee-Wee Herman”: Salmagundi, “Hey, Kiddies, You Sure Were Fooled If You Fell for That . . .” Baltimore Sun, January 3, 1995, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-01-03/news/1995003168_1_joycelyn-elders-claus-nicholas.
“filled with teenage boys”: Salmagundi, “Hey, Kiddies, You Sure Were Fooled if You Fell for That . . .”
In a Top Ten list of least-convincing alibis: “Late Show Top Ten,” accessed November 8, 2017, http://www.oocities.org/jay lipp/Letterman/topten95.html.
“went out of its way to make clear that her resignation had not been voluntary”: Douglas Jehl, “Surgeon General Forced to Resign by White House,” New York Times, December 10, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/10/us/surgeon-general-forced-to-resign-by-white-house.html.
“If she had not resigned”: Jehl, “Surgeon General Forced to Resign by White House.”
“I went to Washington feeling like prime steak”: “Then & Now: Joycelyn Elders,” CNN, July 20, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/18/cnn25.tan.elders/.
forty thousand prescriptions: Jacque Wilson, “Viagra: The Little Blue Pill That Could,” CNN, March 27, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/health/viagra-anniversary-timeline/index.html.
“Being a horn dog was part of his persona.” Ty West, interview with the author, October 5, 2015.
Monica Lewinsky herself had mocked: Andrew Morton, Monica’s Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 123.
“It was riveting to know”: Howard Kurtz, “Going Weak in the Knees for Clinton,” Washington Post, July 6, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/medianotes070698.htm.
“He’d say, ‘That’s a great skirt’”: Tabitha Soren, interview with the author, April 2015.
a hand-wringing report: Anne Jarrell, “The Face of Teenage Sex Grows Younger,” New York Times, April 2, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/style/the-face-of-teenage-sex-grows-younger.html?pagewanted=all.
“appealing to more than a small fraction of people”: Lewin, “Sex in America: Faithfulness in Marriage Thrives After All.”
Researcher Laura Carpenter looked at two decades’ worth: Laura M. Carpenter, “From Girls into Women: Scripts for Sexuality and Romance in Seventeen Magazine, 1974–1994,” Journal of Sex Research 35, no. 2 (May 1998).
CHAPTER 3: THE GOLDILOCKS CONUNDRUM
“Perhaps this would be the dream job I had hoped for”: Anita Hill, Speaking Truth to Power (New York: Anchor Books, 1998), 60.
“I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex”: Anita Hill, “Opening Statement for the Senate Judiciary Committee,” C-SPAN, YouTube video, aired October 11, 1991, 1:43:51, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/anitahillsenatejudiciary statement.htm.
This tactic dates back to slavery: Cristen Conger, “The Legal History of Sexual Harassment,” March 28, 2016, in Stuff Mom Never Told You, HowStuffWorks.com, podcast, 49:52, http://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/podcasts/the-legal-history-of-sexual-harassment.htm.
“It was immoral for young girls to be working alongside men”: Tamar Lewin, “Archives of Business: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace; A Grueling Struggle for Equality,” New York Times, November 9, 1986, http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/09/business/archives-business-sexual-harassment-workplace-grueling-struggle-for-equality.html?pagewanted=all.
Lin Farley coined it: Lin Farley, “I Coined the Term ‘Sexual Harassment.’ Corporations Stole It,” New York Times, October 18, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/opinion/sexual-harassment-corporations-steal.html.
acknowledged the problem of sexual harassment: Lewin, “Archives of Business: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.”
“I certainly hope so”: Brooke Hauser, Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman (New York: HarperCollins, 2016).
“unwelcome sexual advances”: “Sexual Harassment,” US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, accessed March 2016, http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm.
“I felt as though I had been dipped”: Hill, Speaking Truth to Power, 95.
investigators were inexperienced with sexual harassment: Melissa Harris-Perry, “EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Harris-Perry Interviews Anita Hill, 25 Years Later,” Essence, March 30, 2016, http://www.essence.com/2016/04/06/exclusive-melissa-harris-perry-interviews-anita-hill-25-years-later.
“I suspected that I would have been”: Hill, Speaking Truth to Power, 113.
Hill’s initial desire for anonymity: Timothy Phelps and Helen Winternitz, Capitol Games: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of a Supreme Court Nomination (New York: Hyperion, 1992), 231.
“Is this the whole thing”: Phelps and Winternitz, Capitol Games, 240.
“Whoever did this ought to be shot”: Phelps and Winternitz, Capitol Games, 234.
Hill, her legal team: Reuters, “THE THOMAS NOMINATION; Excerpts From Senate’s Hearings on the Thomas Nomination,” New York Times, October 12, 1991, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/12/us/the-thomas-nomination-excerpts-from-senate-s-hearings-on-the-thomas-nomination.html?pagewanted=1.
“most embarrassing incidents alleged”: Committee on the Judiciary, Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to Be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1993), https://www.loc.gov/law/find/nominations/thomas/hearing-pt4.pdf.
“a foul stack of stench”: Judi Hasson, “A System Under Fire: Mud Bath Displaces Decorum,” USA Today, October 14, 1991.
“It was my opinion”: Joe Battenfeld and Andrew Miga, “Hill Sticks to Her Story—Thomas Rips ‘Sleaze,’” Boston Herald, October 12, 1991.
“product of fantasy”: Battenfeld and Miga, “Hill Sticks to Her Story.”
55 percent of men and 49 percent of women: Priscilla Painton, “Woman Power,” Time, October 28, 1991.
Erotomania still appears: Miles E. Drake Jr., “Delusional Disorder DSM-5 297.1 (F22),” Theravive, accessed July 2017, http://www.theravive.com/therapedia/Delusional-Disorder-DSM-5-297.1-(F22).
“little is known about the background”: N. Kennedy, M. McDonough, B. Kelly, and G. E. Berrios, “Erotomania Revisited: Clinical Course and Treatment,” Comparative Psychology 43, no. 1 (January–February 2002): 1–6, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11788912.
“tactics against sexual harassment”: Greg Scott and Brian Martin, “Tactics Against Sexual Harassment: The Role of Backfire,” Journal of International Women’s Studies 7, no. 4 (May 2006): 111–125, http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi ?article=1464&context=jiws.
“a rare delusion of some women”: John C. Danforth, Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas (New York: Viking, 1994), 155.
“The issue of what I was doing”: Dominick Dunne, “The Verdict,” Vanity Fair, March 1992.
“aggressive perpetrator”: David Margolick, “Smith Tells Rapt Courtroom His Side of Story,” New York Times, December 11, 1991, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/11/us/smith-tells-rapt-courtroom-his-side-of-story.html?pagewanted=all.
“A stalker who tried to blackmail”: Morton, Monica’s Story, 203.
“Why should I allow”: Hill, Speaking Truth
to Power, 138.
“If what you say this man said to you occurred”: Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, “The Thomas Hearings: How Far Is Too Far?” 20/20 October 11, 1991.
He presented these obscurities: Ann McDaniel, “The Attack of the Bush Men,” Newsweek, October 28, 1991.
“They thought the more they pressed”: Anita Hill, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, directed by Freida Lee Mock (New York: First Run Features, 2014).
“X-rated Drama in a Regal Setting”: Andrew Miga, “X-rated Drama in a Regal Setting,” Boston Herald, October 12, 1991.
“the most lurid and dispiriting proceeding”: Tom Shales, “Looking Back, Looking Ahead; Television ’91: Onward & Downward; When the Lowest Common Denominator Fell Lower,” Washington Post, December 29, 1991.
“run from the TV set directly to the showers”: Tom Shales, “The Hard-to-Watch Drama That Left No One Unscathed,” Washington Post, October 12, 1991.
“It’s the first time we’ve got a story”: Patrick Brogan, “Sexual Politics: Clarence Thomas—Victim of Lynch Mob or Lecher Exposed?” Observer, October 13, 1991.
“impressed by the way Thomas”: McDaniel, “The Attack of the Bush Men.”
“pretending to be offended”: Jill Niebrugge-Brantley, “A Feminist Writes about the Anita Hill–Clarence Thomas Conflict,” http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/brantley.htm.
“African American Women in Defense of Ourselves”: Elsa Barkley Brown, Deborah King, and Barbara Ransby, “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves,” New York Times, November 17, 1991.
Hill was a victim of intersectional disempowerment: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, “Black Women Still in Defense of Ourselves,” Nation, October 5, 2011, https://www.thenation.com/article/black-women-still-defense-ourselves/.
another black female associate: Phelps and Winternitz, Capitol Games, 398.
“I knew that Clarence Thomas was capable”: Michel Martin, “Justice Clarence Thomas Accuser Angela Wright Says Thomas ‘Perjured Himself onto the Supreme Court,’” NPR News, October 9, 2007, http://www.npr.org/about/press/2007/100907.wright.html.
“If you were young”: Ruth Marcus, “One Angry Man,” Washington Post, October 3, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100201822.html.
On her first day at work: Morton, Monica’s Story, 62.
It spanned more than two years: Morton, Monica’s Story, 5.
“immature and inappropriate behavior”: “A Chronology: Key Moments in the Clinton-Lewinsky Saga,” CNN, 1998, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/resources/lewinsky/timeline/.
Lewinsky was devastated: Morton, Monica’s Story.
Tripp surreptitiously recorded: “A Chronology: Key Moments in the Clinton-Lewinsky Saga,” CNN.
On January 12, Tripp called: Morton, Monica’s Story, 170.
“the most riveting chapter of recent American history”: Richard A. Posner, “An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton,” New York Times, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/posner-affair.html.
“low-cut blouses” and “thigh-high skirts”: Laura Ingraham, “‘All About Monica’—Lessons From a Morality Play,” Los Angeles Times, May 3, 1998, http://articles.latimes.com/1998/may/03/opinion/op-45872.
When she visited her father in Los Angeles: Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, “The Eye of the Storm,” Newsweek, February 16, 1998.
“Clinton bimbo”: Dorothy Rabinowitz, “Juanita Broaddrick Meets the Press,” Wall Street Journal, February 19, 1999, http://www.anusha.com/wsjbroad.htm.
“Big Mac”: Morton, Monica’s Story, 23.
The repeated fat-shaming stung: Morton, Monica’s Story, 62.
They reported on what they thought she ate: Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Monica Takes Manhattan,” New York, March 19, 2001, http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/4481/.
“overlit her face to make it appear thinner”: Bill Hoffman, “The Sultry Pepperpot!; Di’s Fotog Brings Out Best in Monica,” New York Post, March 19, 1999, http://nypost.com/1999/03/19/the-sultry-pepperpot-dis-fotog-brings-out-best-in-monica/.
“the girl who was too tubby”: Maureen Dowd, “President Irresistible,” New York Times, February 18, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/18/opinion/liberties-president-irresistible.html.
“Before she became obsessed”: Jeffrey Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 84.
“chubby” and “cute, if a little zaftig”: Jake Tapper, “I Dated Monica Lewinsky,” Washington City Paper, January 30, 1998, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/14334/i-dated-monica-lewinsky.
“as an oversized”: Jennifer-Scott Mobley, “Fatsploitation: Disgust and the Performance of Weight Loss,” in Fat: Culture and Materiality, eds. Christopher E. Forth and Alison Leitch (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
“for her fresh and insightful columns”: “1999 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism,” Pulitzer Prizes, accessed November 4, 2017, http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1999.
“ditsy, predatory White House intern”: Amanda Hess, “‘Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern,’” Slate, May 7, 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/05/monica_lewinsky_returns_how_maureen_dowd_caricatured_bill_clinton_s_mistress.html.
“the Troubled Slut Defense”: Dowd, “President Irresistible.”
“Moremean Dowdy”: Monica Lewinsky, “Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky Writes about Her Affair with President Clinton,” Vanity Fair, May 6, 2014, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks.
In the August 1998 column: Maureen Dowd, “Monica Gets Her Man,” New York Times, August 23, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/23/opinion/liberties-monica-gets-her-man.html.
He remarked to her father: Morton, Monica’s Story, 229.
Monica Lewinsky was accused of suffering: Maureen Dowd, Are Men Necessary? (New York: Penguin, 2005), 81.
It found that women were: Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes, “Stalking in America: Findings from the National Violence against Women Survey,” National Institute of Justice Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 1998, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/169592.pdf.
“the most-watched news interview”: Brian Lowry and Elizabeth Jensen, “Huge Ratings for Lewinsky,” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1999, http://articles.latimes.com/1999/mar/05/enter tainment/ca-14057.
Glaze by Club Monaco: Barbara Walters, Audition: A Memoir (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2008).
“People felt free to leave the most cruel and revolting messages imaginable”: Hill, Speaking Truth to Power, 129.
“We felt that people would focus on her and not stay with the institutional message”: “Liz and Larry in Morocco. Notes from All Over on Hill and Thomas,” Toronto Star, October 27, 1991.
“fatal assistant”: Virginia Lamp Thomas, “Breaking Silence,” People, November 11, 1991, http://people.com/archive/cover-story-breaking-silence-vol-36-no-18/.
Hill had myomectomy surgery: Hill, Speaking Truth to Power, 261.
“effectively committed perjury”: David Brock, Booknotes, C-SPAN, June 13, 1993, http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/430 09-1/David-Brock.
The all-male Senate Judiciary Committee: Caryl Rivers, “Perspectives on Testimony; Is There No Believable Woman?” Los Angeles Times, December 12, 1991.
biblical women: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, directed by Mock.
“less about success than survival”: Hill, Speaking Truth to Power, 99.
In the six years following: Nina Totenberg, “Thomas Confirmation Hearings Had Ripple Effect,” NPR, October 11, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/10/11/141213260/thomas-confirmation-hearings-had-ripple-effect.
“Being consumed with anger”: Leslie Bennetts, “Anita Hill Discusses Clarence Thomas Twenty Years Later,” Newsweek, October 3, 2011, http://www.newsweek.com/anita-hill-discusses-clarence-thomas-twenty-years-later-68241.
a reason the kind of harassm
ent she experienced persists today: Gretchen Carlson, conversation at TEDWomen, November 2, 2017.
More than 70 percent of adults: Maeve Duggan, “Online Harassment,” Pew Research Center, October 22, 2014, http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment.
“Where is the guy brave enough”: Richard Cohen, “Fairness for Lewinsky,” Washington Post, January 2, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100701.html.
reportedly using tax dollars to do so: Jim Ruttenberg and Robbie Brown, “Governor Used State’s Money to Visit Lover,” New York Times, June 25, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/26sanford.html.
Through tears, she thanked her own tormentors: Alexandra Schwartz, “Monica Lewinsky and the Shame Game,” New Yorker, March 26, 2015, http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/monica-lewinsky-and-the-shame-game.
CHAPTER 4: WOMEN WHO WORKED
“What was it that I did personally to make this happen?”: Marcia Clark, interview with the author, November 6, 2015.
“Nobody has a mind like Marcia”: Lorraine Adams, “The Fight of Her Life; Marcia Clark—Working Mother and O. J. Simpson’s Lead Prosecutor—Takes Her Place Among Other Maligned, Adored and Misunderstood Modern Women,” Washington Post, August 20, 1995.
“And I remember saying to people”: Marcia Clark, interview by Cynthia McFadden, 92nd Street Y Talks, May 26, 2016, http://92yondemand.org/marcia-clark-conversation-cynthia-mcfadden.
“Trial work is especially appealing”: Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), 7.
has also studied this phenomenon: Amy Cuddy, interview by Ben Lillie, “In Debates, Watch for Signs of Warmth,” TED Blog, October 1, 2012, http://blog.ted.com/in-debates-watch-for-signs-of-warmth-qa-with-amy-cuddy/.
Critics called her ruthless: Gerard Evans, “A Tigress Who Is Trying to Soften Her Claws,” Daily Mail, January 27, 1995.
During jury selection: Linda Deutsch, “Jury Prospect: O. J. Simpson is ‘A Hunk,’ Clark’s Skirts Too Short,” Associated Press, October 28, 1994.
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