ABOUT THE EDITOR



About the Editor
Women of Note in the Book

 

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Ovaries! Editor Rivka Solomon writes and rabble-rouses on the East Coast. She specializes in first-person narratives focusing on women's and girls' issues. In addition to her upcoming book That Takes Ovaries! Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts, Solomon's work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and radio broadcasts, including all the right places, such as Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture; Bust: The New Girl Order; Feminista!: The Online Journal of Feminist Construction; Lilith Magazine: The Independent Jewish Woman's Magazine; Maxi; Moxi: For the Woman Who Dares; Sojourner: The Women's Forum; and WBUR, Boston's National Public Radio news station (on-air essays). Essays were published in the following anthologies, Back Off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers (Simon & Schuster, 1993); Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents (St. Martins Press '00) (Booklist named this one of the Ten Best Gay & Lesbian Books of 2000; the book also received two Lambda Literary awards in 2001, including Best LGBT Nonfiction Anthology and Best Children's/Young Adult Book); Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture (Seal Press '00). Since darn near babyhood, Solomon has been an advocate/activist for women and girls.

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WOMEN OF NOTE IN THE BOOK

We have many women of note in the book. Read the whole book to find out why they are worthy of such a title! Meanwhile, we'll list just a few here: Joani Blank, writer, publisher and founder/former owner of the nationally renowned women’s sex toy store Good Vibrations; Ruchira Gupta, an Emmy-award winning film maker who exposed the truths about the sex trafficking of girls in Asia; Rana Husseini, internationally known activist and journalist fighting against so-called “honor killings” in the Arab world; Fauziya Kassindja, one of the first women to receive political asylum in the United States for fleeing female genital mutilation and forced marriage in Africa; Wilma Mankiller, one of the nation's most prominent Native American leaders, former Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Amy Richards, contributing editor to Ms. magazine and cofounder of the Third Wave Foundation; Rebecca Walker, writer/lecturer on 3rd wave feminism and multiracial identity.

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