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Abbeville, Alabama, 92
ABC News, 176
Abedin, Huma, 176
Abolition movement, 116–119, 210, 237, 247
Abortion, xiv, xxvi, 3, 7, 18, 29, 35, 57, 95, 104, 110, 114, 150, 203, 211–212
Abrams, Stacey, 235
Abzug, Bella, 111
Access Hollywood tape, 22, 137
Adams, John, 148
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 11, 69
Affirmative action, 203
Affordable Care Act, 35, 203, 228
Ailes, Roger, 38, 141, 173–174, 201
Alabama special election (2017), 78–79, 160, 161, 163, 223
Alderman, Naomi, 214
Alexander, Sadie, 125
Alexander the Great, xix
Allen, Woody, 192
Alpha Kappa Alpha, 49
Alter, Charlotte, 228
Amanpour, Christine, 219
American AntiSlavery Society, 116
American Communist Labor Party, 84
American Equal Rights Association, 119
American Revolution, xxi
Anger and Forgiveness (Nussbaum), xxii, xxiii
Anthony, Susan B., xxii, 52, 79, 86, 94, 118–120, 132–133, 153, 154, 210, 237
Apartheid, 153
Appropriations Committee, 46–47
Arpaio, Joe, 59
Ashford, Brad, 217
Associated Press, 196
At the Dark End of the Street (McGuire), 92
Atwood, Margaret, 35
Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), 46–49, 249
Axelrod, David, 31
Baby Boom (film), 3
Backlash (Faludi), 3
#balancetonporc (expose your pig), 185
Baldasaro, Al, 17
Baldwin, James, 52
Banagán, Nanette, 33
#banmen, 10
Bannon, Steve, 39
Barnes, Paulette, 191
Barnicle, Mike, 194
Barra, Mary, 174
Barrett, Lisa Feldman, 65
Bassett, Angela, 77
Beard, Mary, 52
Bee, Samantha, 103–105, 147, 159, 198
Beinart, Peter, 53
Bennett, Ashley, 204
Bennett, James Gordon Sr., 150
Besh, John, 140
Bethel AME Church, Detroit, 85
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 49
Beyoncé, 11–12, 20–21, 28, 143, 204
Black Lives Matter, 197, 235, 237
#BlackLivesMatter, 8, 9, 127, 129
Black power movement, 69, 92, 115
Black welfare queen, 3
Black Women in Politics, 216
TheBlaze, 53
Blitt, Barry, 70
Block, Kitty, 219
Bloor, Ella Reeve (Mother Bloor), 84–85
Booth, Heather, 211–212
Born in Flames (film), 110
Boston, Massachusetts, 129
Boston Tea Party, 6
Bosworth, Rita, 212
Bradley, Tom, 4
Brank (scold’s bridle/witch’s bridle), 51, 62
Briskman, Juli, 54
Broad City (television show), 11
Brokaw, Tom, 147, 185, 193–194, 198
Brown, Michael, 9
Brzezinski, Mika, 32, 55, 106, 185
Buress, Hannibal, 103
Burke, Tarana, xviii, 38, 141, 166, 191, 202–203, 239
Burnham, Cherish, 230
Burns, Lucy, 210
Bush, George H. W., 97
Bush, George W., 5
Butcher, Amy, 232
Buzzfeed, 73
Byrd, Jessica, 212
Cain, Emily, 225
Campion, Jane, 137
Cannes Film Festival (2018), 213
Cantor, Eric, 74
Caraway, Hattie Wyatt, 216
Carlson, Tucker, 53
Carmichael, Stokely, 69
Carmon, Irin, 159, 186, 188–189
Castile, Philando, 211
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 210
Central Park Five, 15
Chadwick, Sarah, xxxi
Charlottesville, Virginia, 35, 129, 218
Cherry, Myisha, xxiii
Chicago Tribune, 52
Chideya, Farai, 171
Childcare, 3, 29, 64, 203, 213
Chisholm, Shirley, xiv, xv, xvii, 17, 50, 51, 94–95, 98, 202, 215, 249
Christie, Chris, 16
Civil Rights Act, 247
Title VII of, 168
Civil rights movement, 2, 87, 88, 91, 93, 116, 124, 211, 237
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 59–60, 211
Cliffe, Nicole, 142–143
scandal in office, 161–162, 164, 170
welfare reform and, 175
Clinton, Hillary, xvii, xxvi, 12, 106, 175, 227
defense of husband by, 161, 170
parody of, 101–102
as secretary of state, 78
2008 campaign and, 62, 175, 242, 249
2016 campaign and, xxvii, xxviii, 14–19, 21, 24–28, 52, 63–67, 76, 80–81, 101, 122–124, 161, 174, 175, 190, 205
CNN (Cable News Network), 63, 72, 106
Columbia law school, 110
Confederate flag and statues, 9
Congressional Black Caucus, 51, 95
Congressional election (1992), 85–86
Constitution of the United States
Fifteenth Amendment to, 119–120
Nineteenth Amendment to, xx, 120, 133, 150, 210, 247
Sixteenth Amendment to, 120
Conway, Kellyanne, 30–31
Cool Girl, 184
Coontz, Stephanie, 152
Cooper, Anderson, 24
Cooperative Congressional Election study (2016), 123
Cosby, Bill, 3, 38, 103, 140, 141, 175, 192, 201
Craig, Jenny, 41
Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, 71, 129, 191
Crooks, Rachel, 221
Crowley, Joe, 217
Cruz, Carmen Yulín, 36
Cuomo, Andrew, 217
Cuomo, Chris, 72
Curry, Ann, 174
Cursing, 106–109
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), 59
Daily Beast, 164
Daily Oneida Whig, 150
Damon, Matt, 194
DauSchmidt, Kenneth, 227
Davis, Viola, 78
Dawald, Darla, 7
Dear, Robert Lewis, 196
Debs, Eugene V., 86
Declaration of Independence, 148, 149
Declaration of Sentiments, 83, 117, 148–150, 152
DeGette, Diana, 127
DeLarverie, Stormé, 89–90
Dellums, Ron, 51
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 224
Democratic National Convention
1964, xxiv
Demosthenes, 83
Deneuve, Catherine, 185
Denvir, Daniel, 18
DeVos, Betsy, 233
Dickstein, Lore, 155
Dietland (television show), 214
Diller, Barry, 194
Dittmar, Kelly, 216
Dixie Chicks, 54
Dixon, Alan, 215
Dock, Lavinia, 238–239
Domínguez, Jorge, 173
Donegan, Moira, 183
Douglass, Frederick, 116–118, 132–133
Dreamers, 235
Duckworth, Tammy, 36
Duke, Elaine, 36
Dunn, Nora, 97–98
Dworkin, Andrea, xxv, 153–156, 189, 248
Eagleton, Thomas, xv
Eastman, Kara, 217
Education, 210–211
Elle magazine, 39
Eloquent Rage (Cooper), 71
Elzie, Johnetta, 9
Emancipation of slaves, 117–118
Emerge America, 227
EMILY’s List, 31, 37, 223–225, 227
Ensler, Eve, 143
Enten, Harry, 124
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 4
Equal Pay Act, 109
Equal Rights Amendment, xiv, 2, 100, 123, 151
Facebook, xxvii, 8, 24, 28, 113, 142, 231, 233, 238
Facial expressions, 65
Family and Medical Leave Act, 161
Family planning programs, 7
Farenthold, Blake, 170
Farm workers, 84–85
Farrakhan, Louis, 70
Farrow, Ronan, 140
Fatal Attraction (film), 3
Faust, Drew, 188
Fazlalizadeh, Tatyana, 214
Fear of Flying (Jong), 211
Federal Election Commission, 213
Feingold, Russ, 19
Feinstein, Dianne, 216
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 125–126, 150, 235
Feminist movement, xvi, xxv, xxx, 2, 3, 9–13, 29, 30, 95, 110, 115, 129, 143, 150–155, 159, 187, 231, 234–235
Feministing, 10
Ferguson, Missouri, 9
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, 119n120
Firestone, Shulamith, 29
Flanagan, Caitlin, 40, 181, 200
Flint, Michigan, 105
Flynn, Gillian, 184
Flynn, Michael, 16
Food stamps, 7
For a Bad Time, Call podcast, 79
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Shange), 211
Ford, Matt, 32–33
Fornet, Ali, 72
Fox and Friends, 72
Fox News, 70, 74, 147, 173–174
Foy, Jennifer Carroll, 225
Frank, Thomas, 64
Franken, Al, 143, 160–164, 170, 220
Franklin, Benjamin, 115
Franks, Trent, 221
French Revolution, xix, 136–137
Freud, Sigmund, 93
Friedan, Betty, xiv, 111, 125–126, 150, 235
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (television show), 104
Gadsby, Hannah, 214
Game Change (Halperin), 176
Gamergate, 221
Garber, Megan, 104–105
Garrison, William Lloyd, 116–117
Garza, Alicia, 8, 54, 60, 75, 98, 126–128, 131, 132, 239
Gates, Daryl, 4
Gay, Roxane, 60
Gay Liberation Front, 90
Gay rights movement, 2, 89–90, 115
Gbowee, Leymah, xix
Geier, Kathleen, 19
Geraghty, Bill, 68
Ghostbusters (film), 11, 12, 204
Gifford, Carolyn DeSwarte, 83
Gillespie, Ed, 222
Gilliam, Terry, 194
Gillibrand, Kirsten, 33, 36, 53, 82, 107, 162–164, 224
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, xxix, 76, 161, 211
Giuliani, Rudy, 66
Goldberg, Michelle, 10, 41, 237
Goldstein, Dana, 237
Goldstein, Gabrielle, 212
Gone Girl (Flynn), 184
González, Emma, 42, 213, 247–248
Good Wife, The (television show), 11
Goodman, Emily Jane, 111
Goop, 59
Gore, Al, 137
Gornick, Vivian, 231, 234, 248
Graham, Sara Hunter, 86
Gray, Freddie, 197
Great Chicago Fire of 1871, 84
Great Migration, 85
Greeks, xix
Greene, Lauren, 170
Greitens, Eric, 192–193
Grimké, Angelina, 116–117, 210
Gun violence, xxxi, 42, 152–153, 213, 224, 229, 238, 247
Gutfield, Greg, 147
Gwynne, Kristen, 204
Haberman, Maggie, 106
Hair (musical), 108
Haley, Margaret, 237
Haley, Nikki, 63
Halperin, Mark, 32, 140, 176, 185, 194, 219
Hamer, Fannie Lou, xxiv
Handmaid’s Tale, The (television show), 35, 105
Haneke, Michael, 192
Hannity, Sean, 63n64
Hardnett, Sukari, 191
Harper, Ida Husted, 86
Harper’s Magazine, 142
Harris, Kamala, 33, 54, 55, 77, 107, 152, 163
Hart, Gary, xv, 95, 96, 159–160
Hart, Mrs. Gary, 159–160
Harvard Crimson, 189
Harvard University, 110, 173, 188
Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, 21
Hassan, Maggie, 55
Hastert, Dennis, 53
Headlee, Celeste, 171
Health care, 107, 121, 122, 141, 203, 220, 228n229
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 92, 124, 125, 172n173
Height, Dorothy, xiv, 78, 124, 125
Hess, Amanda, 78
Hill, Anita, 3–4, 24, 39, 85, 139, 161, 170, 186, 191, 201
Hitchens, Christopher, 69–70
Hochman, Sandra, xiv–xvi
Hockenberry, John, 147, 171, 189
Holder, Kanene, 8
Hollywood Reporter, 194
Hornish, Michele, 213
House Armed Services Committee, 99, 100
Houston, Whitney, 74
HowardParker, Ina, 172
Humor, 99–106
Hurricane Katrina, 5
Hurricane Maria, 36
Hurston, Zora Neale, 39
Hurwitz, Eve, 225
Iadarola, John, 64
Immigration, 115, 129, 198, 203
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, 17
Industrial Workers of the World, 84
Intercourse (Dworkin), 153, 154
Intersectionality, 129
Iraq, invasion of (2003), 5
It Starts Today website, 213
Ithaca Journal, 167
Jackson, Jesse, 5
Jackson, Lauren Michele, 78
Jaffe, Sarah, 32
James, Letitia, 33
Jamison, Leslie, 94
Jane Collective, 212
Jarrett, Valerie, 70
Jay, Timothy, 108
Jay-Z, 20
Jender, Ren, 8
Jet magazine, 88
Jilani, Zaid, 18
Johnson, Lyndon B., xxiv
Johnson, Marsha P., 89–90
Jones, Lawrence, 72
Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones), 84
Jones, Sarah, 19
Jong, Erica, 211
Josephine, Empress, 83
Jourdain, Rose, 191
Judd, Ashley, 129
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 84
Kantor, Jodi, 137
Kaplan, Esther, xxx
Karl, Terry, 173
Keaton, Diane, 3
Kelly, Megyn, 21
Kennedy, Anthony, 203
Kennedy, Edward M., 170
Kennedy, Florynce, xiv, xvi, xviii, 95, 100, 109–112, 248
Kennedy, John F., xxiv
Kenya, 111
Kerr, Andrea Moore, 119
Key, Keegan-Michael, 101
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, 8, 9, 35–36
King, Coretta Scott, 34
King, Martin Luther Jr., xxv, 78, 92, 125, 215, 246
King, Pete, 213
Kiowa, Kansas, 83–84
Knowles, Solange, 54
Koch brothers, 6
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 170
Kotb, Hoda, 219
Kring, Ann, 94
Kristol, Bill, 68
Labor movement, xxi, 84, 116, 210, 237
Lake, Celinda, 229
Lauer, Matt, 140, 143, 174, 185, 195, 219
Lean In (Sandberg), 11
Lee, Barbara, 45–51, 81, 94–95, 98, 239, 249
Lee, Spike, 3
Lemlich, Clara, xxi
Lemonade (Beyoncé), 20
Lesko, Debbie, 221
Letters from a War Zone (Dworkin), 155
Levy-Pounds, Nekima, 9
Lewinsky, Monica, 161
Liberator, The, 116–117
Liberia, xix
Lieberman, Joe, 137
Life magazine, 85
Lilla, Mark, 28
Lincoln, Abraham, 108
Literacy tests, 120
Litman, Amanda, 209, 222, 242, 243
Lorde, Audre, xxx–xxxi, 78, 127, 131–132, 153, 248
Los Angeles riots, 4–5
Louis XVI, King of France, xix, 136
Love, Eula, 75
Lowell mills, Massachusetts, xxi, 116
Lysistrata, xix
MacFarlane, Seth, 102
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 66
MacKinnon, Catherine, 153–154, 168, 214, 246
Maddow, Rachel, 185
Maher, Bill, 80
Make Trouble (Richards), 91
Malcolm X, 92
Malkin, Michelle, 69
Manne, Kate, 196
March on Washington (1963), 124–125
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, xxxi, 42, 152–153, 213, 238
Marketplace (radio show), 172
Marriott, Caitlin, 54–55
Martin, Trayvon, 8
Massie, Mychal, 69
Matta, Tatiana, 217
Matthews, Chris, 175
Mayer, Louis B., 139
McCain, Meghan, 197
McCarthy, Kevin, 217
McCaskill, Claire, 25, 32, 163
McDormand, Frances, 213
McGovern, George, xiv, xv, 95–96
McGowan, Rose, 199
McGuire, Danielle, 92
McLaughlin, Heather, 172
#metoo movement, xviii, xxix, xxvii, xxx, 38–40, 90, 141, 146, 147, 155–157, 159–164, 167, 169–171, 173, 177, 179, 181, 183–187, 189, 192–194, 198, 200–202, 204, 208, 214, 219, 220, 229, 237, 239, 246
Meatpacking industry, 85
Medicaid, 104
Medium, 101
Medusa, 52
Meehan, Patrick, 220
Meet the Press (NBC), 162
Meinzer, Kristen, 147–148, 189
Merkin, Daphne, 182–183
“MIA: The Liberal Men We Love” (Butcher), 232
Milbank, Dana, 62–63
Miller, Jason, 55
Miller, Laura, 179–180
Million Women March, 28–29
Mills College, 50
Minassian, Alek, 204
Minerva, 52
Mitchell, Candis, 212
Mitchell, George, 201
Mondale, Walter, xv
Montgomery bus boycott, xxi, 91, 92
Moore, Gwen, 106–107
Morales, Jessica, 124, 130, 236, 237–239
Morrison, Toni, 172
Mosely Braun, Carol, 4, 215–216, 227
Mott, Lucretia, 117
MSNBC, 176
MTV Video Music Awards, 11, 12
Mukhopadhyay, Samhita, 37
Multiculturalism, 5
Mumbet (Elizabeth Freeman), xxi
Murray, Patty, 4, 33, 85–86, 163
Muskie, Edmund, 98
Muslim travel ban, 32, 33, 213, 237
My Enemy, My Love (Levine), 145–146
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 50, 92
Napoleon, Emperor, 83
Nash, Diane, 124
Nassar, Larry, 152
Nation, Carrie, 83–84
National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), 224
National Domestic Workers Alliance, 239
National Farmworker Women’s Alliance, 239
National Organization for Women (NOW), 24
National Rifle Association (NRA), 42, 224, 238
National Woman Suffrage Association, 132–133
National Women’s Party, 239
National Women’s Political Caucus, xiv
National Women’s Studies Association, 78
Native Women’s Caucus, 130
Navarro, Omar, 72
NBC (National Broadcasting Company), 162, 185, 198
Neeson, Niam, 192
Neller, Robert, 53
New Republic, 175
New York City Commission on Human Rights, 167, 168
New York Herald, 150
New York Times, xxvi, 16, 22, 28, 37, 38, 41, 56, 63, 65, 68, 79, 90, 91, 98–100, 106–108, 113–114, 132, 137, 138, 140, 152–153, 155, 162, 164, 182, 188, 194, 196, 203, 237
New Yorker magazine, 37, 70, 106, 140, 166
Newsome, Bree, 9
Newsweek magazine, 3
Newton-Small, Jay, 85
Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, xx, 120, 133, 150, 210, 247
Nixon, Cynthia, 217
Northam, Ralph, 222
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, xxix, 168
#notokay, 22
O (film), 137
Obama, Barack, xvii, 5, 6, 12, 15, 16, 30, 59, 76, 101, 227
Obama, Michelle, 5, 23, 24, 67–70
Obamacare, 107
OcasioCortez, Alexandria, 217, 220
Occupy Wall Street, 7–8, 18, 31, 237
O’Connor, Sinead, 54
Oluo, Ijeoma, 39
O’Reilly, Bill, 38, 74, 140, 173–174, 201
Orleck, Annelise, 29
O’Rourke, Meghan, 93
Our Bodies, Ourselves, 211
Owusu, Joelle, 71
Oxford, Kelly, 22
Pacelle, Wayne, 219
Palin, Sarah, 6
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 59
Pantsuit Nation, 24, 208, 231, 233
Parkland, Florida school shooting, xxxi, 42, 152–153, 213, 238
Parks, Rosa, xxi, xxvi–xxvii, 91–92, 124
Paycheck Fairness Act, 109
Pearson’s Magazine, 86
Peck, Fanny, 85
Peeler-Allen, Kimberley, 223, 225
Pelosi, Nancy, 52–54, 75, 129–130, 162
Penich-Thacker, Dawn, 232–234
People magazine, 110
Peoples, Angela, 79
Perez, Carmen, 29
Perkins, Frances, 42
Perseus, 52
Piece of Work, A (documentary), 102
Piper, Adrian, 214
Place of Rage, A (documentary), xix, 92, 93
Planned Parenthood, 7, 31, 91, 151, 196, 224, 228
Poehler, Amy, xxvi
“Poem for Women in Rage, A” (Lorde), 78
Police, 8, 9, 196–197, 211, 224
Poo, AiJen, 239
Power, The (Alderman), 214
Power of the Positive Woman, The (Schlafly), 100
Poynter, 108
Presidential elections
1972, 23, 50, 62, 68, 70, 95–96, 98, 215
2000, 137
2008, 5, 23, 62, 68, 70, 176, 242, 249
2016, xv, xvii, xxii, xxvii, xxviii, 7, 9, 12, 14–19, 21–28, 30, 52, 61, 63–67, 76, 80–81, 93, 101, 122–124, 161, 174, 176, 190, 205, 207, 208, 212, 226, 230, 233, 242, 249
Price, Roy, 174
Proctor, Andrew, 123
Profanity, 106–109
Property laws, 210
Puerto Rico, 36
Racism, xix, xxviii, xxx–xxxi, 4, 8–10, 15, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30, 71, 74, 75, 87–88, 95, 118, 119, 126, 127, 130, 133, 172, 191, 246
Raddatz, Martha, 24
Ramirez, Monica, 239
Rao, Saira, 127
Rape, 92, 104, 121, 139, 154, 166, 168, 179, 193, 194, 201
Rather, Dan, xiv
Reagan era, 2–3
Real Time with Bill Maher, 80
RealClearPolitics, 53
Rehnquist, William, 168
Reines, Philippe, 162
Renay, Liz, xv
Republican National Convention (2016), 16, 23
Resistance Manual, The (Juneja), 60
Revolution, The (suffrage publication), 119
Reynolds, Diamond, 211
Rhimes, Shonda, 11
Richards, Ann, 151
Richards, Cecile, 91, 151, 239
Richardson, Gloria, 124
Rihanna, 78
Rivera, Sylvia, 89–90
Rivers, Joan, 102
Robinson, Isabelle, 152–153
Robinson, Phoebe, 102
Rodger, Elliot, 204
Roe vs. Wade (1973), 203
Roem, Danica, 204
Roiphe, Katie, 142, 158–159, 183
Roof, Dylann, 196
Rose, Charlie, 140, 143, 146, 169, 171, 188, 194–195, 219
Rose, Ernestine, 210
Rules Committee, 47
Run for Something, 209, 222, 242
Russo, Patricia, 37, 39, 222–223
Ryan, Paul, 46–47, 53, 86, 103–104
Salem, Massachusetts, 192
Salon, 18
San Fernando High School, California, 49–50
Sanders, Bernie, xxii, 7, 18, 19, 29, 63, 66, 217, 230
Sanders, Sarah Huckabee, 52, 74, 105–106
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut, 42
Santelli, Rick, 6
Santoro, Geraldine, 211
Sarandon, Susan, 3
Sarsour, Linda, 29, 33, 114, 116, 128
Saturday Night Live, 24, 97–98
Scanlon, Jennifer, 173
Scanlon, Mary Gay, 220
Scarborough, Joe, 52
Schlafly, Phyllis, 2, 6, 100, 123, 124, 152, 200, 201
Schneiderman, Eric, 147, 194, 219, 220
Schneiderman, Rose, 42
School shootings, xxxi, 42, 152–153, 213, 238
Schriock, Stephanie, 225
Schroeder, Patricia, 17, 96–100, 159–160
Schwegler, Lyzz, 212
Schwerin, Dan, 66–67
Scott, Darrell, 54
Seale, Bobby, 51
Senate Judiciary Committee, 3–4, 34, 170, 191
Seneca Falls convention (1848), 83, 117, 133, 148–150
September 11 terrorist attacks, 46, 66
Sessions, Jefferson Beauregard III, 34, 55, 77, 152, 203
Sessions, Pete, 47–48
Settlement house movement, 237
Sex positivity, 10
Sexism, xxviii, 10, 15, 21–25, 28, 39, 71, 75, 118, 130, 144, 176, 226, 246, 248
Sexual assault and harassment, xviii, xxx, 8, 10, 22–23, 38–40, 53, 90, 102–103, 137, 139–141, 144, 146, 147, 150, 152, 157–199, 201–203, 214, 219–221, 224, 226, 249
Sexual revolution, 150
Shange, Ntozake, 211
Sharpton, Al, 5
Sheinkopf, Hank, 162
Shepard, Alicia, 108
She’s Gotta Have It (film), 3
Shire, Warsan, 20
Shirley, Liuba Grechen, 213
Shitty Media Men List, 142, 143, 165, 183
Shiva, 93
Shook, Teresa, 28
Shulman, Alix Kates, 143
Sinclair, Upton, 84
Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, xix
Sister District Project, 212
Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, 120
Slavery, xx, xxi, 40, 41, 116–117, 121, 201
Slutwalks, 10
Small Deeds Done website, 213
Smith, Lis, 162
Smith, Mychal Denzel, 5
Smith, Tina, 220
Socialist movements, 115
Solnit, Rebecca, 196
Sopranos, The (television show), 93
South Africa, 153
South Carolina State House, 9
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 124
Sow, Aminatou, 166
Spacey, Kevin, 140
Spruill, Marjorie, 150
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 79, 83, 117–120, 133, 152–154, 210, 243, 244, 248
STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), 90
Steele, Andrea, 227
Stein, Jill, 18
Steinem, Gloria, xiv, 55–57, 93, 95–96, 100, 108–111, 120, 153, 155, 161, 224
Stephanopoulos, George, 30, 31, 152
Stephens, Richard, 107–108
Stern, Howard, 15
Stewart-Bouley, Shay, 98
Stockman, Farah, 114
Stone, Lucy, 119–120
Stonewall (film), 90
Stonewall Riots, New York City, 88–90
Stoynoff, Natasha, 22
Strolovitch, Dara, 123
Stronger Together Arizona, 233
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 124
Suffrage movement, 117–120, 123, 132–133, 210, 237–239, 247
Sullivan, Andrew, 200
Sununu, John, 97
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, xv
Supreme Court of the United States, xxvi, 4, 161, 168, 203, 211, 215, 247
Tax, Meredith, xvi
Taylor, Recy, 92
Teachers’ strikes, 233–234, 237
Temperance movement, 83–84, 210
Temple of Athena, xix
Terrell, Mary Church, 70–71
Texas Southern University, 49
Thaïs, xix
Thelma & Louise (film), 179, 229
30 Rock (television show), 102
Thomas, Clarence, 4, 161, 170, 186, 201, 215
Three Point Strategies, 212
Thurman, Uma, 90–91
Time magazine, 97
TIME’S UP movement, 212
Tipirneni, Hiral, 221
Today show (NBC), 143, 174, 219
Tometi, Opal, 8
Tortorici, Dayna, 165
Train, George Francis, 119
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, xxi, 42
Triece, Mary, 85
Trump, Donald, xxii, xxxi, 39, 56, 60–61, 93, 104, 144, 201, 202, 227, 228
Access Hollywood tape and, 22, 137
domestic policies of, 203
Fox News and, 173–174
on inauguration size, 30
Muslim travel ban and, 32, 33, 213, 237
name-calling by, 106
protests against and criticism of, xvii–xviii, 36, 37, 54–55, 104–105, 128, 130, 141
State of the Union address, 36, 52, 239
2016 campaign, xxvii, xxviii, 15–17, 21–28, 30, 63, 66, 80–81, 123, 174, 176, 190, 205, 226, 230
Waters, Maxine and, 72–76
women, actions and attitude toward, 21–23, 25, 38, 196–198, 221
Yates firing and, 34
Zero Tolerance policy and, 74
Trump, Ivanka, 198
Trump, Melania, 22
Trump Foundation, 219
Truth, Sojourner, 118
Tuck, Stephen, 85
Tunis, Cortney, 207–209
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Peterson), 197
Twitter, xxxi, 162, 198, 221, 237
Twohey, Megan, 137
Underwood, Lauren, 217
“Uses of Anger, The” (Lorde), xxx–xxxi, 78, 127, 131–132
Vester, Linda, 185, 186, 193–194
Vietnam War, 153
View, The (television show), 73
Vilardi, Erin, 221–226
Virginia elections (2017), 204–205, 222, 223, 231
VoteRunLead, 221, 223, 225, 226
Voting rights, xx, 83, 84, 86, 94, 117–121, 203, 247
Voting Rights Act of 1965, xx, 120, 133, 247
Wadler, Naomi, 238
Wagner, Alex, 219
Waiting to Exhale (film), 77–78
Wales, Rebecca, 7
Wallace, Mike, xiv
Warren, Elizabeth, 7, 19, 33–35, 54–56, 106
Washington, George, 115
Washington Post, xv, 62–63, 98, 175, 185, 188, 190, 231
Waters, Maxine, 36, 40, 53–54, 72–77, 98, 111, 130
Weaver, Jeff, 18
Weaver, Sigourney, 3
Webb, Marilyn Salzman, 29
Weiner, Anthony, 176
Weinstein, Harvey, 38, 102–103, 137–141, 143, 166, 169, 186, 188–190, 192–195, 199, 201
West, Kanye, 5
What Happened (Clinton), 67, 92–93, 126–127
White, Micah, 31
White House Correspondents’ Dinner (2018), 105–106
White supremacists, 35, 36, 129, 218
Wieseltier, Leon, 140, 175, 182
Willard, Frances, 83
Williams, Diane, 191
Williams, Juan, 69
Wilson, Woodrow, 210
Winfrey, Oprah, 70
W.I.T.C.H., 35
Wolf, Michelle, 105–106
Women of the Sunken Place, 186
Women’s Conference, Houston (1977), 111
Women’s Congress (1876), 83
Women’s Health magazine, 242
Women’s marches, xvii, xxii, 27–32, 35, 113, 114, 126, 128–131, 152, 232, 237, 246
Women’s movement, 2, 9, 29, 116, 117, 120, 126, 128–129, 133, 144, 151
Wong, Carmen Rita, xiii
Wong, Janelle S., 123
Woodhull, Victoria, 82–83
Woodward, Bob, 63
Working Girl (film), 3
Working Women United, 168
Workplace safety regulations, xxi, 42
World AntiSlavery Convention (1840), 117
World Trade Organization, 5
World War I, 210
Wright, Angela, 191
Wright, Jeremiah, 5
Wright, Kim Drew, 231
Wu, Lala, 212
Xerxes, King of Persia, xix
Yale University, Women’s Campaign School, 37, 222–223
Yates, Sally, 33–34
Year of the Woman, 223
Year of the Woman (documentary), xv–xvi
You Can’t Touch My Hair (Robinson), 102
“Young Are At the Gates, The,” 238–239
Young Turks, The, 64
Yousafzai, Malala, 34
Zeigler, Jessica, 212
Zero Tolerance policy, 74
Zimmerman, George, 8