Hillary Rodham Clinton's Orient: Cosmopolitan Travel and Global Feminist Subjects

The press coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton, then the First Lady of the US, on her trip with her daughter, Chelsea, to North Africa in 1999 reveals the emergence of new feminist, or postmodern, subjects that are cosmopolitan while producing & recuperating forms of past & present Orientalism. Feminist travel holds an aspect of imperialism in the name of personal or gender liberation. Clinton renegotiated her domestic troubles by use of the arena of global feminism, bringing many of her activities in parallel to that of Eleanor Roosevelt. As wife of a US president, her representation is structured by colonial discourse, but her status as mother, liberal feminist, citizen, & tourist are also sources of her influence. 6 References. L. A. Hoffman