Jennifer Baumgardner
Forfatter af Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
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Jennifer Baumgardner (pictured pregnant on the cover with director Gillian Aldrich) is the producer/creator of the award-winning film I Had an Abortion. She is the coauthor (with Amy Richards) of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism vis mere (both Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Her most recent book is Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics (FSG, 2007). She writes regularly for women's magazines like Glamour, Elle, and Redbook, as well as more political outlets such as the Nation, Harper's, and NPR's All Things Considered. She lives in New York City vis mindre
Værker af Jennifer Baumgardner
What is Feminism? 4 eksemplarer
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Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women (2010) — Bidragyder — 99 eksemplarer
Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Single Women (2005) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
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The most valuable aspect of the first part was the discussion of the pro-voice movement. Pro-voice is the idea that it should be okay to talk about abortion as a bad thing, as something that we should work to decrease the frequency of, without being painted as being against abortion. It should be okay for a woman to have conflicting emotions about her own abortion without being shamed for it. It should be okay to say, "I believe that the fetus is a person, but I still believe in the right to choose". In fact, not only should all of these thoughts be okay to have, discussing them out in the open is the only way to get beyond the caustic dichotomy that defines the abortion debate today. Sadly, since this discussion covered only a chapter, Baumgardner did not go into much depth.
The rest of the book is portraits and stories of women who got abortions. While not as deep as the stories in [b:Choice True Stories of Birth Contraception Infertility Adoption Single Parenthood and Abortion|1351728|Choice True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion|Karen E. Bender|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1336956623s/1351728.jpg|1341413] -- that would be difficult when these stories are only a few pages each -- hearing the real stories of women who chose abortion is always an important reminder of how diverse and complicated these decisions are.… (mere)