Episode 8
In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today.
8.1 Stand By Your Man8.2 Handsome, clever, and rich8.3 A truth, universally acknowledged
Links
Amy Goldstein, “How the demise of her health-care plan led to the politician Clinton is today,” The Washington Post, August 25, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-health-care-missteps-a-chastened-hillary-clinton-emerged/2016/08/25/2d200cb4-64b4-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html
David A Graham, “A Short History of Hillary (Rodham) (Clinton)'s Changing Names,” The Atlantic, 30 November 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-short-history-of-hillary-rodham-clintons-name/418029/
Monica Lewinksy, “Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo,” Vanity Fair, 25 February 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo
Amanda Hess, “’Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern’: Looking back on how Maureen Dowd painted Monica Lewinsky as a crazy bimbo—and won a Pulitzer for it,” Slate, 7 May 2014, https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-returns-how-maureen-dowd-caricatured-bill-clintons-mistress-as-a-crazy-bimbo.html
Olivia B Waxmann and Merrill Fabry, “From an Anonymous Tip to an Impeachment: A Timeline of Key Moments in the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal,” Time, 4 May 2018, https://time.com/5120561/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-timeline/
Amy Davidson Sorkin, “Bill Problems: As Donald Trump attacks both Clintons, it’s like 1992 all over again,” The New Yorker, May 29, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/hillarys-bill-problem
Zoe Williams, “Was Mark Darcy based on Keir Starmer? Here’s the definitive answer,” The Guardian, 14 January 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2020/jan/13/was-mark-darcy-based-on-keir-starmer-heres-the-definitive-answer
Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lb

Clueless, 1995 Paramount PicturesPride and Prejudice, 1995 BBC StudiosBridget Jones' Diary, 2001, Universal Pictures, Little Bird, Studio Canal & Working TitleBill Clinton Excerpt, The William J. Clinton Presidential LibraryHilary Clinton Excerpts, AP Archives