NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN
The council comprises a network of more than one hundred U.S. research, advocacy, and policy centers; part of its mission is to ensure “fully informed debate, policies, and practices to build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls.” (www.ncrw.org)
NATIONAL INDIAN WOMEN’S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER
NIWHRC is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to help American Indian and Alaska Native women achieve optimal health and well-being throughout their lives. (www.niwhrc.org)
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
The National Institute for Reproductive Health offers breakthrough education programs and encourages advocacy strategies proven to expand access to quality reproductive healthcare. (www.nirhealth.org)
NATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
The mission of NLIRH is to secure the fundamental human right to reproductive health and justice for Latinas, their families, and their communities through public education, community mobilization, and policy advocacy. (www.latinainstitute.org)
NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
NNEDV is a membership and advocacy organization of state domestic-violence coalitions; it makes sure that national policymakers hear and understand those coalitions’ needs. (www.nnedv.org)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES
Formerly the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, the National Partnership was founded in 1971 and uses public education and advocacy to push for workplace equality, healthcare, and policies that help people meet work and family demands. (www.nationalpartnership.org)
NATIONAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER
The center serves as the nation’s principal information and resource center regarding all aspects of sexual violence. (www.nsvrc.org)
NATIONAL WOMEN’S POLITICAL CAUCUS
The National Women’s Political Caucus is a bipartisan, multicultural grassroots organization dedicated to increasing women’s participation in the political field and creating a political power base designed to achieve equality for all women. (www.nwpc.org)
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA
PPFA is the nation’s leading women’s healthcare provider, educator, and advocate, serving women, men, teens, and families. Planned Parenthood provides quality healthcare and services, offers medically accurate information, and advances effective health policies. (www.plannedparenthood.org)
RAPE, ABUSE & INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation’s largest anti- sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline; publicizes the hotlines’ free, confidential services; and educates the public about sexual assault. (www.rainn.org)
SAFE HORIZON
Safe Horizon is the nation’s leading victim-assistance organization. Based in NYC, the group provides support, addresses violence, and promotes justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families, and their communities. (www.safehorizon.org)
SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH COLLECTIVE
SisterSong is a network of local, regional, and national grassroots agencies representing women of color in the United States. The collective works to educate women of color and policymakers on reproductive and sexual health and rights, and advocates access to health services, information, and resources that are culturally and linguistically appropriate. (www.sistersong.net)
THE WHITE HOUSE PROJECT
The White House Project aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors—including the U.S. presidency—by filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse critical mass of women. (www. thewhitehouseproject.org)
WOMEN’S SPORTS FOUNDATION
The Women’s Sports Foundation—the leading authority on women’s and girls’ participation in athletics—advocates for equality, educates the public, conducts research, and offers grants to endorse sports and physical activity for girls and women. (www.womenssportsfoundation.org)
WOMEN’S VOICES. WOMEN VOTE
Women’s Voices. Women Vote started with one goal in mind: to increase unmarried women’s participation in the electorate and policymaking process. (www.wvwv.org)
YOUNGER WOMEN’S TASK FORCE
A project of the National Council of Women’s Organizations, YWTF is a nationwide, grassroots movement that focuses on issues affecting younger women; it’s also an amazing resource for women who want to organize locally. YWTF has youth-led chapters across the country. (www.ywtf.org)
A note about local organizations: The organizations and groups listed here work overwhelmingly at the national level. But I can’t stress enough how important finding local, grassroots groups in your community is.
magazines
Finding progressive news sources isn’t always easy; these magazines are a great place to start.
The American Prospect (www.prospect.org)
Bitch magazine (www.bitchmagazine.com)
ColorLines (www.colorlines.com)
In These Times (www.inthesetimes.com)
make/shift (www.makeshiftmag.com)
Ms. magazine (www.msmagazine.com)
New Moon (www.newmoon.com)
Salon (www.salon.com)
Shameless magazine (www.shamelessmag.com)
The Nation (www.thenation.com)
Tint Magazine (www.tintmag.com)
WireTap (www.wiretapmag.org)
Women’s eNews (http://womensenews.org)
Women’s Media Center (www.womensmediacenter.com)
blogs
Alas, a Blog (www.amptoons.com/blog)
AngryBlackBitch (http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com)
AngryBrownButch (www.angrybrownbutch.com)
Bitch Ph.D. (http://bitchphd.blogspot.com)
Black and Missing but not Forgotten (http://blackandmissing.blogspot.com)
Broadsheet (www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/index.html)
Change Happens: the SAFER Blog (http://safercampus.org/blog)
Echidne of the Snakes (www.echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com)
Economic Woman (http://economicwoman.com)
Feminist Law Professors (http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu)
Feministe (http://feministe.us/blog)
Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog (http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com)
Global Voices Online (www.globalvoicesonline.org)
I Blame the Patriarchy (http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com)
Lynne d Johnson (www.lynnedjohnson.com/diary)
Muslimah Media Watch (http://muslimahmediawatch.blogspot.com)
Our Bodies, Our Blog (www.ourbodiesourblog.org)
Pam’s HouseBlend (www.pamshouseblend.com)
Pandagon (www.pandagon.net)
PopPolitics (www.poppolitics.com)
Racewire (www.racewire.org)
Racialicious (www.racialicious.com)
Radical Doula (http://radicaldoula.wordpress.com)
RH RealityCheck (www.rhrealitycheck.org)
Shakespeare’s Sister (www.shakesville.com)
Shapely Prose (http://kateharding.net)
The Curvature (http://thecurvature.com)
Trans Group Blog (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com)
WIMN’s Voices (www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog)
Women and Hollywood (http://womenandhollywood.blogspot.com)
Women of Color Blog (http://brownfemipower.com)
Women’s Health News (http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com)
books
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
by Cristina Page
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy Roberts
Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
by Naomi Wolf
Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh
Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics
by Ronnee Schreiber
Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics
by Dagmar Herzog
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to
Fight Back
by Gloria Feldt
Virgin: The Untouched History
by Hanne Blank
Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences
by Laura Carpenter
index
A
abortion: campaigns against; difficulty obtaining; false links to breast cancer ; federal funding against; Hyde Amendment; “ informed consent” laws; measures against Roe; misinformation on; as personal choice; precedent banning; punishment for; requiring ultrasounds for; women as victims of; written male consent for
Abortion Access Project:
abstinence: defined; in pop culture; as strength; venerating
Abstinence Awareness Week:
Abstinence Clearinghouse:
Abstinence Comes to Albuquerque:
abstinence-only education:; activism against; anti-empowering ; commodifying virginity ; funding for; ineffectiveness of; mainstreaming; misinformation in; recent changes to; results of ; state refusal of
abuse, sexual: of children; of dolls; gender stereotyping in; by moral order “guardians”; pornographic; by sex traffickers; shaming women for; statistics; victims as blamed for; of women of color; women’s excuses for ; see also rape
ACLU:
activism:
Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act (2007):
Administration for Children and Families (ACF):
Adolescent Family Life Act (1981):
adoption:
advocacy, for the sexually exploited:
Advocates for Youth:
aggression:
A-H guidelines:
Allen, Charlotte:
Alpha Center:
American Association of University Women:
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists:
American Psychological Association (A PA):
Angier, Natalie:
anti-aging, vaginal:
anti-choice legislation:
antifeminism:
anti-obscenity laws:
A Return to Modesty: Discovering Lost Virtue (Shalit):
Arnet, Heather:
AskMen.com:
athletes, female:
Axe commercials:
B
Badgley Enterprises:
Baumgardner, Jennifer:
beauty: indoctrination on physical; obsession with; pathologizing aging; queens
Betito, Laurie:
Binge:
birth control. See contraception
birth rates:
Bitch magazine:
Biting Beaver:
Black Women’s Health Imperative:
blame, of rape victims:
Blank, Hanne:
blogs:
Blustain, Sarah:
bodies, womens’: pathologizing; removing personal control over
books, progressive:
born-again virginity:
Bradley, Katelyn:
bralettes:
Bratz:
breast cancer:
Bringing Up Boys (Dobson):
Brownback, Sam:
Brownmiller, Susan:
Bruen, Melissa:
Bush, George W.:
C
Carder, Angela:
Carpenter, Laura:
Carr, Mary Alice:
celebrity:
Center for American Women and Politics:
Center for Reproductive Rights:
Center for Women Policy Studies:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
cervical cancer vaccine:
cesarean sections:
chastity: as alternative to porn; as “empowerment”; idealized; as innate ; legislating; publications ; womanhood via
Chaudhry, Lakshmi:
children, moral:
child “supermodels”:
choice, sex as a:
Choice USA:
Choosing the Best Path:
Churchill, Jolene:
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute:
Collins, Patricia Hill:
Community-Based Abstinence Education Program (CBAE):
compassion:
comprehensive sex education:
Concerned Women for America:
Conner, Tara:
contraception: abstinence-taught teens against; banning education on; and birth rate drops; education; emergency ; misinformation on ; pharmacists’ refusal to dispense ; as provoking promiscuity; refusing emergency; statistics; use by secondary virgins
control:
Corinna, Heather:
Cosgrove, John:
Cosmopolitan:
criminalizing abuse victims:
crisis centers:
Crouse, Janice Shaw:
Cytotec:
D
d’Addario, John:
“damaged goods”:
dancing, dirty:
date rape:
dating: arguments against; debunking fears of; father/ daughter; “hookup culture” statistics
debasement, pornographic:
Deep Throat:
Deltano, Keith:
Deni, Teresa Carr:
DePetro, John:
depression:
desirability: commodifying underage- ; of naiveté; of purity porn stars
desire:
Details:
Dial, Ashley:
Dickens, Morgan:
Dobson, James:
dolls, love:
dominance:
double standards: in alcohol consumption ; protection/punishment- ; of sexual “dirtiness”; see also virgin/whore dichotomy
drinking, as rape risk:
Drinking Liberally:
Ducat, Stephen J.:
Duplantis, Lloyd:
Durham, M. Gigi:
E
Eden, Dawn:
education: comprehensive sex; equality in; of friends/peers; sex as “dirty” in; on violence toward women; see also abstinence-only education
electron-Blue:
emergency contraception (EC):
emotions:
empowerment:
equality, as blamed for rape:
ethics. See morality
evangelicals, Christian:
Evert, Jason:
F
Facebook:
Fair Fund, Inc.:
fame:
Family Research Council:
family values:
Family Violence Prevention Fund:
fashion: Abercrombie & Fitch boycott; infantalizing; schoolgirl
FDA:
federal funding: for Abstinence Clearinghouse; for abstinence education; for crisis pregnancy centers; for purity balls ; state refusal of
Female Chauvinist Pigs (Levy):
female genital mutilation:
The Female Thing (Kipnis):
femininity:
feminism: blogs; feminists against abstinence education; as feminizing boys; as harming morality; porn informed by; pro-sex; vs. raunch culture; scapegoating; treatises on rape; as used by the virginity movement; virginity movement against
Feministing.com: abstinence education discussion on; as activism forum ; anti-choice activists against ; electron-Blue; Friedman, Ann ; Martin, Courtney; reaction to this book on
feminization:
femiphobia:
fetal protection laws:
fetishizing women:
Figueroa, Lisseth:
Filipovic, Jill:
Focus on the Family:
forgiveness:
foster care:
Francis, Joe:
Fredell, Janie:
Friedman, Ann:
Friedman, Jaclyn:
Friends:
Full Frontal Feminism (Valenti):
G
Gardasil:
gay sex:
gender roles, traditional: in abstinence education; aggression vs. passivity; disdain for the feminine in; feminism as undermining; feminist rhetoric for; feminization of boys; legislating; media stereotyping of; paternal morality; at purity balls; as purity myth’s goal ; returning to; sex as allowable in; vs. sexual interest
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