“I just think people are made uncomfortable by ambitious women.” – Tom Perrotta, author of Election, the book that inspired the film The 1999 film Election features Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), a power-hungry young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), an emasculated male high school teacher … Continue reading Women in Politics Week: ‘Election’: Female Power and the Failure of Desperate Masculinity