Jennifer Baumgardner
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| Born | circa 1970 Fargo, North Dakota, United States |
| Occupation | author, journalist, film producer and cultural critic |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | late 20th/early 21st century |
| Genres | books, magazine articles, documentary films |
| Subjects | feminism, bisexuality, parenthood |
| Literary movement | third wave feminism |
| Bisexuality series |
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| Orientation |
| Bisexuality · Pansexuality · Bi-curious · Questioning |
| Attitudes |
| Biphobia · Bisexual chic · Lesbian until graduation |
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| Community · BiNet USA · BiCon · Bi Community News · Symbols · Celebrate Bisexuality Day · Queer theory · LGBT history |
| Lists |
| Bisexual people · LGBT films · Media portrayal |
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Jennifer Baumgardner (born circa 1970) is an author and third-wave feminist activist. She lives in Brooklyn with her son Skuli. Baumgardner wrote a book about bisexuality after having a long term relationship with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls.
Baumgardner grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1996. Subsequently, she moved to New York City where she took a job writing for Ms. Magazine.
She has since written for numerous magazines, including Glamour, The Nation, Babble, and Maxim. Her books include Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism written with Amy Richards, and Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. She produced the documentary film I Had An Abortion, which tells the story of ten women's abortion experiences from the 1920s to the present. She has written about purity balls (rituals celebrating virginity)[1], about Catholic hospitals taking over secular ones and eliminating their reproductive services[2], and about breastfeeding her friend's son[3].
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[edit] Selected bibliography
[edit] Books
- Baumgardner, Jennifer; Amy Richards (2000). ManifestA: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Baumgardner, Jennifer; Amy Richards (2005). Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Baumgardner, Jennifer (2007). Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. New York: Farrar, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
[edit] Films
- Speak Out: I Had an Abortion (2005) co-producer
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official website
- The Third Wave Foundation
- Interview with Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
- Activist Mamas: An Interview With Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards article by Amy Anderson in mamazine published January 15, 2006
- Looking both ways with Jennifer Baumgardner article by Mandy Van Deven in feministing published April 16, 2007
- Look Both Ways: Baumgardner Makes Bisexuality Visible article by Eleanor J. Bader in AlterNet published March 7, 2007
- All women are bi like me, journalist says book review by Susan Comninos in the San Francisco Chronicle published March 4, 2007
[edit] References
- ^ Jennifer Baumgardner, Would you pledge your virginity to your father?, Glamour,
- ^ Jennifer Baumgardner, Immaculate Contraception, The Nation, 7 January 1999
- ^ Jennifer Baumgardner, Breast Friends, Babble, 2007
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