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as 50 percent of their salaries to childcare expenses.

21 Legal Momentum. Found online at: www.legalmomentum.org/legalmomentum/programs/familyinitiative.

22 Ibid.

23 “Congressional Child Care,” The Washington Post, Tuesday, May 16, 2006.

24 Wade Horn. “Wedded to Marriage,” National Review Online, August 9, 2005. Found online at: www.nationalreview.com/comment.

25 Legal Momentum. Found online at: www.legalmomentum.org/legalmomentum/inthecourts.

26 Marriage Savers Program. Found online at: www.marriagesavers.org.

27 Legal Momentum. Found online at: www.legalmomentum.org/legalmomentum/programs/equalityworks.

28 Michael Noer. “Don’t Marry Career Women,” Forbes, August 22, 2006.

7 My Big Fat Unnecessary Wedding and Other Dating Diseases

1 “Same-Sex Marriage: The Fight for Equality Gains Momentum,” NOW. Found online at: www.now.org/nnt.

2 “Marriage Protection Week, 2003, A Proclamation.” Found online at: www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases.

8 “Real” Women Have Babies

1 Kathryn Joyce. “Arrows for the War,” The Nation. November 27, 2006.

2 Report of the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion. Available online at: www.feministing.com/SD_abortion_taskforce_report.pdf.

3 January Payne. “Forever Pregnant,” The Washington Post, May 16, 2006.

4 Lynn Paltrow. “Punishment For Pregnant Women,” Alternet July 18, 2006.

5 Katha Pollitt. “Pregnant and Dangerous,” The Nation, April 8, 2004.

6 Found online at: www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/issues/in_the_states/.

7 Rick Montgomery. “New Wave of ‘Fetal Protectionism’ Decried,” Lexington Herald-Leader, July 10, 2006.

8 Lynn Paltrow. “Punishment For Pregnant Women,” Alternet, July 18, 2006.

9 From an email exchange with Wyndi Anderson of National Advocates for Pregnant Women.

10 Mike Stobbe. “C-Sections in U.S. Are at All-Time High,” The Associated Press, November 15, 2005.

11 Joan Ryan. “Balancing the risks in a healthy delivery,” International Awareness Caesarean Netowrk, Inc., Press Kit. November 9, 2003.

12 Anemona Hartocollis. “Home Delivery is Available,” The New York Times, June 2, 2005.

13 The Associated Press. “New Alabama law allows breast-feeding in public,” July 5, 2006.

14 The Associated Press. “30 Protest Ejection of Nursing Passenger,” ABC News, November 15, 2006.

15 Kansas Department of Health and Environment, KDHE reminds public about health benefits of breastfeeding and mother’s rights, during World Breastfeeding Week, August 2, 2006.

16 Feministing interview with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, September 09, 2006. Available online at http://feministing.com/archives/.

17 Sharon Jayson. “Women like being mothers but say they get no respect,” USA Today, May 1, 2005.

18 Found online at: http://www.momsrising.org/aboutmomsrising.

9 I Promise I Won’t Say “Herstory”

1 Found online at: www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton.

2 Sojourner Truth. “Ain’t I a Woman?” Women’s Convention, Ohio, 1851.

3 Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1963).

4 National Organization for Women’s Statement of Purpose, 1966.

5 “Feminist Majority Foundation, Ms. Magazine, and Feminist Majority Foundation Join Forces,” November 12, 2001. Found online at: www.feminist.org/news.

6 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, No. 70-18, January 22, 1973. Found online at: www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics.

7 The Civil Rights Act of 1964, 88th Congress, H. R. 7152, July 2, 1964.

8 Angela Davis is a civil rights activist and feminist; my favorite book by her is Women, Race and Class (London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 1981).

9 Susan Brownmiller. Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975).

10 Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, coined the word “womanist.”

11 Lesbian theory started to pop up in the ’60s alongside feminism.

12 “Sex wars” refers to debates within the second-wave feminist community surrounding issues of sexuality, especially pornography.

13 Feministe. Found online at: www.feministe.us/blog/archives.

14 Susan Faludi. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Anchor Books,

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