Read The Purity Myth Online
Authors: Jessica Valenti
Tags: #Health & Fitness, #Sexuality, #Self-Help, #Personal Growth, #Self-Esteem, #Social Science, #Feminism & Feminist Theory, #Women's Studies
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism,
edited by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman. $16.95, 1-58005-067-0. An insight into a new generation of brilliant, outspoken women of color—how they are speaking to the concerns of a new feminism, and their place in it.
Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image,
edited by Ophira Edut, foreword by Rebecca Walker. $15.95, 1-58005-108-1. Filled with honesty and humor, this groundbreaking anthology offers stories by women who have chosen to ignore, subvert, or redefine the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home in their bodies.