sex.feminism.empowerment.life: September 2010

"When somebody tells me I have to lose weight it makes me want to . . . Eat"
-Holly Madison

Not the most predictable source of quote of the day material, but totally spot on.

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Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work is Done by Susan J. Douglas
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex by Cristina Page
Female Chauvanist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman
Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work by Joni B. Cole and B.K. Rakhra
Slut! Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Feminism is for Everyone: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Real Live Nude Girl by Carol Queen
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire edited by Merri Lisa Johnson
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
Down By the River by Edna O'Brian
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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