SEX OBJECT: Jessica Valenti & Rachel Hills

Jessica Valenti, author of SEX OBJECT, discusses her new memoir with Rachel Hills, author of THE SEX MYTH, followed by a dialogue between Kate Layte and Katie Eelman on the book. Jessica Valenti - called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world - is a columnist for the Guardian US and the author of four books on feminism, politics and culture. Her third book, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women , won the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Award and was made into a documentary by the Media Education Foundation . She is also editor of the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape , which was named one of Publishers Weekly 's Top 100 Books of 2009 . She founded Feministing.com , which Columbia Journalism Review called "head and shoulders above almost any writing on women's issues in mainstream media." Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post , The Nation , The Guardian (UK), The American Prospect , Ms. magazine, Salon and Bitch magazine. She has won an IBIS Reproductive Health Evidence in Activism Award, a Choice USA Generation award and the 2011 Hillman Journalism Prize for her work with Feministing. Rachel Hills has written about feminism and politics for ABC's The Drum , The Age , The Atlantic , Buzzfeed , Cleo , Cosmopolitan , Daily Life , Elle, Girlfriend , Glamour, Grazia, Jezebel , The Monthly , The New Inquiry , New Matilda , The New Republic , NYMag.com , Russh , The Spectator , Stylist , Sunday Life , The Sydney Morning Herald , TIME , Vogue , The Walkley Magazine , YEN and more. She is also the author of a book called The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality , which published in North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK in August 2015.

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SEX OBJECT: Jessica Valenti & Rachel Hills is an episode from Papercuts J.P. Audio Broadcast by Katie Eelman.

This episode is 40:05 long.

This episode was published on Jul 11, 2016.

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