 Big Girls Don 't Cry : The Election that Changed Everything for American Women is a 2010 non @-@ fiction book written by American journalist Rebecca Traister and published by Free Press . The book discusses women 's contributions to and experiences of the 2008 United States presidential election . Traister places particular focus on four main political figures — Hillary Clinton , Sarah Palin , Michelle Obama , and Nancy Pelosi — and how they impacted the election .
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Rebecca Traister is an American journalist who writes about women, culture, and politics. She is a contributing editor at New York magazine, where