They were “her one vanity”: Gerard Evans, “L.A CLAWS!; Glamour Girl Battle over OJ; Prosecutor Marcia Clark Who Is Involved in OJ Simpson Trial,” Daily Record, September 28, 1994.
Trial watchers were subject to: Richard Price and Haya El Nasser, “If Looks Could Convict . . . / Prosecutor Softens Up Her Style,” USA Today, October 10, 1994.
She was “an attractive lady”: Jeffrey Toobin, “True Grit,” New Yorker, January 9, 1995.
After a prospective juror: Deutsch, “Jury Prospect: O. J. Simpson Is ‘A Hunk’; Clark’s Skirts Too Short.”
“privately expressed”: Evans, “L.A CLAWS!; Glamour Girl Battle Over OJ.”
“If it’s too short”: Francine Parnes, “Court Appearances Count,” Associated Press, August 12, 1994, accessed December 11, 2017.
The country also fixated: Susan Reimer, “Marcia Clark’s Trials Have Now Begun Outside the Courtroom,” Baltimore Sun, March 5, 1995, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-03-05/features/1995064145_1_marcia-clark-prosecutor-marcia-simpson-trial.
“most memorable mole”: Daniel Margolick, “The Murder Case of a Lifetime Gets a Murder Prosecutor of Distinction,” New York Times, January 22, 1995.
“more than her share of bad hair days”: Margaret Wente, “The Adventures of Marcia Cark,” Globe and Mail (Canada), March 18, 1995.
“poodle ’do”: Teresa Wiltz, “Some Fashion Crimes in the Simpson Courtroom,” Chicago Tribune, January 26, 1995.
“a mole painted just above”: Salley McInerney, “A Haunting Halloween,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 31, 1995.
“Heather was very hot then”: Diane English, interview with the author, February 17, 2016.
Since she contractually couldn’t edit: Meredith Blake, “25 Years Later, Looking Back at ‘Murphy Brown,’” Los Angeles Times, December 23, 2013, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/23/entertainment/la-et-st-murphy-brown-20131223.
“bitchy but lovable”: Norm Schaefer, “It’s Prime Time for Women on Networks,” Chicago Sun-Times, September 11, 1994.
“finally catching on to the reality”: Schaefer, “It’s Prime Time for Women on Networks.”
In other words: “NOW Report—Women on TV,” United Press International, November 3, 2002, https://www.upi.com/Archives/2002/11/03/Feature-NOW-report-women-on-TV/1771036299600/.
After winning her fifth in 1995: “Murphy Brown Trivia,” IMDb, accessed November 4, 2017, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094514/trivia.
Since its inception, television network Fox: “Black Is Bountiful,” Newsweek, December 5, 1993.
Soon, the show beat: Greg Braxton, “‘Living Single’ Is Living Large on FOX: Despite Criticism over Male-Bashing and Sexual References, the Show Has Found an Audience,” Los Angeles Times, December 9, 1993, http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-09/en tertainment/ca-118_1_young-black-men.
“a bunch of fat, happy women”: Braxton, “‘Living Single’ Is Living Large on FOX.”
“is predicated on the presence”: K. S. Jewell, From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy (New York: Routledge, 1993).
Critics’ arguments that: Greg Braxton, “‘Living Single’ Is Living Large on FOX.”
The black women on Living Single were stereotyped: “Black Is Bountiful,” Newsweek, December 5, 1993, http://www.news week.com/black-bountiful-190658.
“quadruple the sex drive”: “Black is Bountiful,” Newsweek.
“oversexed, wha’s-up, man buffoons”: Braxton, “‘Living Single’ Is Living Large on FOX.”
Bill Cosby lambasted the show: Bill Cosby, “Someone at the Top Has to Say: ‘Enough of This,’” Newsweek, December 6, 1993.
“You’re not going to get your female show”: James Sterngold, “Strong Women In TV? They’d Sure Better Be; Progress, But Slowly, On Camera And Off,” New York Times, December 18, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/18/arts/strong-women-in-tv-they-d-sure-better-be-progress-but-slowly-on-camera-and-off.html.
While the Friends cast would: Greg Braxton, “‘Single’ Looks for a Little Help Against ‘Friends,’” Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1996, http://articles.latimes.com/1996-02-01/entertain ment/ca-30941_1_single-friends-living.
Between 1990 and 1999: Women in America, US Census Bureau.
“beribboned husband-catching primer”: Leisl Schillinger, “Desperately Seeking Simon,” The Independent, June 1, 1996, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/desperately-seeking-simon-1335028.html.
breast augmentations increased more than 700 percent: Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (New York: Free Press, 2005), 22.
“Women want to get married”: “Dateline: The Rules,” YouTube video, 7:03, posted by The Rules Book Official Channel, February 20, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xvzuQA1b4.
“forget equality”: Laurette Ziemer, “It’s the Dating Game; Play Hard to Get to Catch Your Mr. Right,” Evening Standard, May 14, 1996.
“another manifestation of the New Conservatism”: Diane White, “Man Hunting? Listen to Mom,” Boston Globe, March 9, 1995.
“Thousands of unsuspecting American males”: Ziemer, “It’s the Dating Game.”
“boot camp . . . with the drill sergeants”: “Dateline: The Rules,” YouTube video.
“If you have sex with him too soon”: Bradley Gerstman, Christopher Pizzo, and Rich Seldes, What Men Want: Three Professional Single Men Reveal to Women What It Takes to Make a Man Yours (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 18.
roused the alpha male seduction communities: Meg Barker, “Rewriting the rules: Dr. Meg Barker at TEDxBrighton,” TEDxBrighton, YouTube video, 11:41, posted by TEDx Talks, December 2, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUOQprqrxFg.
Matt Lauer interviewed: Today, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbU8kc9WFrQ.
Mars/Venus had sold six million copies: Elizabeth Gleick, “Tower of Psychobabble,” Time, June 16, 1997.
“looking peacockish”: Adams, “The Fight of Her Life.”
“She was just flying around”: David Bowman, “Profiler: John Douglas,” Salon, June 8, 1999, http://www.salon.com/1999/07/08/profiler/.
“Only Hillary Clinton has gone through more”: Reimer, “Marcia Clark’s Trials Have Now Begun Outside the Courtroom.”
“For the next month, he”: Marcia Clark interview with the author, May 2015.
“the greatest irony of all”: Morton, Monica’s Story, 81.
“She uses all of her resources”: Alan Dershowitz interview by Martin Savidge, New Day, CNN, November 17, 2013.
“is a projection of men’s preoccupation with sex”: Alessandra Stanley, “Erotomania: A Rare Disorder Runs Riot—in Men’s Minds,” New York Times, November 10, 1991.
“a flirt in lawyer’s clothing”: “Greta, You’re One Sharp Dresser,” Roanoke Times, April 8, 1996.
“I like him very much”: Sarah Paulson, interview by Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, March 10, 2016, http://www.npr.org/2016/03/10/469922588/sarah-paulson-strives-to-get-it-right-as-o-j-simpson-prosecutor.
“sexless, old and a bitch”: Ruth Richman, “Getting Real: TV Slowly Coming into Focus on Women in the Workplace,” Chicago Tribune, May 18, 1997.
“She is young, perennially confused”: Nancy Hass, “Hard Times for Strong-Minded Women,” New York Times, September 27, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/27/arts/tele vision-hard-times-for-strong-minded-women.html.
“dizzy girl-woman”: Martha M. Lauzen, “Alpha Females Still Trail Adorable Dopes,” Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1999, http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/13/entertainment/ca-43357.
“scarfing down low-fat Doritos”: Hass, “Hard Times for Strong-Minded Women.”
pioneered a certain type of third-wave feminist antihero: Emily Nussbaum, “Difficult Women,” New Yorker, July 29, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/difficult-women.
“Her indecision and compelling need to please others”: Lauzen, “Alpha Females Still Trail Adorable Dopes.”
“si
mply drop off the primetime planet,” according to Lauzen: Tom Tapp, “New Survey Says Tube Not Tops for Women,” Daily Variety, September 17, 1999.
“I plan to change it”: Orenstein, Flux, 3.
“emotional klutziness of a teenager”: Lynn Elber, “Women Power Has Become Girl Power on the Tube,” Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1998.
“regularly defeated by her neuroses”: Joanne Ostrow, “Smart Chicks: A New Kind of Heroine Emerges as TV Role Model,” Denver Post, September 30, 2004.
“wimp”: Jennifer L. Pozner, “And the Category Is . . . Simpering Wimps for $1,000,’” Sojourner, September 1998.
“frustrated by feminist arguments”: Joanne Ostrow, “Writer Kelley Presents Keen Understanding of Women,” Denver Post, January 15, 1998.
“bra burning to ohmigosh, I just wanna have sex!”: Kathleen Parker, “Feminism Isn’t Dead, Just Bored and Confused,” Orlando Sentinel, June 27, 1998.
“The show’s shoe fetish has given way to more Fendi bags”: Mimi Avins, “Heights of Fame: She May Not Be as Flashy as Her Character on ‘Sex and the City,’ but Sarah Jessica Parker Still Flirts with the Outrageous,” Los Angeles Times, October 3, 1999.
“For all the frantic coupling”: Wendy Shalit, “Lonely Liberation,” Washington Times, October 27, 1999.
CHAPTER 5: BAD MOM
“I have informed the court that I cannot be present”: Bettina Boxall, “Marcia Clark’s Husband Says She Misled Ito,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 4, 1995.
“She has no childcare problem”: “You Have to Care for the Kids,” Newsweek, April 17, 1995.
“While I commend her brilliance”: Wente, “The Adventures of Marcia Clark.”
“I have personal knowledge that on most nights”: Clarence Page, “Who’s Listening to the Kids in Custody Battles?” Chicago Tribune, March 12, 1995.
“putting a wife to work”: David Wright, “Trump in 1994: ‘Putting a Wife to Work Is a Very Dangerous Thing,’” CNN, June 2, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/trump-wife-comments-abc-interview/index.html.
“winning any Good Mother awards this year”: Margery Eagan, “Respect for Motherhood a Casualty of Our Times,” Boston Herald, March 9, 1995.
“‘Nurturing’ is not a word in her lexicon”: Wente, “The Adventures of Marcia Clark.”
A lawyer in the office: Peter S. Canellos, “Clark Case Sparks Debate on Work and Gender Roles,” Boston Globe, March 4, 1995.
a Michigan woman lost custody: “Baby Maranda Case: 1994,” Law Library, http://law.jrank.org/pages/3612/Baby-Maranda-Case-1994.html.
a child was taken away from a mother: Susan Chira, “Custody Case Stirs Debate on Bias Against Working Women,” New York Times, July 31, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/us/custody-case-stirs-debate-on-bias-against-working-women.html ?pagewanted=all.
“lingering bias that penalizes mothers”: Chira, “Custody Case Stirs Debate on Bias Against Working Women.”
“dump a dad, get a check”: Anne P. Mitchell and Wolfgang Hirczy, “Happy Fatherless Day; Are We Sending a Message That Dads Are Disposable?” Washington Post, June 18, 1995.
half of Massachusetts probate judges: Chira, “Custody Case Stirs Debate on Bias Against Working Women.”
“a little like Monticello”: Karl Vick, “Baird Gets Opportunity to Give Her Side of the Story,” St. Petersburg Times, January 20, 1993.
“servants” to maintain a household: Robert Kuttner, “. . . And Double Standards,” Washington Post, January 22, 1993.
“Widespread anger”: Victoria Benning and Bob Hohler, “Women’s Groups Look Past Baird; Some Think Excessive Response But Voice Preference for Other Candidates,” Boston Globe, January 22, 1993.
“There are . . . millions of Americans out there”: John Farrell Aloysius, “Baird Apologizes in Illegal-Alien Hiring,” Boston Globe, January 20, 1993.
“The reaction to Baird’s admission”: Benning and Hohler, “Women’s Groups Look Past Baird.”
NOW’s six hundred affiliates: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, ABC News, February 8, 1993, accessed December 19, 2017.
Ronald Brown revealed: Phil Mintz, “Trouble at Home; Brown Admits He Owed Tax for Cleaner,” Newsday, February 8, 1993.
“declined to even rebuke a male cabinet member”: Susan Page, “Clinton on Defensive; Under Attack on Cabinet Jobs,” Newsday, February 9, 1993.
When Labor Secretary: “Commerce Secretary Ron Brown Facing Questions about Domestic Help,” CBS News transcripts, CBS This Morning, February 8, 1993.
“There’s no doubt”: Howard Fineman, Mark Miller, and Joe Klein, “Hillary Clinton, First Lady: The 1993 Newsweek Cover Story,” Newsweek, April 11, 2015, http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-first-lady-newsweeks-1993-cover-story-32 1514.
“television’s first feminist and working-class-family sitcom”: Roseanne Barr, “And I Should Know,” New York, May 15, 2011, http://nymag.com/arts/tv/upfronts/2011/rose anne-barr-2011-5/.
she broke a record for appearing: David Plotz, “Domestic Goddess Dethroned: How Roseanne Lost It,” Slate, May 18, 1997, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/1997/05/domestic_goddess_dethroned.html.
“I think women should be more violent”: Corky Siemaszko, “She Has a Rosie View of Violence,” New York Daily News, July 10, 1995.
“Her raucous antics”: John J. O’Connor, “By Any Name, Roseanne Is Roseanne Is Roseanne,” New York Times, August 18, 1991, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/18/arts/tv-view-by-any-name-roseanne-is-roseanne-is-roseanne.html?pagewanted=all.
skipped work to chug: “Welfare Queens,” September 7, 2016, in Stuff Mom Never Told You, HowStuffWorks.com, podcast, 1:10:47, http://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/podcasts/welfare-queens.htm.
“narrative script”: Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., “The ‘Welfare Queen’ Experiment,” Nieman Reports, June 15, 1999, http://niemanreports.org/articles/the-welfare-queen-experiment/.
The news media in the 90s: Gilliam, “The ‘Welfare Queen’ Experiment.”
Such portrayals stoked America’s belief: Gilliam, “The ‘Welfare Queen’ Experiment.”
“reduce non marital births and encourage marriage”: Rebecca Blank, “Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States,” Journal of Economic Literature 40, no. 4 (2002).
“one of the most bitter chapters”: Blake, “25 Years Later, Looking Back at ‘Murphy Brown.’”
baseball’s World Series final: Wikipedia, s.v. “World Series television ratings,” last modified June 14, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_television_ratings.
“implying that she had been unnatural before”: Susan J. Douglas, The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), 40.
“deviant behavior”: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, “Dan Quayle Was Right,” Atlantic, April 1993.
“restoration of family values”: Kenneth D. Whitehead, “Family Values, Moral Values,” Catholic League Newsletter, July 20, 1993, http://www.catholicleague.org/family-values-moral-values/.
“devastating . . . as even Murphy Brown would admit”: Joan Beck, “A Father’s Ultimate Betrayal,” Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1995, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-03-02/news/9503020076_1_fatherless-families-fatherless-children-fatherless-america.
“a weapon in the right’s attack on single motherhood”: James Atlas, “The Counter Counterculture,” New York Times, February 12, 1995, http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/magazine/the-counter-counterculture.html.
“full-time mother of two”: Candice Bergen, “Letter to the Editor: ‘Murphy Brown’s Values,’” New York Times, June 23, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/23/opinion/l-murphy-brown-s-values-543110.html.
battling a fictional character: Greg Braxton and John M. Broder, “It’s Murphy Brown’s Turn to Lecture Vice President: Television: Show Mixes Fiction and Reality as the Candice Bergen Character Responds to Quayle on Family Values Issue,” Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1992, htt
p://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-22/news/mn-1025_1_family-values.
a two-year survey: Center for the Advancement of Women, “Is Your Mother’s Feminism Dead? New Agenda for Women Revealed in Landmark Two-Year Study; Violence and Equal Pay Top Women’s Priorities; Followed by Health Care and Child Care; Abortion Rights Low on the List,” PR Newswire, June 24, 2003.
CHAPTER 6: FIRST BITCH
“This is supposed to be the year of the women in the Senate”: George Bush, “Presidential Debate at the University of Richmond” (transcript), American Presidency Project, October 15, 1992.
“Calling 1992 the ‘year of the woman’”: Emma Green, “A Lot Has Changed in Congress Since 1992, the ‘Year of the Woman,’” Atlantic, September 26, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/a-lot-has-changed-in-congress-since-1992-the-year-of-the-woman/280046/.
“black-cent”: Tim Dowling, “The Mystery of Hillary Clinton’s Changing Accent,” The Guardian, May 1, 2007, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/02/hillaryclinton.uselections2008.
“Lady Macbeth framing”: Caroline Ervin and Cristen Conger, “Who Is Hillary Clinton?” May 18, 2016, in Stuff Mom Never Told You, HowStuffWorks.com, podcast, 1:26:27, https://www.stuff momnevertoldyou.com/podcasts/who-is-hillary-clinton.htm.
“the meek, mild, wronged wife”: Malu Halasa, “A Law Unto Herself,” The Guardian, February 19, 1992.
“knowingly lied about her husband’s uncontainable sex life”: Christopher Hitchens, “The Case Against Hillary Clinton,” Slate, January 14, 2008, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2008/01/the_case_against_hillary_clinton.html.
“the longest, slowest, most painful car crash”: Jake Tapper, “The Clinton Marriage,” Salon, August 26, 1999, http://www.salon.com/1999/08/26/clintons/.
“appearing to show contempt for women who work at home”: William Safire, “The Hillary Problem,” New York Times, March 26, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/26/opinion/essay-the-hillary-problem.html.
“everybody’s grandmother”: Donnie Radcliffe, “First Lady Gets the Third Degree; On the Stump, Barbara Warms Them Up. But George Burns Them Up,” Washington Post, February 7, 1992.
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