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A woman’s appearance has always been inseparable from her message in politics. So what does this latest, conspicuous shift signal? In this episode, we’re taking a question the New Right is obsessed with—what is a woman?—and answering it by analyzing the aesthetic transformations of the women they tolerate becoming prominent and visible within their coalition.
References in This Episode
“Fighting for the Vote with Cartoons” by Anna Diamond for The New York Times, which adds some fun historical imagery to our nation’s cherished tradition of panicking about women having the gall to leave their homes and calling the ones who do “ugly and masculine”
“Why do all the women on Fox News look and dress alike? Republicans prefer blondes” from the “Ask Hadley” column in The Guardian
“The Politics of Blondness, From Aphrodite to Ivanka” by Amy Larocca for The Cut
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