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Authenticity and Emotion: Hillary Rodham Clinton's Dual Constraints
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2018
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After the publication of What Happened, much attention was directed toward analyzing and commenting on a section of Hillary Rodham Clinton's book that detailed her thinking in a split-second situation during one of the presidential debates with Donald Trump. Clinton explains that during the second debate, which occurred just days after the release of the famous Access Hollywood tape in which Trump “bragged about groping women” (Clinton 2017, 136), Trump was more or less following her around the small stage, “staring at [her], making faces” (136). She notes that it was “incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck” (136). But she also considers her response to Trump's physically threatening demeanor during the debate and whether she responded appropriately or “correctly.” Clinton kept her cool—she kept going in the face of what she describes as a physically menacing situation. She refused to be “rattled” by Trump's proximate presence or by the individuals he invited to sit in the audience to intimidate her.
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- Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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- Politics & Gender , Volume 14 , Special Issue 1: Gender and Conservatism , March 2018 , pp. 111 - 115
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- Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2018
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