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Who is This?
Jessica Valenti (born November 1, 1978) is a prominent blogger and feminist writer from New York, and is presently the Executive Editor of Feministing.com. Jessica graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1996, received her master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and has worked for NARAL Pro Choice America, Planned Parenthood, and Ms. magazine. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Bitch, Guernica Magazine, and Alternet.
We have no problem condemning atrocities done to women abroad, yet too many of us in the United States ignore the oppression on our doorstep. We're suffering under the mass delusion that women in America have achieved equality.
And why not -- it's a ...
A lap dancer in a club in Cork, Ireland. Photograph: Sean Smith
In her 1998 book, The New Feminism, Natasha Walter argued that the feminist adage the "personal is political" needed to ditch the "personal" and focus on broader political goals. Feminists ...
She's ba-ack! Sarah Palin has been making the rounds promoting her new memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, and reminding Americans why we didn't vote for her in the first place. Whether on Oprah, telling the world that her epically bad interview ...
From JESSICA VALENTI,
Comment Is Free,
19 Nov 2009
After an ongoing boycott of Nestlé for marketing baby milk formula as a substitute for breastfeeding in developing countries, the company did what can best be described as e-damage control – it invited 20 influential "mom and dad" bloggers to an ...
Honest education and confidential services are the best way to undo the damage done by abstinence-only programmes
It should come as no surprise that this is happening, really – after all, teenagers are just going by the book. A 2002 study found that ...
From JESSICA VALENTI,
Comment Is Free,
30 Jul 2009
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From JESSICA VALENTI,
In These Times,
6 Mar 2009
First of all, I just want to say thanks to Bitch PhD for hosting ... this site has been a favorite for a long time, so I'm thrilled to be able to write here!
I'm going to share a little bit of my essay below - as you will probably be able to tell, it ...
From JESSICA VALENTI,
Bitch. Ph.D.,
16 Feb 2009
The first time I went into a feminist bookshop, I was completely overwhelmed. It wasn't just the sheer number of woman-friendly books and magazines – though that in itself was amazing. It was the sense of community: the reading groups, the board where ...
Jessica Valenti: Female comedians are rare - feminist ones even rarer. But all that changed with the US ...
The New York Post calls her "a feminist dream". National Public Radio asks if she's the "new face of feminism". And the Wall Street Journal, ever subtle, calls it "Sarah Palin Feminism". I call it well-spun garbage. (Yes, I'd even call it a pig in ...
From JESSICA VALENTI,
Comment Is Free,
11 Sep 2008
