Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Sarah Palin & Judith Warner

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This morning I came across the following blog entry on Sarah Palin by NYT contributor Judith Warner. The post tells how Warner's reading of a photograph of Sarah Palin and elder statesman and Jewish cultural icon, Henry Kissinger, leads her to feel sympathy for the former. The feeling prompts her to compare Palin and Elle Woods, the ditzy, gutsy, hardw0rking, and ultimately brilliant heroine of the Legally Blond and Legally Blond II movies. Faulty as this analogy is, the post and the comments readers made on it are a very interesting read.
Warner's analysis falls somewhere between Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytical criticism and Feminism. It raises as many questions about Palin and John McCain as it does about Warner and her take on contemporary American women. Have fun with it!