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Jessica Valenti
Memoir & Personal Growth
Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer, co-founder of Feministing, and author of multiple books including Sex Object (2016).
Biography
Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer who co-founded the blog Feministing and wrote for it from 2004 to 2011. She is the author of six books, including Full Frontal Feminism (2007), The Purity Myth (2009), Why Have Kids? (2012), Sex Object: A Memoir (2016), and Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win (2024). She also co-edited books such as Yes Means Yes and A World Without Rape.
Between 2014 and 2018 Valenti was a columnist for The Guardian and she currently runs the Abortion, Every Day newsletter. Fellow feminist Michelle Goldberg has described her as "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation."
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Books by Jessica Valenti
Sex object
Sex Object: A Memoir (2016) is Valenti's memoir that explores the toll sexism takes on women's lives, recounting painful, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments from her adolescence and young adulthood in New York City.