| Description |
237 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
I'm gonna wash that king right out of my hair / Elisa Albert -- One is silver and the other's gold / Jennifer Baumgardner -- Seventeen years of ridicule : a young feminist's polemic / Nellie Beckett -- Cross-stitch and soap operas following football / Jordan Berg Powers -- Killing in the name of / Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne -- Empowerment in soft focus : growing up female with ADHD / Li Sydney Cornfeld -- You are what you wear / Anitra Cottledge -- Feminism, warts and all / Marni Grossman -- God, sex, and Pythagoras / Shelby Knox -- Right pitch / Colleen Lutz Clemens -- Born-again feminist / Jillian Mackenzie -- Not my mother's hose / Courtney E. Martin -- I was not aborted and further miscellanea / Winter Miller -- Women's center / Olessa Pindak -- I was a secret rich kid : a tale of class unconsciousness / Karen Pittelman -- Finding and making the reasons / Sophie Pollitt-Cohen -- I married a war correspondent / Alissa Quart -- Righteous little beaver / Amy Richards -- Feminist evolution of an artist, survivor, conjurer from the tropics / Marta L. Sanchez -- "What's the female version of a hustler?" : womanist training for a Bronx nerd / Joshunda Sanders -- You can't rape a whore : a love story / Rachel Shukert -- Anita and me / Deborah Siegel -- My number one must-have / Amy Spalding -- Brown girl's guide to labels / Mathangi Subramanian -- Word and deed / J. Courtney Sullivan -- On reading Katie Roiphe / Rebecca Traister -- An engineering approach to feminism / Janet Tsai -- I was an obnoxious teenage feminist / Jessica Valenti -- Pillow dancing and other failed hetero experiments / Miriam Zoila Pérez. |
| Summary |
Collects particular moments in the authors' lives when they realized they were feminists. |
| Subject |
Feminists -- Biography.
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Feminists -- Biography. |
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Biography. |
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Feminists. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Martin, Courtney E.
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Sullivan, J. Courtney.
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| ISBN |
9781580052856 paperback |
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1580052851 paperback |
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