1. Hillary’s Husband Re-elected:
the Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power.
Erica Jong

2. Hillary Rodham Clinton
The First Lady of
●Arkansas from 1983 to 1992
●USA from 1993 to 2001
She was the first First Lady to hold a postgraduate degree & have a professional career right up until she lived in the White House
There were many mixed opinions about her and her intelligence, most people didn’t like it
She’ll be running for president in 2016

3. Bill Clinton The 42nd president of USA 3rd youngest president
Took office at the end of the Cold War & was the first president of the baby boomer generation
A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic post-World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964

4. Hillary and Bill Clinton
The two married 5 years after having first met.
They’re seen as one of the most political couples
Bill said during his campaign that if they elected him, they’d get ‘two for the price of one’ and get 2 presidents

5. Our culture treats political women differently to political men.
The majority of people in the USA didn’t like Hillary’s intelligence
Most men and also women are often against women being political
Many political women were given nicknamed ‘Iron Lady’, most famously for Margaret Thatcher
For Hillary, she was frequently compared to Lady Macbeth

6. First Ladies of USA Michelle Obama Laura Bush Barbara Bush
Hillary was one of the most different First Ladies.
Michelle Obama
Was concerned military and working families, however the media focuses on her fashion sense
Laura Bush
Was concerned with education and women’s health
Barbara Bush
Was concerned with family literacy

7. Re-casting Task
You have been asked to write an entry in Wikipedia about Hillary and Bill Clinton’s marriage.
Use the information from all of Erica Jong’s article, Hillary’s Husband Re-elected:
the Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power.
You should adapt the source material, using your own words as far as possible but not using direct quotations from Jong’s article. The text of your entry should be approximately words in length.
In your adaption you should:
Use language appropriately to address purpose and audience
Write accurately and coherently, applying relevant ideas and concepts
(25 marks)