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In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms . , Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture... read more
First Sentence
Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment.
Table of Contents
I. Forward
II. Introduction
III. Chapter 1: Hitting Puberty
1. Amazon Women on the Moon: Remembering Femininity in the Video Age
2. Rubyfruit Jungle Gym: An Annotated Bibliography of the Lesbian Young Adult Novel
3. Stormin' Norma: Why I Love the Queen of Teen
4. Sister Outsider Headbanger: On Being a Black Feminist Metalhead
5. Bloodletting: Female Adolescence in Modern Horror Films
6. The, Like, Downfall of the English Language: A Fluffy Word with a Hefty Problem
7. Teen Mean Fighting Machine: Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls?
VI. Chapter 2: Ladies and Gentlemen: Femininity, Masculinity, and Identity
8. Urinalysis: On Standing Up to Pee
9. The Collapsible Woman: Cultural Response to Rape and Sexual Abuse
10. The Princess and the Prankster: Two Performers Take on Art, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
11. What Happens to a Dyke Deferred? The Trouble with Hasbians and the Phenomenon of Banishment
12. On Language: You Guys
13. Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Dresses the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels
14. Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down: On Getting Dressed in Jerusalem
15. Screen Butch Blues: The Celluloid Fate of Female Masculinity
16. Dead Man Walking: Masculinity's Troubling Persistence
V. Chapter 3: The F-Word
17. And Now a Word from Our Sponsors: Feminism for Sale
18. I Can't Believe It's Not Feminism! On the Feminists Who Aren't
19. Celebrity Jeopardy: The Perils of Feminist Fame
20. Unnatural Selection: Questioning Science's Gender Bias
21. On Language: Choice
22. Laugh Riot: Feminism and the Problem of Women's Comedy
23. Girl, Unreconstructed: Why Girl Power Is Bad for Feminism
VI. Chapter 4: Desire: Love, Sex and Marketing
24. In Re-Mission: Why Does Redbook Want to Keep Us on Our Backs?
25. Hot and Bothered: Unmasking Male Lust
26. I Heard It Through the Loveline: And Misinformation Just Might Make Me Lose My Mind
27. The New Sexual Deviant: Mapping Virgin Territory
28. Envy, a Love Story: Queering Female Jealousy
29. Fan/Tastic Voyage: Rewriting Gender in the Wide, Wide World of Slash Fiction
30. Hot for Teacher: On the Erotics of Pedagogy
31. Holy Fratimony: Male Bonding and the New Homosociality
V. Chater 5: Domestic Arrangements
32. The Paradox of Martha Stewart: Goddess, Desperate Spouse-Seeker, or Feminist Role Model?
33. Double Life: Everyone Wants to See Your Breasts--Until Your Baby Needs Them
34. Queer and Pleasant Danger: What's Up with the Mainstreaming of Gay Parents?
35. Mother Inferior: How Hollywood Keeps Single Moms in Their Place
36. Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout
VI. Chapter 6: Beauty Myths and Body Projects
37. Plastic Passion: Tori Spelling's Breasts and Other Results of Cosmetic Darwinism
38. Vulva Goldmine: The New Culture of Vaginal Reconstruction
39. Are Fat Suits the New Blackface? Hollywood's Big New Minstrel Show
40. Busting the Beige Barrier: The Limits of "Ethnic" Cosmetics
41. Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already: An Open Letter to Carnie Wilson
42. Beyond the Bearded Lady: Outgrowing the Shame of Female Facial Hair
VII. Chater 7: Confronting the Mainstream
43. Pratt-fall: Ten Things to Hate About Jane
44. Marketing Miss Right: Meet the Single Girl, Twenty-First-Century Style
45. The God of Big Trends: Book Publishing's Ethnic Cool Quotient
46. The Black and the Beautiful: Searching for Signs of Black Life in Prime-Time Comedy
47. I Kissed a Girl: The Evolution of the Prime-Time Lesbian Clinch
48. XXX Offender: Reality Porn and the Rise of Humilitainment
49. Bias Cut: Old Racism as New Fashion
VIII. Chapter 8: Talking Back: Activism and Pop Culture
50. Please Don't Feed the Models: A Day in the Life of an Urban Guerilla
51. Refuse and Resist with Jean Kilbourne: How to Counteract Ad Messages
52. Full Frontal Offense: Bringing Abortion Rights to the Ts
53. Meet Anne: A Spunky, Adventurous American Girl
54. How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media: A Feminist Advocacy Guide
IX. The BITCHfest Resource List
X. About the Contributors
XI. Acknowledgments
Authors & Contributors
- Lisa Jervis (Editor) - Rubyfruit Jungle Gym; Hot and Bothered; Prat-fall
- Andi Zeisler (Editor) - Amazon Women on the Moon; Stormin' Norma; Laugh Riot; Plastic Passion; Prat-fall; Marketing Miss Right
Other Contributors:
- Margaret Cho (Foreword)
- Keidra Chaney (Contributor) - Sister Outsider Headbanger
- Tammy Oler (Contributor) - Bloodlettng
- Gus Andrews (Contributor) - The, Like, Downfall of the English Language
- Gabrielle Moss (Contributor) - Teen Mean Fighting Machine
- Leigh Shoemaker (Contributor) - Urinalysis
- Vanessa Veselka (Contributor) - The Collapsible Woman
- Karen Eng (Contributor) - The Princess and the Prankster
- Athena Douris (Contributor) - What Happens to a Dyke Deferred?
- Diane Anderson-Minshall (Contributor) - What Happens to a Dyke Deferred?; I Kissed a Girl
- Audrey Bilger (Contributor) - On Language: You Guys
- Julia Serano (Contributor) - Skirt Chasers
- Danya Ruttenberg (Contributor) - Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down
- Keely Savoie (Contributor) - Screen Butch Blues; Unnatural Selection
- Brendan O'Sullivan (Contributor) - Dead Man Walking
- Rita Hao (Contributor) - And Now a Word from Our Sponsors; Prat-fall
- Julie Craig (Contributor) - I Can't Believe It's Not Feminism!
- Rachel Fudge (Contributor) - Celebrity Jeopardy; Girl, Unreconstructed; Bias Cut
- Summer Wood (Contributor) - On Language: Choice
- Amy Harter (Contributor) - In Re-Mission
- Heather Seggel (Contributor) - I Heard It Through the Loveline
- Carson Brown (Contributor) - The New Sexual Deviant
- Anna Mills (Contributor) - Envy, A Love Story
- Noy Thrupkaew (Contributor) - Fan/Tastic Voyage; The God of Big Trends
- Jennifer Maher (Contributor) - Hot for Teacher
- Don Romesburg (Contributor) - Holy Fratrimony
- Jennifer Newens (Contributor) - The Paradox of Martha Stewart
- Lisa Moricoli Latham (Contributor) - Double Life
- Margaret Price (Contributor) - Queer and Pleasant Danger
- Monica Nolan (Contributor) - Mother Inferior
- Sarah McCormick (Contributor) - Hoovers and Shakers
- Julia Scheeres (Contributor) - Vulva Goldmine
- Marisa Meltzer (Contributor) - Are Fat Suits the New Blackface?
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Contributor) - Busting the Beige Barrier
- Beth Berstein (Contributor) - Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already
- Matilda St. John (Contributor) - Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already
- Aimee Dowl (Contributor) - Beyond the Bearded Lady
- Lori L. Tharps (Contributor) - The Black and the Beautiful
- Shauna Schwartz (Contributor) - XXX Offender
- Kathy Bruin (Contributor) - Please Don't Feed the Models
- Laura Barcella (Contributor) - Refuse and Resist with Jean Kilbourne
- Rebecca Hyman (Contributor) - Full Frontal Offense
- Anne Elizabeth Moore (Contributor) - Meet Anne
- Jennifer L. Pozner (Contributor) - How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media
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