- Website: http://www.jessicavalenti.com
Jessica is a 30 year-old feminist writer from New York. She has a Masters degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and has worked with organizations such as NARAL Pro-Choice America, Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), Planned Parenthood, the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and Ms. magazine. She is also a co-founder of the REAL hot 100, a campaign to highlight the important work that young women are doing across the country.
Jessica is the editor of Beijing Betrayed, a global monitoring report on women's progress worldwide and a contributing author to We Don't Need Another Wave and Single State of the Union (Seal Press). Her writing has appeared in Ms. magazine, Salon, The Guardian (UK), Bitch, Alternet, The Scholar & Feminist and Guernica.
In April 2007, Jessica was named one of ELLE magazine's IntELLEgentsia.
She is the author of two books, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters, and He's a Stud, She's a Slut...and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know. She's also a co-editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Her newest book, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women, will be out in Spring 2009.
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