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about the book
Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism, a book that embodies the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagates on her popular website, Feministing.com.
Covering a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more, Valenti provides young women a primer on why feminism matters.
Valenti knows better than anyone that young women need a smart-ass book that deals with real-life issues in a style they can relate to. No rehashing the same old issues. No belaboring where today's young women have gone wrong. Feminism should be something young women feel comfortable with, something they can own. Full Frontal Feminism is sending out the message to readers -- yeah, you're feminists, and that's actually pretty frigging cool.
what people are saying
"Full Frontal Feminism shows us feminism is alive and well and kicking all kinds of oppressive male ass." –Margaret Cho
"Jessica Valenti gets right to the point: If you are a smart, modern women, feminism must be a part of your life. Full Frontal Feminism will leave readers wondering not what can I do, but should I do first." –Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, coauthors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future
"Finally, a book on feminism that's filled with the sassiness to keep reading, and the statistics to make us give a damn." –Daisy Hernandez, coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
"Valenti has produced a lively, witty, primer on feminism that will inspire its audience." – Lisa Jervis, cofounder of Bitch Magazine
"…Valenti writes slangy, profane and disconcertingly funny prose. She's like the Fran Lebowitz of women's rights…"
–Rebecca Traister, Salon.com
about jessica
Jessica Valenti, 29, is the founder and Executive Editor of Feministing. She has a Masters degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and has worked with national and international women's organizations. Jessica is also a co-founder of the REAL Hot 100, a campaign that aims to change the perception of younger women in the media and the blogger for NARAL Pro-Choice America. Her writing has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Bitch, AlterNet, Salon.com, Guernica Magazine and The Guardian (UK), as well as the anthologies We Don't Need Another Wave and Single State of the Union. In 2007, she received a Choice USA Generation award for her commitment to reproductive rights issues and was named one of ELLE magazine's 2007 IntELLEgentsia.
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