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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hitting Puberty | |
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| Amazon Women on the Moon: Remembering Femininity in the Video Age Winter 1996 | |
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| Rubyfruit Jungle Gym: An Annotated Bibliography of the Lesbian Young Adult Novel Winter 1998 | |
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| Stormin' Norma: Why I Love the Queen of Teen Winter 1998 | |
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| Sister Outsider Headbanger: On Being a Black Feminist Metalhead Fall 2001 | |
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| Bloodletting: Female Adolescence in Modern Horror Films Summer 2003 | |
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| The, Like, Downfall of the English Language: A Fluffy Word with a Hefty Problem Summer 2003 | |
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| Teen Mean Fighting Machine: Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls? Winter 2005 | |
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| Ladies and Gentlemen: Femininity, Masculinity, and Identity | |
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| Urinalysis: On Standing Up to Pee Fall 1997 | |
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| The Collapsible Woman: Cultural Response to Rape and Sexual Abuse Winter 1999 | |
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| The Princess and the Prankster: Two Performers Take on Art, Ethnicity, and Sexuality Fall 2002 | |
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| What Happens to a Dyke Deferred? The Trouble with Hasbians and the Phenomenon of Banishment Fall 2002 | |
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| On Language: You Guys Fall 2002 | |
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| Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Dresses the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels Fall 2004 | |
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| Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down: On Getting Dressed in Jerusalem Winter 2005 | |
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| Screen Butch Blues: The Celluloid Fate of Female Masculinity BITCHfest 2006 | |
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| Dead Man Walking: Masculinity's Troubling Persistence BITCHfest 2006 | |
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| The F Word | |
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| And Now a Word from Our Sponsors: Feminism for Sale Fall 1998 | |
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| I Can't Believe It's Not Feminism! On the Feminists Who Aren't Spring 2002 | |
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| Celebrity Jeopardy: The Perils of Feminist Fame Winter 2003 | |
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| Unnatural Selection: Questioning Science's Gender Bias Spring 2004 | |
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| On Language: Choice Spring 2004 | |
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| Laugh Riot: Feminism and the Problem of Women's Comedy Bitchfest 2006 | |
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| Girl, Unreconstructed: Why Girl Power Is Bad for Feminism Bitchfest 2006 | |
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| Desire: Love, Sex, and Marketing | |
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| In Re-Mission: Why Does Redbook Want to Keep Us on Our Backs? Spring 1997 | |
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| Hot and Bothered: Unmasking Male Lust Fall 1997 | |
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| I Heard It Through the Loveline: And Misinformation Just Might Make Me Lose My Mind Spring 1998 | |
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| The New Sexual Deviant: Mapping Virgin Territory Winter 2000 | |
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| Envy, a Love Story: Queering Female Jealousy Summer 2001 | |
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| Fan/Tastic Voyage: Rewriting Gender in the Wide, Wild World of Slash Fiction Spring 2003 | |
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| Hot for Teacher: On the Erotics of Pedagogy Spring 2004 | |
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| Holy Fratrimony: Male Bonding and the New Homosociality Summer 2004 | |
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| Domestic Arrangements | |
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| The Paradox of Martha Stewart: Goddess, Desperate Spouse-Seeker, or Feminist Role Model? Fall 1996 | |
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| Double Life: Everyone Wants to See Your Breasts-Until Your Baby Needs Them Fall 2002 | |
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| Queer and Pleasant Danger: What's Up with the Mainstreaming of Gay Parents? Fall 2003 | |
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| Mother Inferior: How Hollywood Keeps Single Moms in Their Place Fall 2003 | |
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| Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout Winter 2005 | |
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| Beauty Myths and Body Projects | |
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| Plastic Passion: Tori Spelling's Breasts and Other Results of Cosmetic Darwinism Fall 1998 | |
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| Vulva Goldmine: The New Culture of Vaginal Reconstruction Winter 2000 | |
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| Are Fat Suits the New Blackface? Hollywood's Big New Minstrel Show Winter 2002 | |
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| Busting the Beige Barrier: The Limits of "Ethnic" Cosmetics Fall 2004 | |
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| Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already: An Open Letter to Carnie Wilson Fall 2003 | |
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| Beyond the Bearded Lady: Outgrowing the Shame of Female Facial Hair Spring 2005 | |
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| Confronting the Mainstream | |
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| Pratt-fall: Ten Things to Hate About Jane Winter 1999 | |
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| Marketing Miss Right: Meet the Single Girl, Twenty-First-Century Style Winter 2000 | |
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| The God of Big Trends: Book Publishing's Ethnic Cool Quotient Spring 2002 | |
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| The Black and the Beautiful: Searching for Signs of Black Life in Prime-Time Comedy Summer 2002 | |
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| I Kissed a Girl: The Evolution of the Prime-Time Lesbian Clinch Winter 2004 | |
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| XXX Offender: Reality Porn and the Rise of Humilitainment Fall 2004 | |
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| Bias Cut: Old Racism as New Fashion Fall 2004 | |
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| Talking Back: Activism and Pop Culture | |
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| Please Don't Feed the Models: A Day in the Life of an Urban guerrilla Fall 1998 | |
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| Refuse and Resist with Jean Kilbourne: How to Counteract Ad Messages Winter 2001 | |
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| Full Frontal Offense: Bringing Abortion Rights to the Ts Winter 2005 | |
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| Meet Anne: A Spunky, Adventurous American Girl Spring 2005 | |
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| How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media: A Feminist Advocacy Guide Bitchfest 2006 | |
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| The BiTCHfest Resource List | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |