"…the nation's feminists are divided about the ""work"" Michelle Obama has done, and the work they'd like to see her do. This split has bitter historic roots. It surfaced during the suffrage movement, when white women suggested their votes could counter those of ""the darker races,"" and again in the 1970s, when black feminists broke away over the white middle-class focus of ""women's lib."" Now, with an African American woman in the White House [for another four years], these differences have rushed back to the fore.   more."
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