Click When We Knew We Were Feminists

by Sullivan, J. Courtney; Martin, Courtney E.

• ISBN13: 9781580052856
• ISBN10: 1580052851
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-27
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women—including Jessica Valenti, Amy Richards, Shelby Knox, Winter Miller, and Jennifer Baumgardner—who share stories about how that moment took shape for them. 

Sometimes emotional, sometimes hilarious, this collection gives young women who already identify with the feminist movement the opportunity to be heard—and it welcomes into the fold those new to the still-developing story of feminism.

Author Biography

Courtney E. Martin is the author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters and co-author of The Naked Truth. J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the best-selling novel Commencement.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 13
I'm Gonna Wash that King Right out of my Hair	p. 19
One is Silver and the other's Gold	p. 25
Seventeen Years of Ridicule: A Young Feminist's Polemic	p. 31
Cross-Stitch and Soap Operas following Football	p. 37
Killing in the Name of	p. 43
Empowerment in Soft Focus: Growing up Female with ADHD	p. 51
You are What you Wear	p. 59
Feminism, Warts and all	p. 67
God, Sex, and Pythagoras	p. 73
The Right Pitch	p. 77
Born-Again Feminist	p. 83
Not my Mother's Hose	p. 89
I was not Aborted and Further Miscellanea	p. 95
The Women's Center	p. 105
I was a Secret Rich Kid: A Tale of Class Unconsciousness	p. 113
Finding and Making the Reasons	p. 121
I married a war Correspondent	p. 129
Righteous Little Beaver	p. 137
The Feminist Evolution of an Artist, Survivor, Conjurer from the Tropics	p. 145
"What's the Female Version of a Hustler?": Womanist Training for a Bronx Nerd	p. 155
You can't Rape a whore: A Love Story	p. 161
Anita and me	p. 169
My Number one must-have	p. 175
The Brown Girl's Guide to Labels	p. 181
Word and Deed	p. 191
On Reading Katie Roiphe	p. 199
An Engineering Approach to Feminism	p. 207
I Was an Obnoxious Teenage Feminist	p. 215
Pillow Dancing and Other Failed Hetero Experiments	p. 219
Contributors	p. 227
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