Jennifer Baumgardner

Infobox Writer
name = Jennifer Baumgardner

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birthdate = circa 1970
birthplace = Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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occupation = author, journalist, film producer and cultural critic
nationality = American
period = late 20th/early 21st century
genre = books, magazine articles, documentary films
subject = feminism, bisexuality, parenthood
movement = third wave feminism
debut_work = Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future
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website = http://www.soapboxinc.com/jennifer-baumgardner/

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) [Jennifer Baumgardner, "Would you pledge your virginity to your father?", [http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/01/purityballs07feb Glamour] , ] , about Catholic hospitals taking over secular ones and eliminating their reproductive services [Jennifer Baumgardner, " Immaculate Contraception", [http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990125/baumgardner/1 The Nation] , 7 January 1999] , and about breastfeeding her friend's son [Jennifer Baumgardner, "Breast Friends", [http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/personalessays/baumgardner/breastfriends/ Babble] , 2007] .

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Films

* "Speak Out: I Had an Abortion" (2005) co-producer

ee also

* third-wave feminism
* the left and feminism
* new social movements

External links

* [http://www.soapboxinc.com/jennifer-baumgardner/ Official website]
* [http://www.thirdwavefoundation.org The Third Wave Foundation]
* [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/11.29.00/feminism-0048.html Interview with Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards]
* [http://www.mamazine.com/Pages/feature46.html Activist Mamas: An Interview With Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards] article by Amy Anderson in "mamazine" published January 15, 2006
* [http://feministing.com/archives/006877.html Looking both ways with Jennifer Baumgardner] article by Mandy Van Deven in "feministing" published April 16, 2007
* [http://www.alternet.org/story/48853/ Look Both Ways: Baumgardner Makes Bisexuality Visible] article by Eleanor J. Bader in "AlterNet" published March 7, 2007
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/04/RVG14OA9DI1.DTL All women are bi like me, journalist says] book review by Susan Comninos in the San Francisco Chronicle published March 4, 2007

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