Mickey McElya
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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And it is these beautiful, young, white women that best identify not so much the subject of the United States, but the objects to be fought over, judged, discriminated.
To be inspired by, but less so subjects of their own lives in those moments.
And that becomes a real struggle, I think, within the pageant, particularly as at the same time the scholarship feature becomes a big part of it.
Right, because a big part of it is the women are receiving scholarships.
It's for scholarship money, the winner.
1968 in particular, it's one of the most documented years in American history, but that's one of the things I find really interesting about your book because it's so comprehensive that, I mean, you're really telling the foundational story of the women's liberation movement, second wave feminism, but you're telling us
You're taking us from the past to the moment to then the future.
And I was very curious about why you felt like you had to do that versus focusing in on the meaning of that particular time period.
Did you feel like you couldn't really tell that story without telling everything else?
Absolutely.
There's so much there and there are so many people there because also you tell someone I'm working on 1968 and I think probably one of their first responses is really?
Do we really need more?
And what I hope people understand from this book is that there is so much more history there that needs to be told and that it's history that will transform how we think of the period.
And so what I've done –
by putting these three pieces together, is just take in that light that we shine on 68, that we shine on the 68 presidential race, right?
Because this is very much a political history.
And that if you just shift that beam just a little bit, there is this
cast of women from various political positions, from various places in the country, who have central roles in making this moment, who so often aren't included because of things like, here's the standard chronology, there was a burnt bra, aren't these pictures great?
You know, hilarity, a Miss America pageant, but it really does a disservice to
Here's the thing about that protest that, among other things, has real teeth.
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