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Valenti, Jessica.
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Valenti, Jessica.
Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
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Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Sexual harassment of women -- Biography.
Sexism.
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Man-woman relationships -- Biography.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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Valenti, Jessica.
Valenti, Jessica.
Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Sexual harassment of women -- Biography.
Sexism.
Sex.
Man-woman relationships -- Biography.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Feminism.
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Sex
object
: a
memoir
/ Jessica Valenti.
by
Valenti, Jessica.
Dey Street Books, 2016.
Call #:
305.42092 V155s
Subjects
Valenti, Jessica.
Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Biography.
Sexual harassment of women -- Biography.
Sexism.
Sex
.
Man-woman relationships -- Biography.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Feminism.
ISBN:
9780062435088 (hc.)
9780062435095 (pbk.)
Description:
204 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"When Guardian US columnist Jessica Valent launched Feministing.com in 2004, it became the most popular feminist site online, partly because of her humor, frankness, and willingness to open up about her own life and struggles. In this book, Valenti focuses on the funny, painful, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments from her life that tell a story about modern womanhood. Structured in three acts to follow the arc of a woman's life, Bodies, Boys, Babies, stories about drugs,
sex
, harassment, assault, bad boyfriends, too-nice boyfriends, abortions, birth, class anxiety, impostor syndrome, death threats, resistance, and family. With its controversial subject matter (there is a highly detailed chapter about getting an abortion),
Sex
Object
is bound to make waves the same way Fear of Flying did in the '70s. Jessica Valenti is the author of multiple books on feminism, politics and culture, and editor of the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape."--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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