Tracking the Hillary Clinton 'Mothers and Daughters' Debate

I love being the proverbial fly on the wall when smart women take up a topic that the media has built up to be The Big Issue. Come along with me as we buzz from opinion to opinion and follow one of these debates online.

Here's the question: Is Hillary Clinton's campaign driviing a wedge between mothers and daughters - older women and younger women - who view women's issues and women's rights through different lenses?

• Linda Hirshman - in a commentary at Slate.com - builds an argument around a quote by another author and writes with both barrels blazing.

• Courtney Martin, the aforementioned author, responds at American Prospect, explaining how the quote was taken out of context, and what her true intent was.
• Amy Tiemann, who was also quoted, is a mother's leadership expert and blogger at MojoMom.com. Her quote was taken from a Womens Enews article, and here's the original piece.

• Deborah Dickerson throws in her two cents' over at Mother Jones.

• And finally, Deborah Siegel, author of what Hirshman calls "a very important book, Sisterhood Interrupted, about the fractious relationships between the '60s feminists and their filial successors," steps in a la Rodney King to ask why we can't all just get along.

Very good advice, Deborah. As she says on her blog Girl With Pen, "Let's move on. A Democrat in 2008. Deal?"