Index

Abortion, 12, 26, 54, 75, 88–89, 95–96, 107–109, 118, 136–138, 142–143, 162–168

Adam’s Rib, 70–71

Against Me!, 58–59

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 76–77

All American Girl, 18–19

All Hail the Queen, 52–53

Alvarez, Julia, 125–126

Angelou, Maya, 111–113

Arnaz, Desi, 6–7

Arthur, Bea, 11–12

Arzner, Dorothy, 69

Asner, Ed, 10–11

Atwood, Margaret, 122–123

The Awakening, 97–98

Bad Feminist, 127–128

Ball, Lucille, 6–7

Barr, Roseanne, 14–15

Beavers, Louise, 4

Bechdel, Alison, 157–158

The Bell Jar, 110–111

Berg, Gertrude, 1–3

Bergen, Candice, 16–17

Bertinelli, Valerie, 12–13

The Beulah Show, 4

Bikini Kill, 55–56

Birth control, 10, 11, 13, 14–15, 47, 131–133, 141, 161–165

Bitch Media, 170–171

The Bluest Eye, 113–114

Brown, Rita Mae, 114–116

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 100–101

Burstyn, Ellen, 76–77

Carroll, Diahann, 9–10

Chisholm, Shirley, 138–139

Cho, Margaret, 18–19

Chopin, Kate, 97–99

Christopher Strong, 69–70

Citizen: An American Lyric, 129–130

Civil Rights Movement, 4–5, 44, 79, 115, 125, 134, 139

Coal Miner’s Daughter, 46

Colbert, Claudette, 73–74

The Color Purple, 80–81, 119–120

Coppola, Francis Ford, 74–75

Cox, Laverne, 27–28

Crawford, Joan, 71–72

Dash, Julie, 82–84

Daughters of the Dust, 82–84

Davis, Angela, 52, 148–149

Davis, Clive, 45

Davis, Geena, 84–86

Davis, Viola, 30–31

Declaration of Sentiments, xi

DeGeneres, Ellen, 20–21

Desilu Productions, 6–7

Dietrich, Marlene, 67–68

DiFranco, Ani, 54–55

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974–1977, 116–117

Ellen, 20–21

English, Diane, 16–17

Erdrich, Louise, 126–127

Family planning, 131–133

The Feminine Mystique, xi, 136–138

Feminist Frequency, 173–175

Feminist Majority Foundation, 167–168

Feminist.com, 168–169

Feministing.com, 171–172

The Feminist Wire, 177–178

Ferraro, Geraldine, 144–145

Fey, Tina 21–22

Field, Sally, 79–80

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, 117–118

Ford, Lita, 51–52

Foxy Brown, 77–78

Franklin, Aretha, 44–46

Franklin, Bonnie, 12–13

Friedan, Betty, xi, 136–137

Gay, Roxane, 127–128

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 140–142

Goldberg, Whoopi, 80–81

The Goldbergs, 1–3

Goodman, John, 14–15

Grace, Laura Jane, 58–59

Grandma, 95–96

Grier, Pam, 21–22, 77–78

Hamer, Fannie Lou, 134–135

The Handmaid’s Tale, 122–123

Hansberry, Lorraine, 108–109

Harper, Valerie, 10–11

Hawley, Nancy Miriam, 164–165

Haze, Angel, 61–62

The Hazel Scott Show, 3

Hepburn, Katharine, 69–72

Holiday, Billie, 40–41

“Hound Dog,” 41–42

The House of Mirth, 98–99

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, 125–126

How to Get Away with Murder, 30–31

Huerta, Dolores, 139–140

Hurston, Zora Neale, 104–106

“I Am Woman,” 48–49

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 111–113

I Love Lucy, 6–7

If These Walls Could Talk, 88–89

Imitation of Life, 73–74

Inside Amy Schumer, 28–29

Iron Jawed Angels, 92–93

Jane the Virgin, 31–32

Jett, Joan, 51–52

Jezebel, 172–173

Johnny Guitar, 71–72

The Joy Luck Club, 87–88

Julia, 9

Kanter, Hal, 9–10

King, Billie Jean, 146–147

King, Carole, 49–50

“Ladies First,” 52–53

LaDuke, Winona, 152–153

Lavender Menace, 138

Leachman, Cloris, 10–11

A League of Their Own, 85–86

Lilith Fair, 63–64

Living Single, 53

Loeb, Philip, 2

Lorde, Audre, 120–121

The L Word, 21–22

Lynn, Loretta, 46–47

Madonna, 57, 85–86

Marshall, Penny, 85–86

The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 10–11

Maude, 11–12

McDaniel, Hattie, 4–5

McLachlan, Sarah, 63–64

Metalious, Grace, 107–108

Michaels, Lorne, 21–22, 24–25

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, 63

Mildred Pierce, 71, 73

Minstrelsy, 5

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, 178–179

Missy Elliott, 57–58, 63

Monáe, Janelle, 60–61

Morocco, 67–68

Morrison, Toni, 113–114

Ms. Magazine, 142–143, 166–167

Murphy Brown, 16–17

National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), 136–138, 163–164

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 4, 138, 177

Naylor, Gloria, 17–18

19th Amendment, xi, 92–93

Norma Rae, 79–80

O’Donnell, Rosie, 85–86

Odetta, 42–43

One Day at a Time, 12–13

Orange Is the New Black, 27–28

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 123–125

Orlando, 101–102

Our Bodies Ourselves, 164–165

Owens, Dana, 37–38, 52–53, 90–91

Parks and Recreation, 24–25

Persepolis, 93–94

Peyton Place, 107–108

Phillips, Mackenzie, 12–13

“The Pill,” 47

Planned Parenthood, 63, 131–133, 161–163

Plath, Sylvia, 110–111

Poehler, Amy, 24–25

Pussy Riot, 64–65

Quayle, Dan, 16–17

Queen Latifah, 37–38, 52–53, 90–91

The Rain People, 74–75

Rainey, Gertrude “Ma,” 35–36

A Raisin in the Sun, 108–109

Rankine, Claudia, 129–130

Real Women Have Curves, 91–92

Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television, 2, 4

Reddy, Helen, 48–49

“R.E.S.P.E.C.T.,” 44–45

Rhimes, Shonda, 26–27, 31

Rich, Adrienne, 116–117

Ride, Sally, 149–150

Righteous Babe Records, 54–55

Riot Grrrl, 55–56

Rodriguez, Gina, 31–32

Roe v. Wade, 12, 88–89, 95–96, 162–163

“A Room of One’s Own,” 103–104

Roseanne, 14–15

Rosie the Riveter, 86, 145–146

The Round House, 126–127

Rubyfruit Jungle, 114–116

Runaways, 51–52

Sanger, Margaret, 131–133, 161–163

Sarandon, Susan, 84–85

Satrapi, Marjane, 93–94

Saturday Night Live, 22

Scandal, 25–26

Schumer, Amy, 28–29

Scorsese, Martin, 76–77

Scott, Hazel, 3

Second-wave feminism, xi, 8, 11, 56, 79, 98, 106, 116, 118, 125, 134, 136

The Secret Garden, 100–101

Set It Off, 90–91

Shange, Ntozake, 117–118

ShondaLand Productions, 30–31

Shriver, Maria, 175–176

The Shriver Report, 175–176

Smith, Bessie, 36–38, 40, 42

Smith, Betty, 106–107

Soloway, Jill, 33–34

Sotomayor, Sonia, 150–152

Spielberg, Steven, 80–81

Steinem, Gloria, 142–143

“Strange Fruit,” 40

Supa Dupa Fly, 57–58

Swank, Hilary, 92–93

Tambor, Jeffrey, 33–34

Tan, Amy, 87–88

Tapestry, 50

Television, 1–34

Tharpe, Sister Rosetta, 38–40

That Girl, 7–8

Their Eyes Were Watching God, 104–106

Thelma and Louise, 84–85

Third-wave feminism, 54

30 Rock, 22–23

Thomas, Helen, 135–136

Thomas, Marlo, 7–8

Thornton, Willie Mae “Big Mama,” 41–42

Tomlin, Lily, 95–96

Transgender, 23, 27, 33, 58–59, 115, 171

Transgender Dysphoria Blues, 59

Transparent, 33–34

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 106–107

Turner, Lana, 73–74

Unbought and Unbossed, 138–139

United States v. Windsor, 159–160

Walker, Alice, 80–81, 119–120

Washington, Kerry, 25–26

Waters, Ethel, 4

Wharton, Edith, 98–99

Williams, Serena, 156–157

Williams, Venus, 156–157

Winfrey, Oprah, 17–18, 80–81

Winterson, Jeanette, 123–125

The Women of Brewster Place, 17–18

Women’s Liberation Movement, xi, 8, 11, 13, 77, 136–137, 154–155

Women’s rights, xi, 35

Woolf, Virginia, 101–104

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, 120–121

Zines, 55–56