Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women by Rebecca Traister

"Superb.... Big Girls Don't Cry is much more than an assemblage of these type of 'boys on the bus' campaign anecdotes. As anyone who's followed Traister's sharp and lively essays in Salon knows, her particular 'beat' is gender. What she does here is tease out the cultural narratives that came to wield so much power during the [2008 presidential] campaign and, finally, in the voting booth.... There's so much…to be learned and argued over in Big Girls Don't Cry…. Girls, these days, can not only run for president; they can also brilliantly analyze presidential campaigns, too."—Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air