Table of Contents
Introduction: Two Girls in a Room ix
Part 1 Starlets, Scientists, Artists, Activists & Other Noteworthy Women
Atsuko Chiba: The Nonconformist 3
Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan: Ms. Fights for Its Life 15
Phoebe Gloeckner: A Graphic Life 41
Gaitlin Moran: They Don't Make Feminists This Outrageous Anymore 53
Elizabeth Blackburn: Why Science Must Adapt to Women 65
Miranda Cosgrove: The Good Girl 77
Katherine Mary Flannigan: The Story of My Life 95
Part 2 Body Language
Does Father Know Best? 109
Thirty-Five and Mortal: A Breast Cancer Diary 117
The Problem with Pink 147
Mourning My Miscarriage 171
Baby Lust 185
Breast Friends 191
Put to the Test 203
What Makes a Woman a Woman? 213
Call of the Wild 219
Part 3 Not Your Mama's Motherhood
The Perfect Mother Trap 233
Your Gamete, Myself 245
Bringing Down Baby 273
Where I Got Daisy 279
The Femivore's Dilemma 285
Part 4 Girls! Girls! Girls! (And one About Boys)
Children Are Alone 291
What's Wrong with Cinderella? 319
Playing at Sexy 337
The Hillary Lesson 341
The Empowerment Mystique 345
The Fat Trap 351
The Battle over Dress Codes 355
Our Barbie Vaginas, Ourselves 359
When Did Porn Become Sex Ed? 365
How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump 373
Acknowledgments 379