Jessica Valenti. Amazon/New Harvest, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-54789-261-0
When her daughter was born at 28 weeks, leaving mother and child dangerously ill, Valenti felt enormous disappointment and a sense of failure. Not only had she missed a "good birth" resulting in a full-term healthy baby and happy family, her...
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Jessica Valenti. Morrow/Dey Street, $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-243508-8
Reviewed by Laura Bates.
Who would I be if I didn’t live in a world that hated women?” asks Valenti, founder of the website Feministing, in the introduction to her new memoir. In a confident and compelling volume that sweeps readers along from her...
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Jessica Valenti. Crown, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-80023-2
Valenti (Sex Objects) draws on her post-Roe-era newsletter Abortion, Every Day—where she has been “tracking every ban, court case, and anti-abortion strategy” in the U.S.—to create this clarifying and incandescent affirmation of not only the...
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Jessica Valenti, read by Emily Beresford. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.25 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4692-0994-4
Preparental fantasies about the joys of having children often bear little resemblance to the reality of actually rearing them. Here Velenti addresses the problems facing new parents—many of whom might not be prepared for modern-day child rearing....
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