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Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister is a senior writer at Salon.com, where she has covered women in politics, media and entertainment since October of 2003. Prior to that, she was a reporter at the New York Observer, where she wrote about the film business. Traister has also written for Elle, the Nation, Vogue, Glamour, New York Magazine, the New York Times, Nerve, and elsewhere. Her book about women and the 2008 elections, “Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women,” will be published in September by Free Press.”

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Republicans want to build a time machine

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Nora Ephron (AP/Gino Domenico)

Nora’s brand-new world for women

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Can modern women “have it all”?

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The casts of "Sex and the City" (top) and "Girls"

True, new female friendship

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Singer Whitney Houston performs in concert at Wembley Stadium in London on May 5, 1988 (Reuters)

Didn’t she almost have it all?

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Susan G. Komen’s priceless gift

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Obama’s woman problem

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Kristin Wiig in "Bridesmaids" and Viola Davis in "The Help"

Early signs of a “Bridesmaids” bump

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Seeing “Bridesmaids” is a social responsibility

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Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and Abby Flynn (Cristin Milioti) in the February 24 episode of "30 Rock."

“30 Rock” takes on feminist hypocrisy — and its own

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Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)

This is what “pro-life” means?

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FILE - In this July 28, 2010 file photo, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Republican Jesse Kelly was still basking in the glow of his victory in an Arizona congressional primary last week when the Democratic congresswoman he's trying to unseat released a scathing TV ad branding him "a risk" who would gamble away people's retirement savings. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer. File) (Drew Angerer)

Gabrielle Giffords’ revolutionary political role

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Sarah Palin’s feminist revolution

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A jar of her magic

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A summer that sucked

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Actually, a Hillary-for-Biden switch could work

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“The Daily Show”: Now with more women

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President Obama with Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on "The View."

Obama on “The View”: The end of civilization!

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Chelsea Clinton’s big fat leaked wedding

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No more vacation: How technology is stealing our lives

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The new single womanhood

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Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee talks to supporters at an "Evening with Sarah Palin" event on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, in Rosemont, Illinois. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching) (Jim Prisching)

Sarah Palin’s grab for feminism

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FILE - In this July 26, 2004 file photo, former Vice President Al Gore kisses his wife Tipper after addressing the delegates during the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston. Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File) (AP)

The sadness of the Gore split

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Meryl Streep (Reuters)

Meryl Streep’s commencement speech: “Things are changing”

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