Full Frontal Feminism A Young Woman?s Guide to Why Feminism Matters

by Valenti, Jessica

• ISBN13: 9781580052016
• ISBN10: 1580052010
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-17
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism, a book that embodies the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com.

This revised edition includes a new foreword by Valenti, reflecting upon what’s happened in the five years since Full Frontal Feminism was originally published. With new openers from Valenti in every chapter, the book covers a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more.

Chapters include:
You’re a Hardcore Feminist. I Swear.
Feminists Do It Better (and Other Sex Tips)
Pop Culture Gone Wild
The Blame (and Shame) Game
If These Uterine Walls Could Talk
My Big Fat Unnecessary Wedding and Other Dating Diseases
“Real” Women Have Babies
I Promise I Won’t Say “Herstory”
Boys Do Cry
Beauty Cult
Sex and the City Voters, My Ass

Valenti knows better than anyone that young women need a smart-ass book that deals with real-life issues in a style they can relate to. No rehashing the same old issues or belaboring where today's young women have gone wrong. Feminism should be something young women feel comfortable with. Full Frontal Feminism is sending out the message to readers—yeah, you're feminists, and that's actually pretty frigging cool.

Author Biography

Jessica Valenti—called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by The Guardian—is the author of four books on feminism, politics, and culture. Jessica is also the founder of Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review called “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian (UK), The American Prospect, Ms. magazine, Salon, and Bitch magazine. Jessica received her Masters degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. She lives with her husband and daughter in New York.

Table of Contents

You're a hardcore feminist, I swear	p. 5
Feminists do it better (and other sex tips)	p. 19
Pop culture gone wild	p. 41
The blame (and shame) game	p. 61
If these uterine walls could talk	p. 81
Material world	p. 111
My big fat unnecessary wedding and other dating diseases	p. 131
"Real" women have babies	p. 151
I promise I won't say "herstory"	p. 165
Boys do cry	p. 183
Beauty cult	p. 197
Sex and the City voters my ass	p. 213
A quick academic aside	p. 227
Get to it	p. 237
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