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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
foreword
introduction
1 - Hitting Puberty
Amazon Women on the Moon - Remembering Femininity in the Video Age
Rubyfruit Jungle Gym - An Annotated Bibliography of the Lesbian Young Adult Novel
Stormin’ Norma - Why I Love the Queen of Teen
Sister Outsider Headbanger - On Being a Black Feminist Metalhead
Bloodletting - Female Adolescence in Modern Horror Films
The, Like, Downfall of the English Language - A Fluffy Word with a Hefty Problem
Teen Mean Fighting Machine - Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls?
2 - Ladies and Gentlemen
Urinalysis - On Standing Up to Pee
The Collapsible Woman - Cultural Response to Rape and Sexual Abuse
The Princess and the Prankster - Two Performers Take on Art, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
What Happens to a Dyke Deferred? - The Trouble with Hasbians and the Phenomenon of Banishment
On Language - You Guys
Skirt Chasers - Why the Media Dresses the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels
Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down - On Getting Dressed in Jerusalem
Screen Butch Blues - The Celluloid Fate of Female Masculinity
Dead Man Walking - Masculinity’s Troubling Persistence
3 - The F Word
And Now a Word from Our Sponsors - Feminism for Sale
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Feminism! - On the Feminists Who Aren’t
Celebrity Jeopardy - The Perils of Feminist Fame
Unnatural Selection - Questioning Science’s Gender Bias
On Language - Choice
Laugh Riot - Feminism and the Problem of Women’s Comedy
Girl, Unreconstructed - Why Girl Power Is Bad for Feminism
4 - Desire
In Re-Mission - Why Does Redbook Want to Keep Us on Our Backs?
Hot and Bothered - Unmasking Male Lust
I Heard It Through the Loveline - And Misinformation Just Might Make Me Lose My Mind
The New Sexual Deviant - Mapping Virgin Territory
Envy, a Love Story - Queering Female Jealousy
Fan/Tastic Voyage - Rewriting Gender in the Wide, Wild World of Slash Fiction
Hot for Teacher - On the Erotics of Pedagogy
Holy Fratrimony - Male Bonding and the New Homosociality
5 - Domestic Arrangements
The Paradox of Martha Stewart - Goddess, Desperate Spouse-Seeker, or Feminist Role Model?
Double Life - Everyone Wants to See Your Breasts—Until Your Baby Needs Them
Queer and Pleasant Danger - What’s Up with the Mainstreaming of Gay Parents?
Mother Inferior - How Hollywood Keeps Single Moms in Their Place
Hoovers and Shakers - The New Housework Workout
6 - Beauty Myths and Body Projects
Plastic Passion - Tori Spelling’s Breasts and Other Results of Cosmetic Darwinism
Vulva Goldmine - The New Culture of Vaginal Reconstruction
Are Fat Suits the New Blackface? - Hollywood’s Big New Minstrel Show
Busting the Beige Barrier - The Limits of “Ethnic” Cosmetics
Your Stomach’s the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already - An Open Letter to Carnie Wilson
Beyond the Bearded Lady - Outgrowing the Shame of Female Facial Hair
7 - Confronting the Mainstream
Pratt-fall - Ten Things to Hate About Jane
Marketing Miss Right - Meet the Single Girl, Twenty-First-Century Style
The God of Big Trends - Book Publishing’s Ethnic Cool Quotient
The Black and the Beautiful - Searching for Signs of Black Life in Prime-Time Comedy
I Kissed a Girl - The Evolution of the Prime-Time Lesbian Clinch
XXX Offender - Reality Porn and the Rise of Humilitainment
Bias Cut - Old Racism as New Fashion
8 - Talking Back
Please Don’t Feed the Models - A Day in the Life of an Urban Guerrilla
Refuse and Resist with Jean Kilbourne - How to Counteract Ad Messages
Full Frontal Offense - Bringing Abortion Rights to the Ts
Meet Anne - A Spunky, Adventurous American Girl
How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media - A Feminist Advocacy Guide
About the Author
Praise for bitchfest
the BITCHfest resource list
about the contributors
acknowledgments
Notes
Copyright Page
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