'Donald Trump and American Women: From Hillary Clinton's What Happened? to Trump's Victory in 2024
This paper will discuss two political objects: Hillary Clinton's post-mortem book, What Happened (2017), assessing how much emphasis she puts on gender issues when trying to explain her presidential defeat, and showing how the very same gender issues were used by Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign to woo female voters, especially during the four days of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July 2024.
A graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure – Fontenay St Cloud, Françoise Coste is a Professor of American History at the University of Toulouse. She works on the history of the conservative movement in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. She has devoted many articles and book chapters to the history of women’s rights in the US and the intellectual history of American conservatism. Her biography of Ronald Reagan (Reagan, Editions Perrin) received the Award for best political biography of the year in France in 2015. She is currently working on a history of the Republican Party since 1945, to be published by Humensis.
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