Notes

CHAPTER 1

            1   Jennifer Siebel Newsom (director). Miss Representation, 2001, therepresentationproject.org/film/miss-representation/.

            2   Margaret Renkl, “The Scary Trend of Tweens with Anorexia,” CNN Online, August 2011, cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/08/tweens.anorexia.parenting/.

            3   Chris Iliades, MD, “Stats and Facts about Depression in America,” Everyday Health, January 2013, everydayhealth.com/hs/major-depression/depression-statistics/.

            4   Katherine Bindley, “Women and Prescription Drugs: One in Four Takes Mental Health Meds,” Huffington Post, August 2011, huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/women-and-prescription-drug-use_n_1098023.html.

            5   Cynthia R. Bulik, PhD, “Survey Finds Disordered Eating Behaviors among Three out of Four American Women,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, April 2008, med.unc.edu/www/newsarchive/2008/april/survey-finds-disordered-eating-behaviors-among-three-out-of-four-american-women.

            6   Shaun Dreisbach, “Shocking Body-Image News: 97% of Women Will Be Cruel to Their Bodies Today,” Glamour Magazine Online, February 2011, glamour.com/story/shocking-body-image-news-97-percent-of-women-will-be-cruel-to-their-bodies-today.

            7   Madison Park, “WHO: 1 in 3 Women Experience Physical or Sexual Violence,” CNN Online, June 20, 2013, cnn.com/2013/06/20/health/global-violence-women/.

            8   National Sexual Violence Resource Center, “Statistics about Sexual Violence,” 2012, 2013, 2015, nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf.

            9   Ibid.

          10   Sandra McKay and Nancy H. Hornberger, Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 226.

          11   International Labour Organization, “Forced Labour, Modern Slavery, and Human Trafficking,” International Labour Organization online (1996–2016), ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang--en/index.htm.

          12   Maeve Duggan, “Online Harassment,” Pew Research Center, October 2014, pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/.

CHAPTER 2

            1   Mirabai Starr, Saint Teresa of Avila: Passionate Mystic (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2007), 65.

CHAPTER 4

            1   Bob Samples, The Metaphoric Mind: A Celebration of Creative Consciousness (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1976), 26.

CHAPTER 6

            1   Alisa Vitti, HHC, WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source (New York: HarperOne, 2013), 6.

CHAPTER 7

            1   Karla McLaren, The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2010), 31.

CHAPTER 8

            1   Mirabai Starr, Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2016), xiii.

            2   Mirabai Starr, Saint Teresa of Avila, 80.

CHAPTER 10

            1   Riane Eisler, Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body— New Paths to Power and Love (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), 145.

            2   Marilyn Frye, Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1992), 133.

CHAPTER 11

            1   Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 240.

            2   Eisler, Sacred Pleasure, 60.

            3   Ibid., 59.

            4   Ibid., 49.

            5   Ibid., 373.

CHAPTER 12

            1   Wolf, Vagina, 4.

CHAPTER 14

            1   Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance and Morphic Fields— An Introduction,” sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introduction.

            2   Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance,” sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance.

CHAPTER 15

            1   Caroline Myss, Advanced Energy Anatomy: The Science of Co-Creation and Your Power of Choice (Boulder: Sounds True, 2002), audio book.

            2   Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues (New York: Villard Books, 1998), xx.

CHAPTER 16

            1   Wikipedia, “Heresy,” last modified December 12, 2016, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy#cite_note-4.

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