Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti (2014)

Jessica Valenti (born November 1, 1978 in New York City ) is an American feminist blogger , author and journalist . She founded the blog Feministing in 2004 and is the author or co-author of several books on feminist topics.

life and work

Valenti grew up in Long Island City, Queens , New York City in an Italian-American family. Her father was a Buddhist . Valenti holds a Masters in Gender Studies from Rutgers University . She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Andrew Golis and their daughter .

Valenti founded the Feministing blog in 2004 while working for the National Organization for Women's Legal Defense Fund (now Legal Momentum) . Homa Khaleeli writes in The Guardian's top 100 women that the blog brought feminism online and triggered an “explosion” of new blogs and discussion forums. This impulse from the bloggers caused activist groups, workshops and campaigns to emerge and, at a time when feminism had already been declared dead, triggered a new period of prosperity. According to Khaleeli, Valenti also experienced the dark side of online feminism by being harassed online and even receiving threats of rape and death, whereupon she changed apartment and cell phone number.

Valenti has featured in feminist magazine Ms. , The Nation , the Washington Post , Talking Points memo blog TPMCafe , Alternet, and the Guardian .

The lawyer Ann Althouse criticized Feministing 2006 for the partly sexualised content. In an article in the Huffington Post , Erin Matson of the National Organization for Women commented that this controversy would "warm up an old debate within the feminist movement: is public sexuality empowering or harmful to women?"

In 2008 Valenti published Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape with Jaclyn Friedman and He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know and in 2009 The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women .

Valenti left feministing in February 2011 because it wanted to remain a site for younger feminists. Since then she has written several book chapters, including a. for Courtney E. Martins and J. Courtney Sullivan's books Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists (2010), Melody Berger's book We Don't Need Another Wave (2008) and Diane Mapes' single State of the Union (2007). For the Guardian she is one of the "Top 100 inspiring women". Your online activism has pushed feminism into the 21st century. She is a columnist for the Guardian US.

In 2012 Valenti published Why Have Kids . According to a review in the Daily Beast, the book takes a critical look at motherhood and asks why intelligent women should choose to have children in the first place.

In July 2016, Valenti announced her temporary departure from social media after threats of rape and death against her five-year-old daughter.

Books

• Full Frontal Feminism. Seal Press, Berkeley 2007, ISBN 978-0-7867-5048-1 .
• He's a stud, she's a slut. Seal Press, Berkeley 2008, ISBN 978-1-58005-245-0 .
• Yes Means Yes. Seal Press, Berkeley 2008, ISBN 978-1-58005-257-3 .
• The Purity Myth. Seal Press, Berkeley 2009, ISBN 978-0-7867-4466-4 .
• Why Have Kids? New Harvest, 2012, ISBN 978-0-547-89261-0 .

Web links

• Official website of Jessica Valenti
• Profile and article in The Guardian
• Feministing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dakota Lane: Vows: Jessica Valenti and Andrew Golis. The New York Times , September 15, 2009, accessed July 14, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Feminist writer and author Jessica Valenti joins Guardian US. The Guardian , March 12, 2014, accessed July 14, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Valenti, Jessica. Interview by Rebecca Traister. Tough titties . April 24, 2007.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Homa Khaleeli: Jessica Valenti in "Top 100 women: writing and academia". The Guardian , March 8, 2011, accessed July 14, 2015 . 
5. ↑ "Where women express themselves, it creates hatred". In: sueddeutsche.de. May 27, 2016, accessed August 30, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Profile of Jessica Valenti. Women's Media Center, archived from the original on January 1, 2012 ; accessed on July 14, 2015 . Jessica Valenti: Jessica Valenti . In: The Nation . Jessica Valenti: For women in America, equality is still an illusion . In: The Washington Post , February 21, 2010. Jessica Valenti: The fake feminism of Sarah Palin . In: The Washington Post , May 30, 2010. Jessica Valenti: Anti-Choicers Switching Up Strategy? . In: TPM Cafe , November 19, 2008. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Jessica Valenti: Stories by Jessica Valenti . In: Alternet . Jessica Valenti: Jessica Valenti, columnist and staff writer for Guardian US . In: The Guardian , August 21, 2008. 
    
    
    
     
    
    
7. ↑ Liz Funk: Feministing: Feminist? Or Just -Ing? . In: The Huffington Post , October 12, 2006. 
8. ↑ Jessica Valenti: How the web became a sexists' paradise . In: The Guardian , April 6, 2007. 
9. ↑ Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman: Yes means yes! - Visions of female sexual power & a world without rape . Seal Press, Berkeley, Calif. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7867-2705-6 .
10. ↑ Jessica Valenti: He's a stud, she's a slut and 49 other double standards every woman should know . Seal Press, Berkeley, CA 2008, ISBN 978-1-58005-245-0 .
11. ↑ Jessica Valenti: The purity myth. How America's obsession with virginity is hurting young women . Seal Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7867-4466-4 .
12. ↑ Jessica Valenti: Farewell, Feministing. February 2, 2011, accessed July 14, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Jessica Valenti: Click. When we knew we were feminists . Ed .: Courtney E. Martin, J. Courtney Sullivan. Seal Press, Berkeley, Calif. 2010, ISBN 978-1-58005-285-6 , I Was an Obnoxious Teenage Feminist.
14. ↑ Jessica Valenti: We don't need another wave. Dispatches from the next generation of feminists . Ed .: Melody Berger. Seal Press, Emeryville, CA 2006, ISBN 1-58005-182-0 , You're a Feminist. Deal.
15. ↑ Jessica Valenti: Single state of the union. Single women speak out on life, love, and the pursuit of happiness . Ed .: Diane Mapes. Seal Press, Emeryville, CA 2007, ISBN 978-1-58005-202-3 , The Taming of the Threw.
16. ↑ Jessica Valenti: Why have kids? - A new mom explores the truth about parenting and happiness . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston 2012, ISBN 978-0-547-89261-0 .
17. ↑ Jesse Ellison: Jessica Valenti Asks 'Why Have Kids?' in New Book. The Daily Beast , September 5, 2012, accessed July 14, 2015 . 
18. ↑ Diana Crandall: Feminist columnist Jessica Valenti quits social media after trolls threaten to rape her 5-year-old daughter. Daily News , July 27, 2016, accessed July 28, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Jessica Chasmar: Guardian columnist quits Twitter over 'rape and death threat' against 5-year-old daughter. The Washington Times , July 27, 2016, accessed July 28, 2016 . 
20. ↑ Anthony Colangelo: Popular feminist writer quits social media after rape threats directed at daughter. The New Daily, July 28, 2016, accessed July 28, 2016 .