- Jennifer Baumgardner
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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 aboutbisexuality after having a long term relationship withAmy Ray of theIndigo Girls .Baumgardner grew up in
Fargo, North Dakota and attendedLawrence University inAppleton ,Wisconsin , graduating in 1996. Subsequently, she moved toNew 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 withAmy Richards , and "Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics". She produced thedocumentary film "I Had An Abortion", which tells the story of ten women'sabortion experiences from the 1920s to the present. She has written aboutpurity ball s (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] .elected bibliography
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* "Speak Out: I Had an Abortion" (2005) co-producer
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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 theSan Francisco Chronicle published March 4, 2007References
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