Full Frontal Feminism_ A Young Women's Guide to Why Feminism Matters - Jessica Valenti [80]
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Human Rights Watch
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The White House Project
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Women’s Voices. Women Vote.
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Magazines
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off our backs
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Books
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image edited by Ophira Edut
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women’s Rights in America by Debran Rowland
The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order edited by Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality by Deborah L. Tolman
FAT!SO? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for your Size! by Marilyn Wann
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin
The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
A Girl’s Guide to Taking over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution by Tristan Taormino
Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a Smartmouth Goddess by Susan Jane Gilman
Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation edited by Barbara Findlen
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner
Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self edited by Sara Shandler
Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum
Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America by Rebecca Carroll
Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism edited by Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake
To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism edited by Rebecca Walker
We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists edited by Melody Berger
Woman: An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier
Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American edited by Vickie Nam
Hotlines
National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-SAFE (799-7233)
National Hopeline Network: (800) SUICIDE (784-2433)
National STD/HIV Hotline: (800) 227-8922
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: (800) 656-HOPE (656-4673)
Youth Crisis Hotline: (800) HIT-HOME (448-4663)
NOTES
1 You’re a Hardcore Feminist. I Swear.
1 Ginia Bellafante. “Is Feminism Dead?” Time magazine, June 29, 1998.
2 Lawrence Summers is the former president of Harvard University. At a conference about women and minorities in science and engineering while he was still president, Summers theorized that one of the reasons for the lower number of women in the math and science fields was that women don’t have the same “natural” or “innate” ability as men.
3 Christine John, a first-year teacher at the Village Adventist Elementary School in Berrien Springs, Michigan, was placed on administrative leave for getting pregnant out of wedlock in 2005. Also in 2005, Michelle McCusker, an unmarried teacher at St. Rose of Lima School in Queens, New York, was fired after she told school officials she was pregnant.
4 Monique Stuart. “Slutty Feminism,” The Washington Times, January 1, 2006.
5 I’ll provide the following articles just to give you a sampling of what’s out there:
Phyllis Schlafly. “Feminist Dream Becomes Nightmare,