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  1. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the subjects of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 weeks ago.

    • Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > Women
    • Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > Culture
    • Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Women's Studies > Feminist Theory
    • Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Media Studies
    • Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Popular Culture
    ( see all changes to this book’s subjects )
  2. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the classification of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Monday, January 18 2010.

    • changed the Dewey Classification: 305.42097309049
    ( see all changes to this book’s classification )
  3. Timothy Gray

    Timothy Gray approved Hilary B’s request to change the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 22 2009.

    • Edited a contributor: Lisa Jervis: Rubyfruit Jungle Gym (Primary Editor)
    • Added a contributor: Andi Zeisler: Amazon Women on the Moon; Stormin' Norma (Primary Editor)
    • Added a contributor: Margaret Cho: (Foreword)
    • Added a contributor: Keidra Chaney: Sister Outsider Headbanger (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Tammy Oler: Bloodlettng (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Gus Andrews: The, Like, Downfall of the English Language (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Gabrielle Moss: Teen Mean Fighting Machine (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Leigh Shoemaker: Urinalysis (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Vanessa Veselka: The Collapsible Woman (Contributor)
    ( see Timothy Gray’s edits | report abuse )
  4. Timothy Gray

    Timothy Gray approved Hilary B’s request to change the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 22 2009.

    • Added a contributor: Lisa Jervis: (Primary Editor)
    ( see Timothy Gray’s edits | report abuse )
  5. Hilary B

    Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 8 2009.

    • Edited a contributor: Julia Serano: Skirt Chasers (NoneContributor)
    • Edited a contributor: Jennifer Newens: The Paradox of Martha Stewart (NoneContributor)
    • Edited a contributor: Lisa Moricoli Latham: Double Life (NoneContributor)
    ( see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
  6. Hilary B

    Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 8 2009.

    • Edited a contributor: Lisa Jervis: Rubyfruit Jungle GymGym; Hot and Bothered; Prat-fall (Primary Editor)
    • Edited a contributor: Andi Zeisler: Amazon Women on the Moon; Stormin' NormaNorma; Laugh Riot; Plastic Passion; Prat-fall; Marketing Miss Right (Primary Editor)
    • Added a contributor: Karen Eng: The Princess and the Prankster (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Athena Douris: What Happens to a Dyke Deferred? (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Diane Anderson-Minshall: What Happens to a Dyke Deferred?; I Kissed a Girl (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Audrey Bilger: On Language: You Guys (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Julia Serano: Skirt Chasers (None)
    • Added a contributor: Danya Ruttenberg: Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Keely Savoie: Screen Butch Blues; Unnatural Selection (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Brendan O'Sullivan: Dead Man Walking (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Rita Hao: And Now a Word from Our Sponsors; Prat-fall (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Julie Craig: I Can't Believe It's Not Feminism! (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Rachel Fudge: Celebrity Jeopardy; Girl, Unreconstructed; Bias Cut (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Summer Wood: On Language: Choice (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Amy Harter: In Re-Mission (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Heather Seggel: I Heard It Through the Loveline (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Carson Brown: The New Sexual Deviant (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Anna Mills: Envy, A Love Story (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Noy Thrupkaew: Fan/Tastic Voyage; The God of Big Trends (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Jennifer Maher: Hot for Teacher (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Don Romesburg: Holy Fratrimony (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Jennifer Newens: The Paradox of Martha Stewart (None)
    • Added a contributor: Lisa Moricoli Latham: Double Life (None)
    • Added a contributor: Margaret Price: Queer and Pleasant Danger (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Monica Nolan: Mother Inferior (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Sarah McCormick: Hoovers and Shakers (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Julia Scheeres: Vulva Goldmine (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Marisa Meltzer: Are Fat Suits the New Blackface? (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Busting the Beige Barrier (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Beth Berstein: Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Matilda St. John: Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Aimee Dowl: Beyond the Bearded Lady (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Lori L. Tharps: The Black and the Beautiful (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Shauna Schwartz: XXX Offender (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Kathy Bruin: Please Don't Feed the Models (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Laura Barcella: Refuse and Resist with Jean Kilbourne (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Rebecca Hyman: Full Frontal Offense (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Anne Elizabeth Moore: Meet Anne (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Jennifer L. Pozner: How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media (Contributor)
    ( see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
  7. Hilary B

    Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 8 2009.

    • Edited a contributor: Lisa Jervis: Rubyfruit Jungle Gym (Primary Editor)
    • Added a contributor: Andi Zeisler: Amazon Women on the Moon; Stormin' Norma (Primary Editor)
    • Added a contributor: Margaret Cho: (Foreword)
    • Added a contributor: Keidra Chaney: Sister Outsider Headbanger (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Tammy Oler: Bloodlettng (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Gus Andrews: The, Like, Downfall of the English Language (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Gabrielle Moss: Teen Mean Fighting Machine (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Leigh Shoemaker: Urinalysis (Contributor)
    • Added a contributor: Vanessa Veselka: The Collapsible Woman (Contributor)
    Timothy Gray approved this request. ( see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
  8. Hilary B

    Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 8 2009.

    • Added a contributor: Lisa Jervis: (Primary Editor)
    Timothy Gray approved this request. ( see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
  9. Hilary B

    Hilary B edited the table of contents of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 8 2009.

    • 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

    ( see all changes to this book’s table of contents | see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
  10. Hilary B

    Hilary B edited the first sentence of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Tuesday, December 8 2009.

    • Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment.
    ( see all changes to this book’s first sentence | see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
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