Jessica Valenti
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| Born | November 1, 1978 New York City, United States |
| Residence | Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts[1] |
| Education | Master's in Women's and Gender Studies |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Founder of Feministing |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew Golis (m. 2009)[2] |
| Website | jessicavalenti.com |
Jessica Valenti (born November 1, 1978) is an American blogger and feminist writer, founder of the Feministing blog in 2004. She is the author or co-author of six books on women's issues: Full Frontal Feminism (2007),[lower-alpha 1] Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (2008) with Jaclyn Friedman,[lower-alpha 2] He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008),[lower-alpha 3] The Purity Myth (2009),[lower-alpha 4] Why Have Kids (2012),[lower-alpha 5] and Sex Object: A Memoir (2016).[lower-alpha 6]
Her work has appeared in Ms.,[3] The Nation,[lower-roman 1] The Washington Post,[lower-roman 2][lower-roman 3] TPMCafe,[lower-roman 4] Alternet[lower-roman 5] and The Guardian.[lower-roman 6] In 2011, The Guardian, where Valenti works as a daily columnist, named her as one of their "top 100 women" for her work to bring the feminist movement online.[4]
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Background
Valenti was raised in Long Island City, Queens in an Italian American family. Her father was a Buddhist. Valenti graduated from Stuyvesant High School.[lower-greek 1] She received her master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University.[lower-greek 2] On October 3, 2009, she married Andrew Golis, the deputy publisher of Talking Points Memo.[2]
Writing and blogging
Valenti founded Feministing in 2004,[lower-greek 3] while she was working at the National Organization for Women's legal defense fund (now Legal Momentum)[lower-greek 3] Homa Khaleeli writes in The Guardian's top 100 women that the site shifted the feminist movement online, triggering the creation of blogs and discussion groups, creating a heyday for feminism just as its death was being announced, as Khaleeli puts it. She writes that Valenti "felt the full force of being a pioneer," her involvement with the site attracting online abuse, even threats of rape and death.[4]
University of Wisconsin–Madison law professor Ann Althouse criticized Feministing in 2006 for its sometimes sexualized content. Erin Matson of the National Organization for Women's Young Feminist Task Force told The Huffington Post the controversy was "a rehashing of a very old debate within the feminist community: is public sexuality empowering or harmful to women?"[5][6]
Valenti decided to leave the site in February 2011, saying she wanted it to remain a place for younger feminists.[7] Before this, she had been a contributing author to Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan's books Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists (2010),[lower-alpha 7] Melody Berger's We Don't Need Another Wave (2008)[lower-alpha 8] and Diane Mapes's Single State of the Union (2007).[lower-alpha 9]
In 2008 she co-authored a Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape with Jaclyn Friedman, in 2012 she published Why Have Kids, and in 2016 she published Sex Object: A Memoir.
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Books
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