Kidscape 77–8
Knight, India 122
Knocked Up (film) 219
L-Word, The (TV) 51, 89
lap-dancing 4, 5, 6, 35, 39–49, 54, 62, 90, 102, 125, 232, 233, 236
‘Lara’ 112–14
Laschever, Sara 216–17
Lawson, Nigella 224
Leapfrog 133–4
Lee, Abby (Zoe Margolis) 93–4, 95; Girl with a One-track Mind 93–4, 95, 105
Lessing, Doris 85, 231; Golden Notebook, The 85
Levy, Ariel 32
Liberman, Mark 166–7, 169, 190, 201–2
Lilith Project 47
Lloyd, Gavin 22
Lopez, Jennifer 21
love 90–101
Loughborough University 26
Mackay, Finn 234
MacKinnon, Catharine 104
Madeley, Richard 165–6
magazines: lads’ magazines 4, 5, 19–38, 55, 73, 90, 102, 107, 233, see also Nuts, Zoo, FHM; women’s and girls’ magazines 2, 66, 67, 80, see also Vogue, Elle, Jackie
Man the Hunter (Lee, ed) 195
Margolis, Zoe (‘Abby Lee’) 93–4, 95, 100, 105; Girl with a One-track Mind 93–4, 95, 105
Marsh, Jodie 22, 36, 123
maternity leave 8, 226
mathematics 148, 155, 158, 174–80
Mattel 3, 133
Maudsley, Sir Henry 203
Maxim (magazine) 32
Mayhem nightclub 19–25
McCabe, Jess 71, 234
McElvoy, Anne 231
Mehl, Matthias 167
‘Melanie’ 60–1
‘Melissa P’ 95
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (Gray) 166, 173
Merkel, Angela 212
Merrill, Paul 29
Messenger, Melinda 22
Millward, Rachel 235
Misconceptions (Wolf) 221
‘Miss S’ 49–50, 50–1, 59–60; Confessions of a Working Girl 49–50, 59–60
Moore, Emma and Abi 236
Moorhead, Joanna 134–5
Morgan, Hayley 59
Morgan, Robin 104
Moss, Howard 162
Moss, Kate 41
motherhood 220–30
Mumsnet 237
Myth of Mars and Venus, The (Cameron) 156, 173
Myths of Gender (Fausto-Sterling) 203
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 77, 79
National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles 91
Needs of Children, The (Pringle) 138
Neon Management 40, 123
New Feminism, The (Walter) 8, 33
Nicol, Tania 58
‘Nikki’ 20–1
Nin, Anaïs 100
Nuts (magazine) 19–20, 21, 22, 29–30, 31, 37, 73–4, 124
Obama, Michelle and Barack 224
OBJECT organisation 47, 233
oestrogen 181–2
On Beauty (Smith) 117–18
Orbach, Susie 66; Bodies 66; Fat is a Feminist Issue 66
oxytocin 148, 149, 182–4, 226
Palin, Sarah 121
Paoletti, Jo 146
Paper Houses (Roberts) 97
parental leave 9, 147, 226–7
Parliament 9, 119; Scottish Parliament 9
paternity leave 8, 9, 226–7
pay gap 10, 119, 216–17
Pease, Allan and Barbara 195; Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps 195–6
Pembroke College, Cambridge 26
Penn, Helen 78
Penny, Laurie 43–4
Phillips, Arlene 122
pink for girls 1–3, 12, 129–37; and biological determinism 11, 145–7
Pink Stinks 236
Pinker, Steven 148, 154, 155, 174, 177, 185; Blank Slate, The 148, 174, 177, 185;
Pinker, Susan 148, 159, 178, 185, 191, 219; Sexual Paradox, The 148, 159, 178, 185
Piper, Billie 5, 51, 61
plastic surgery 2, 22, 68, 108–9, 233
Playboy: bunny outfits 20; logo 72; nights 26
pole-dancing 3, 4, 5, 14, 26, 37, 41–2, 46, 52, 72, 75, 119, 125, 237
Politics (Thirlwell) 104
pornography 4, 26, 29, 73, 76, 78, 90, 102–18, 119, 123, 125, 233
Pornography: Men Possessing Women (Dworkin) 29
power 208–16; equation of hypersexual culture and power 5–7, 25, 37, 43–5, 49, 52, 61, 77, 96, 101, 122, 234
Price, Katie, see Jordan
Pringle, Mia Kellmer 138; Needs of Children, The 138
promiscuity 5, 52, 84–101
prostitution 4, 5, 35, 46, 49–62; and violence 57–62
Pussycat Dolls 76
Quan, Tracy 49; Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl 49, 89
Quinn, Diane 205
rape 8, 47, 61, 104, 114, 119, 235
Read, David 35, 40, 123
Reclaim the Night marches 233–4
Redfern, Catherine 234
Reynolds, Helen 28
Roberts, Michèle 97; Paper Houses 97
Robson, Kenneth 162
Roche, Charlotte 105; Wetlands 105
Rock, Daisy 103
Romance Academy 80–1
Rooney, Wayne 54
Rosa 235
Royal, Ségolène 212
‘Ruby’ 86, 88–90, 92
Salisbury, Wendy 95
Salmon, Zoe 70
scientific aptitude 152–3, 155, 159, 174, 176–80
Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir) 3
second wave feminism 5, 84–6, 97–9, 104–5, 129, 135, 134–41, 233
Secrets of the Sexes (TV) 150, 182, 184, 211, 219
Seldon, Anthony 215
serial killers 58–9
Sex and the City (TV) 51, 89, 90, 92–3, 103–4
sex industry 3, 4, 6, 33, 36, 125; see also lap-dancing, pornography, prostitution
sexting 78
sexual bullying 77–9, 80, 121, 233, 235
Sexual Paradox, The (Pinker) 148, 159, 178, 185
sexual violence 29, 33, 57–62, 104, 115; see also rape
Shapiro, Lisa 63–4
Shore, Michael 133
Singh, Suraya 27
Smith, Jacqui 121–2, 212
Smith, Zadie 117–18; On Beauty 117–18
Smuts, Barbara 197
Snodgrass, Sara 172
sociobiology 203–4
Span, Anna 102–3, 117
Spare Rib (magazine) 150, 205
spatial skills 148, 163, 175–6, 184–5, 194, 206
Spears, Britney 71
Spelke, Elizabeth 155, 159–60, 162, 165
Spencer, Stephen 205
Spice Girls 41–2, 43
Steele, Claude 205
stereotypes 199–230; ‘stereotype threat’ 205–8
Stevens, Rachel 36
Strassmann, Burkhard 141
Strictly Come Dancing (TV) 122
Sugababes 42
Sugar (magazine) 77
Sullivan, Andrew 153–4
Summers, Lawrence 152–6, 174
systemising 147, 158, 162, 170, 174, 179, 184, 186, 211
‘Tania’ 20–5
Tannen, Deborah 170, 173
‘Taylay’ 64
von Teese, Dita 43
testosterone 147, 148, 149, 180, 184–7, 206, 210, 211
Thatcher, Margaret 212
Theakston, Jamie 54
There’s a Good Girl (M Grabrucker) 139
Thirlwell, Adam 104; Politics 104
Thomas, Imogen 30
Townsend, Catherine 95
toys 1, 4, 63, 129–35, 150, 222, 232, 237; see also Barbie, Bratz, Disney, Mattel
trafficking for forced prostitution 58
Vadera, Baroness 214
Valian, Virginia 215
VaVoom, Vivienne 43
verbal skills 12, 137, 154, 165–70, 200, 205
Vindication of the Rights of Women, A (Wollstonecraft) 3, 96–7
Vivid (magazine) 26
Vogue (magazine) 67
W.I.T.C.H. 69
Walker, Lea 31
Ward, Helen 55
Washburn, Sherwood 195
Weinberg, Katherine 164
Wetlands (Roche) 105
White, Hannah 78
White, Terri 32–3, 37
Whiteley, Carly 73–6, 82–3, 98, 120
Whole Woman, The (Greer) 44
Why Mars and Venus Collide (Gray) 149, 191
Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps (Pease) 195–6
Widdecombe, Ann 120–1
Wilson, Edward O 203–4
Wolf, Naomi 3, 7, 221; Misconceptions 221
Wollstonecraft, Mary 3, 96–7; Vindication of the Rights of Women, A 3, 96–7
Woman: An Intimate Geography (Angier) 197
Womankind Worldwide 78, 235
Women for Refugee Women 234
Women’s Resource Centre 235
Women’s Room, The (French) 85
work: inequality at work 8–10, 13, 148, 150, 169, 178, 208–17, 228–30; domestic work 9–10, 209, 218–30
Wynn, Karen 155
York University 26
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (film) 104
Zola, Emile 50
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