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15
“Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys,” Reuters, February 11, 2004.
16
Michael Lemonicka. “Teen Twist on Sex,”
Time
magazine, September 19, 2005.
3
Pop Culture Gone Wild
1
This term was coined by Pamela Paul in her new book by the same name. Pamela Paul.
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
(New York: Henry Holt, 2005).
2
Ariel Levy.
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
(New York: Free Press, 2006).
3
Jennifer Baumgardner. “Feminism Is a Failure, and Other Myths,” AlterNet, November 17, 2005.
4
Whitney Joiner. “Live girl-on-girl action!”
Salon.com
, June 20, 2006.
5
From a Feministing interview with Rachel Kramer Bussel.
6
R. Scott Moxley. “Slammer Time,”
OC Weekly
, October 7, 2005.
7
Erin Woods. “Sex and intoxication among women more common on spring break, according to AMA poll,” AMA press release, March 8, 2006.
8
Audio interview with Janice Crouse, senior fellow with the Beverly LaHaye Institute, Concerned Women for America. Found online at:
www.cwfa.org/articles
.
4
The Blame (and Shame) Game
1
National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Crime and Victims Statistics, 2004. Found online at:
www.rainn.org/statistics
.
2
“Women in jeans ‘cannot be raped’,” BBC News, February 11, 1999. Found online at:
www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world
.
3
Naomi Schaefer Riley. “Ladies, You Should Know Better: How feminism wages war on common sense,”
The Wall Street Journal,
April 14, 2006.
5
Sexual assault research, Amnesty International, November 2005. Found online at:
www.amnesty.org.uk/news
.
6
R. Scott Moxley. “Slammer Time,”
OC Weekly,
October 27, 2005. Found online at:
www.ocweekly.com/news
.
7
R. Scott Moxley. “Hung Jury?”
OC Weekly,
June 24, 2004. Found online at:
www.ocweekly.com/news
.
8
“Three Men Receive Six-Year Sentences in Sexual Assault Case,” NBC News, March 10, 2006. Found online at:
www.nbc4.tv/news
.
9
“Anti-rape device postponed,” SABC News, June 21, 2006. Found online at:
www.sabcnews.com/south_africa
.
10
Andrea Medea and Kathleen Thompson. “The Little Rapes, Sexual Harassment: The Link Joining Gender Stratification, Sexuality, and Women’s Economic Status” (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974).
11
Holla Back NYC. Found online at:
www.hollabacknyc.blogspot.com
.
5
If These Uterine Walls Could Talk
1
“UW Birth Control Help ‘Outrages’ Rep,”
The Capitol Times,
March 1, 2005.
2
“Pharmacist cites sin in birth control case,” Associated Press. Found online at:
www.washtimes.com/national
.
3
Dan Gransinger. “Absolving pharmacist’s conscience,” letter to the editor,
The Arizona Republic,
April 15, 2005. Found online at:
www.azcentral.com/arizonare/files/01/36/92/f013692/public/opinions
.
4
Russell Shorto. “Contra-Contraception,”
The New York Times Magazine,
May 7, 2006.
5
“Why do women have abortions?” Guttmacher Institute press release, September 6, 2005. Found online at:
www.guttmacher.org/media
.
6
“South Dakota Abortion Ban,” PBS Online News Hour. Found online at:
www.pbs.org/newshour
.
7
Bob Johnson. “Proposals would ban abortions,” Associated Press, October 21, 2006. Found online at:
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article
.
8
Ellie Lee. “The Context for the Development of ‘Post-Abortion Syndrome.’” The Prochoice Forum. Found online at:
www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/
9
Amanda Marcotte. “Exposing Anti-Choice Abortion Clinics,” Alternet, May 1, 2006.
10
Rebecca Walsh. “Senate: Incestuous dad knows best,”
The Salt Lake Tribune,
February 28, 2006.
11
HB 187: Unmarried women; prohibition on provision of certain intervening medical technology.
12
Katherine Gillespie. “Defining Reproductive Freedom for Women ‘Living Under a Microscope’: Relf v. Weinberger and the Involuntary Sterilization of Poor Women of Color,” 2000. Found online at:
www.law.georgetown.edu/glh/gillespie
.
13
Betsy Hartmann. “Cracking Open Crack,” Znet, October 22, 1999. Found online at:
www.zmag.org/ZSustainers/ZDaily
.
14
From a conversation with Wyndi Anderson, March 7, 2006.
6
Material World
1
“Kerry’s ‘Fresh Start’ Is A False Start, IWF Decries Use of Misleading Statistics on Wage Gap,” press release, October 22, 2004. Found online at:
www.iwf.org/issues
.
2
“Senate amendment would reinstate data collection for women at the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” October 27, 2005. Found online at:
www.now.org/issues/economic
.
3
Shankar Vedantam. “Women in Top Ranks Pull Up the Pay of Others,”
The Washington Post,
August 13, 2006.
4
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Found online at:
www.citizensforethics.org/activities
.
5
“’Older’ women win Virgin discrimination case,” ABC News, October 10, 2005. Found online at:
www.abc.net.au/news
.
7
“WORKPLACE BIAS?” PBS, Online News Hour, July 5, 2004. Found online at:
www.pbs.org/newshour
.
8
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Found online at:
www.eeoc.gov/types/sexual_harassment
.
9
CNN. Found online at:
www.cnn.com/2006/LAW
.
10
“Sexual Abuse by Military Recruiters, More Than 100 Women Raped Or Assaulted By Recruiters In Past Year,” August 20, 2006. Found online at:
www.cbsnews.com/stories
.
11
Feministing interview. Found online at:
www.feministing.com/archives
.
12
Ibid.
13
Lisa Belkin. “The Opt-Out Revolution,”
The New York Times Magazine,
October 26, 2003.
14
The Center for Economic Policy and Research. “Are Women Opting Out?” Found online at
www.cepr.net/publications
.
15
Ibid.
16
Louis Uchitelle and David Leonhardt. “Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job,”
The New York Times,
July 31, 2006.
17
“U.S. mothers deserve $134,121 in salary,” Reuters Study, May 3, 2006.
18
Linda Hirshman.
Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World
(New York: Viking Adult, 2006).
19
Mindy Farabee. “Linda Hirshman’s Manifesto for Women,”
LA CityBeat,
September 5, 2006.
20
The Family Initiative, Legal Momentum. Research done by the project found that some Americans are allocating as much as 50 percent of their salaries to childcare expenses.
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
.
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.
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.
9
I Promise I Won’t Say “Herstory”
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, 1992).
15
Joanne Smith talked to me about her experience at the NOW conference when I was writing an article on the event for
The Guardian
.
10
Boys Do Cry
1
Lakshmi Chaudhry. “Men Growing Up to Be Boys,”
In These Times,
March 17, 2006.
2
Rebecca Traister. “Attack of the Listless Lads,”
Salon.com
, September 20, 2005.
3
Interview with Michael Kimmel, PhD, PBS. Found online at:
www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace
.
4
Ibid.
5
Found online at
www.participate.net
.
6
“Seven Principles for Bringing Up Boys.” Found online at:
www.focusonyourchild.com/develop
.
7
“Countering Radical Feminism’s Agenda.” Found online at:
www.focusonyourchild.com
.
8
Huibin Amee Chew. “Why The War Is Sexist,” Znet, December 1, 2005. Found online at:
www.zmag.org/content
.
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