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They've done so with humor, vision, fire, and guts, as this book of selections from their first decade proves. Read it, learn from it, enjoy it, argue with it, revel in it.". BITCHfest is… More...
They've done so with humor, vision, fire, and guts, as this book of selections from their first decade proves. Read it, learn from it, enjoy it, argue with it, revel in it.". BITCHfest is the greatest hits, and reading them is like hanging out with the smartest people you know.". The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Bitchfest by Andi Zeisler, Lisa Jervis "Bitch" was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple 'zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. This work offers an assortment of the provocative essays, reporting, rants and raves from the magazine's first 10 years. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description This work talks about a 10-year retrospective from the Grande Dame of pop cult feminism. It presents the best of the best from the world's favourite alternative 'zine. In the wake of "Sassy" and as an alternative to the staid reportage of "Ms., Bitch" was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple 'zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply thoughtful about the way the pop landscape reflects and impacts women's lives, "Bitch" grew to be a popular, full-scale magazine with a readership that stretched worldwide. Today, it stands as the touchstone of hip, young feminist thought, regarding with wit and irreverence the way pop culture informs feminism - and vice versa - and encouraging readers to think critically about the messages lurking behind television shows, movies, music, books and blogs. "Bitchfest" offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants and raves from the magazine's first 10 years - along with new pieces specially written for the collection.Smart, nuanced, cranky, outrageous and clear-eyed, the anthology covers everything from an analysis of pre-scandal Martha Stewart to a more recent critical look at the "gayby boom"; from a time line of black women on sitcoms to an analysis of fat suits as the new blackface; from an attempt to fashion a feminist vulgarity to a reclamation of female virginity. It's a recent history of feminist pop culture and an arrow towards feminism's future. Notes Subtitled, Ten Years Of Cultural Criticism From The Pages Of Bitch Magazine. Author Biography Lisa Jervis is publisher of Bitch and a regular lecturer on feminism and the media. Andi Zeisler is Bitch's editorial/creative director. Table of Contents Forword Margaret Cho Introduction CHAPTER 1 Hitting Puberty Amazon Women on the Moon: Remembering Femininity in the Video Age , Andi Zeisler, Winter 1996 Rubyfruit Jungle Gym: An Annotated Bibliography of the Lesbian Young Adult Novel , Lisa Jervis, Winter 1998 Stormin'' Norma: Why I Love the Queen of Teen , Andi Zeisler, Winter 1998 Sister Outsider Headbander: On Being a Black Feminist Metalhead , Keidra Chaney, Fall 2001 Bloodletting: Female Adolescence in Modern Horror Films , Tammy Oler, Summer 2003 The, Like, Downfall of the English Language: A Fluffy Word with a Hefty Problem , Gus Andrews, Summer 2003 Teen Mean Fighting Machine: Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls? , Gabrielle Moss, Winter 2005 CHAPTER 2 Ladies and Gentlemen: Femininity, Masculinity, and Identity Urinalysis: On Standing Up to Pee , Leigh Shoemaker, Fall 1997 The Collapsible Woman: Cultural Response to Rape and Sexual Abuse , Vanessa Veselka, Winter 1999 The Princess and the Prankster, Two Performers Take on Art, Ethnicity, and Sexuality , Karen Eng, Fall 2002 What Happens to a Dyke Deferred?: The Trouble with Hasbians and the Phenomenon of Banishment , Athena Douris and Diane Anderson-Minshall, Fall 2002 On Language: You Guys , Audrey Bilger, Fall 2002 Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Dresses the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels , Julia Serano, Fall 2004 Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down: On Getting Dressed in Jerusalem , Danya Ruttenberg, Winter 2005 Screen Butch Blues: The Celluloid Fate of Female Masculinity , Keely Savoie, BITCHfest 2006 Dead Man Walking: Masculinity''s Troubling Persistence , Brendan O''Sullivan, BITCHfest 2006 CHAPTER 3 The F Word And Now a Word from Our Sponsors: Feminism for Sale , Rita Hao, Fall 1998 I Can''t Believe It''s Not Feminism! On the Feminists Who Aren''t , Julie Craig, Spring 2002 Celebrity Jeopardy: The Perils of Feminist Fame , Rachel Fudge, Winter 2003 Unnatural Selection: Questioning Science''s Gender Bias , Keely Savoie, Spring 2004 On Language: Choice , Summer Wood, Spring 2004 Laugh Riot: Feminism and the Problem of Women''s Comedy , Andi Zeisler, BITCHfest 2006 Girl, Unreconstructed: Why Girl Power Is Bad for Feminism , Rachel Fudge, BITCHfest 2006 CHAPTER 4 Desire: Love, Sex, and Marketing In Re-Mission: Why Does Redbook Want to Keep Us on Our Backs? , Amy Harter, Spring 1997 Hot and Bothered: Unmasking Male Lust , Lisa Jervis, Fall 1997 I Heard It Through the Loveline: And Misinformation Just Might Make Me Lose My Mind , Heather Seggel, Spring 1998 The New Sexual Deviant: Mapping Virgin Territory , Carson Brown, Winter 2000 Envy, a Love Story: Queering Female Jealousy , Anna Mills, Summer 2001 Fan/Tastic Voyage: Rewriting Gender in the Wide, Wild World of Slash Fiction , Noy Thrupkaew, Spring 2003 Hot for Teacher: On the Erotics of Pedagogy , Jennifer Maher, Spring 2004 Holy Fratrimony: Male Bonding and the New Homosociality , Don Romesburg, Summer 2004 CHAPTER 5 Domestic Arrangements The Paradox of Martha Stewart: Goddess, Desperate Spouse-Seeker, or Feminist Role Model? , Jennifer Newens, Fall 1996 Double Life: Everyone Wants to See Your Breasts--Until Your Baby Needs Them , Lisa Moricoli Latham, Fall 2002 Queer and Pleasant Danger: What''s Up with the Mainstreaming of Gay Parents? , Margaret Price, Fall 2003 Mother Inferior: How Hollywood Keeps Single Moms in Their Place , Monica Nolan, Fall 2003 Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout , Sarah McCormic, Winter 2005 CHAPTER 6 Beauty Myths and Body Projects Plastic Passion: Tori Spelling''s Breasts and Other Results of Cosmetic Darwinism , Andi Zeisler, Fall 1998 Vulva Goldmine: The New Culture of Vaginal Reconstruction , Julia Scheeres, Winter 2000 Are Fat Suits the New Blackface? Hollywood''s Big New Minstrel Show , Marisa Meltzer, Winter 2002 Busting the Beige Barrier: The Limits of "Ethnic" Cosmetics , Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Fall 2004 Your Stomach''s the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already: An Open Letter to Carnie Wilson , Beth Bernstein and Matilda St. John, Fall 2003 Beyond the Bearded Lady: Outgrowing the Shame of Female Facial Hair , Aim Review "We love Bitch and think BITCHfest is an essential component of any feminist's library." --Guerrilla Girls "As delicious as a day spent with your funniest, smartest friend, this collection is also a call to action, inspiring readers to fight the fear of female power. As the many writers in here show, few wrongs are righted without a bitchfest first." --Cristina Page, author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex "In a society as celebrity-obsessed and fad-saturated as ours, we ignore pop culture at our peril. Hurray for the women of Bitch, who raised their banner of intelligence right at the intersection of pop culture and feminism. They've done so with humor, vision, fire, and guts, as this book of selections from their first decade proves. Read it, learn from it, enjoy it, argue with it, revel in it." --Robin Morgan "With humor and insight Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler, and their contributors explore what it means to be female, a feminist, a lover of pop culture, and that other thing that rhymes with rich but is so much more fun." --Ariel Levy, author of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture "Bitch is my favorite magazine. It makes feminism fun, relevant and approachable--it's like the Marlo Thomas of our time." --Joel Stein, columnist, Los Angeles Times "We were working at Ms. magazine in 1996 when a xeroxed pamphlet arrived at the office bearing the name Bitch. We opened the zine and found what we'd been fearing didn't exist: feminist writing that was funny, engaged with pop culture, and yet intellectually rigorous. Eureka! BITCHfest is the greatest hits, and reading them is like hanging out with the smartest people you know." --Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, co-authors of Manifesta "Essential reading for the modern woman." --Margaret Cho "This often mind-stretching, occasionally predictable and generally entertaining collection of articles from Bitch magazine has something for every feminist, postfeminist and reactionary. Bitch was founded in 1996 in response to 'post-feminism' by 'freshly minted liberal arts graduates with crappy day jobs and a serious media jones.' With refreshing depth, literacy and humor, these essays explore questions surrounding puberty, gender identity, sex, 'domestic arrangements, ' beauty, pop culture and mainstream media, and media literacy/activism. Tammy Oler examines menarche and female puberty in horror films; Gaby Moss analyzes the media's obsession with 'mean girls'; and Lisa Jervis gives a rundown of sex scenes and pride in YA lesbian novels. Leigh Shoemaker puts down Camille Paglia's contention that males are superior due to their urinary 'arc of transcendence' by evoking the Virgin Mary's breasts squirting milk through the air into Jesus' mouth. Audry Bilger protests the use of 'guys' as gender neutral. Conspicuously absent is any discussion of women and aging. Maybe we'll, Farrar, Straus & Giroux INC International Concepts<
