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Pop Goes the Feminist

September 26, 2006

Lisa Jervis editor

Andi Zeisler editor

Lynn Peril writer

Margaret Price writer

Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, Bitch Magazine founders and editors of BITCHFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, join up with Lynn Peril, author of College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, and Bitch contributor Margaret Price, for a smart, nuanced, cranky, outrageous and clear-eyed exploration of the places where feminism and pop culture intersect, interact, and sometimes collide.

Series:

A Girl’s Life Series

Topics: Culture & Identity | Literature & Philosophy

Tags: Non-Fiction | Lifestyle | Women's Issues

Presented By WGBH and Center for New Words:

Center for New Words

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College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now

Author: Lynn Peril

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 416 pages

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