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, 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
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
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
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
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
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, 63
Minstrelsy, 5
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, 178–179
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
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
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, 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
Washington, Kerry, 25–26
Waters, Ethel, 4
Wharton, Edith, 98–99
Williams, Serena, 156–157
Williams, Venus, 156–157
Winterson, Jeanette, 123–125
The Women of Brewster Place, 17–18
Women’s Liberation Movement, xi, 8, 11, 13, 77, 136–137, 154–155
Woolf, Virginia, 101–104
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, 120–121
Zines, 55–56