What’s at stake in Carroll’s case is a question of equal claims to voice and narrative power, of citizenship under the law. [She] “is standing up and saying, ‘I claim my citizenship,’” said Linda Hirshman, the author of Reckoning, which traces the movement against sexual harassment. “We will see whether the state will respond by publicly recognizing that a common citizen, female, has the exact same citizenship as a former president of the United States.”
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