Jessica Valenti

In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country’s intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation” (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue. A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In...

NPR Great Read of 2016 Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Sex Object...

In Why Have Kids?, Valenti explores these controversial questions through on-the-ground reporting, startling new research, and her own unique experiences as a mom....

Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism....

This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the...

Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs....