by Ariel Levy
Finally, thanks to Amy Norquist, for everything.
Index
Abercrombie & Fitch
Abortion
Abstinence-only sex education
Abzug, Bella
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
ACT UP
Acuff, Amy
Adolescent Family Life Act
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Brownmiller)
Aguilera, Christina
Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
Albright, Madeleine
Alexander, Dolores
Amateur sex tapes
American Psychological Association
Anderson, Pamela
Apprentice, The (television show)
Arden, Alex
Athletes
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Ayers, Bill
Bachelor, The (television show)
Bailey, Fenton
Baldwin, James
Banff Television Festival
Banned from Television
Barbato, Randy
Barbie dolls
Baumgardner, Jennifer
Beard, Amanda
Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Behrendt, Greg
Big Life (in Advertising), A (Wells Lawrence)
Bild Lilli
Bird, Caroline
Birth control pill
Bishop, John
Blanchard, Keith
B’lo, Manhattan
Bois
Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down (Bird)
Bra-burning
Braniff Airlines
Bravo, Jack
Brazile, Donna
Breast implants
Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame
Brokaw, Tom
Brown, Tina
Brownmiller, Susan
Bruce, Lenny
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (television show)
Bunny logo
“Bunny’s Tale, A” (Steinem)
Bunny Years, The (Scott)
Bush, George W.
Bushnell, Candace
Butch flight
Byrd, Robin
Cafferty, Jennifer
Cage, Diana
CAKE
Cardio Striptease classes
Carmichael, Stokely
Carolla, Adam
Carrilero, Pierre
Carter, John Mack
Carter, Nick
Cattrall, Kim
Ceballos, Jacqui
Center for the Advancement of Women
Centers for Disease Control
Charlie’s Angels (film)
Charlie’s Angels (television show)
Cheap Thrills (album)
Childhood sexual abuse
Chisholm, Shirley
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil rights movement
Civil War
Clark, Haley
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Clitoris
Clothing
Club Galia, San Francisco
College education
Collins, Joan
Columbia University
Comedy Central
Committee of 200
Confessions of an Heiress (Hilton)
Consciousness-raising groups
Contraception
Cope, Debbie
Costa, Jeff
Coulter, Ann
Couric, Katie
Cowan, Peggy
Craig’s List
Crain’s
Crumb, Robert
Crunch gyms
“Dear Bill and Hillary” (Dworkin)
Desire, sexual
Desperate Housewives (television show)
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl (Quan)
Dick Cavett Show
Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality (Tolman)
Dirrty (video)
Divorce rate
Doe v. Bolton (1970)
Doherty, Shannon
Doonan, Simon
Doty, Lissa
Dubrow, Terry
Dworkin, Andrea
Dyke TV
Eagle, San Francisco
Egalitarianism
Eisenberg, Erin
Eisenberg, Shaina
Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972)
Electra, Carmen
Elle magazine
Emancipation Proclamation
Emily’s List
Eminem
Entertainment industry, women in top positions in
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Esquire magazine
Evangelical Christianity
Everett, Rupert
“Everybody’s Protest Novel” (Baldwin)
Fallaci, Oriana
Fanshen (Hinton)
Fantasies
Farley, Melissa
Fashion shows
Fear of Flying (Jong)
Fed-Up Queers
Female Chauvinist Pig (FCP)
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)
Femininity (Brownmiller)
Feminism
Feminist Party
FHM (For Him Magazine)
Fieldston School, New York City
Fluffer
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Frailey, Lynn
Francis, Joe
Freud, Sigmund
Friday, Nancy
Friedan, Betty
Friends (television show)
Friendster
FTMs (female-to-male transsexuals)
Furies, The
Furnas, J. C.
Gallagher, Melinda
Gallup poll (2001)
Gay marriage
Gerlach, Carrie
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Girls Gone Wild
Girly-girls
Gitlin, Todd
Golddiggers
Grabowski, Marilyn
Gray, Macy
Green, Sam
Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy
Grigoriadis, Vanessa
G-String Divas (television show)
Haley, Alex
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Harper’s magazine
Harry, Debbie
Harvard University
Havard, Linda
HBO (Home Box Office)
Head-Royce School, Oakland
Hefner, Christie
Hefner, Hugh
Heftler, Jennifer
Henderson, Mary C.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
He’s Just Not That Into You (Behrendt)
Hilton, Paris
Hilton Hotels
Hinton, William
Hite, Shere
Hite Report, The: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality (Hite)
HIV-AIDS
Horace Mann School, New York City
Horn, Bill
Hotness
Houston
Howard Stern (television show)
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star (Jameson)
Hudnut, William
“In Bed with Fairy Butch,”
Incest
Indianapolis, Indiana
In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Brownmiller)
Intercourse (Dworkin)
International Documentary Association
Jackson, Janet
Jameson, Jenna
Jennings, Peter
Jive Records
Joe Millionaire (television show)
John, Elton
Johnson, Betsey
Jones, Grace
Jong, Erica
Joplin, Janis
Juggies
Kellison, Daniel
Kennedy, Flo
Kerouac, Jack
Kimmel, Jimmy
King, Larry
King, Michael Patrick
Kingston, Massachusetts 1450
Klum, Heidi
Koedt, Anne
Koppel,
Ted
Korn
Kramer, Emily
Ladies’ Home Journal
Lad Mag
La Guardia, Fiorello
La Motta, Vicky
Lap dancing
Lauer, Matt
Law & Order (television show)
Leist, Mia
Leno, Jay
Lesbianism
Lexington Club, San Francisco
Life of Luxury (television show)
Lifetime Intimate Portrait (television show)
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindsay, John
Lisa Marie
Live-Journal
Loophole woman
Lorde, Audre
Lords, Traci
Lotney, Karlyn
MacKinnon, Catharine
Madonna
Magazine industry
Malcolm X
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (Baumgardner and Richards)
Man Show, The (television show)
Mao Tse-tung
March for Women’s Lives (2004)
Marriott Hotels
Martin, Dean
Mary Boone Gallery, New York City
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The (television show)
Maxim magazine
McCarthy, Mary
Means, Cyril
Meow Mix, Manhattan
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Earl
Millet, Kate
Mirabella magazine
Miss America Pageant
Missionary position intercourse
Moorcock, Michael
Moore, Mary Tyler
Morgan, Robin
Moss, Kate
Mother Courage restaurant New York City
Movie industry
My Secret Garden (Friday)
“Myth of Vaginal Orgasm, The” (Koedt)
National Abortion Rights Action League
National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL)
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Legal Defense and Education Fund
Second Congress to Unite Women (1970)
Nerve.com
Nevins, Sheila
New Left
Newmark, Craig
New Yorker, The
New York Radical Women
New York Times
New York Times Magazine
New York Women in Film & Television
Nixon, Richard
Notes from the First Year (New York Radical Women)
Olympic athletes
On Our Backs magazine
Oral sex
Orgasm
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Outback Jack (television show)
Out magazine
Paddock, Lisa
Page, Lisa
Paglia, Camille
Paley, Grace
Parker, Sarah Jessica
Partisan Review
Peace movement
Pearlstein, Norman
Penthouse magazine
Pitt, Brad
PlanetOut
Planned Parenthood
Plastic surgery
Playboy Clubs
Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Foundation
Playboy magazine
Playgirl magazine
Political right
Pornography
classes on
porn stars
Pornography: Men Possessing Women (Dworkin)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Princeton University
Prostitution
“Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,”
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress (ed. Farley)
Publishing industry
Pucci, Emilio
Quan, Tracy
Quivers, Robin
Radcliffe College
Radicalesbians
Rainbow gatherings
Rainbow parties
Rape
Reality television shows
Regan, Judith
Rehnquist, William
Reid, Tara
Rich, Adrienne
Richards, Amy
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Rolling Stone magazine
Rollyson, Carl
Rosskam, Julien
Royalle, Candida
Rushdie, Salman
Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn Heights
Schwartz, Deb
Scott, Jeremy
Scott, Kathryn Leigh
Sex, Art, and American Culture (Paglia)
Sex and the City (Bushnell)
Sex and the City (television show)
Sex education
Sex-positive feminist
Sex tapes, amateur
Sexual abuse
Sexual desire
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Sexual pleasure
Sexual revolution
Shaw, Jason
Sheehy, Gail
Showtime
Siegel, Bill
Silva, Marie
Simple Life, The (television show)
Simpson, Jessica
“Sisterhood Is Powerful: A member of the Women’s Liberation Movement explains what it’s all about” (Brownmiller)
Sisterhood is Powerful (ed. Morgan)
Sixties, The: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (Gitlin)
Slater, Christian
Slavery
Smith, Patti
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Social Security Act
Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Solanis, Valerie
Solomon, Rick
Sontag, Susan
Spears, Britney
Special Projects of Regional and National Significance program
Spice television network
Spin magazine
Star (Anderson)
Star, Darren
Steinem, Gloria
Stern, Howard
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Stripped (album)
Strippers
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Stowe)
Super Bowl (2004)
Supreme Court of the United States
Swan, The (television show)
Talbot County, Maryland
Teenagers
Testosterone
That Girl (television show)
Thinking XXX (documentary)
Thomas, Marlo
Timberlake, Justin
Time magazine
Time Warner
Tolman, Deborah
Tomming
“Tom shows,”
Tonight Show
Top surgery (double mastectomy)
Transsexuals
Trump, Donald
20/20 (television show)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
Vaginal rejuvenation
Vaginoplasty
Valletta, Amber
Van Gelder, Lindsy
Vanity Fair
Veteran Feminists of America
Victoria’s Secret
Vidal, Gore
Vietnam War
Virginity
Vulva, plastic surgery of
Wallace, Mike
Walters, Barbara
Ward, Jill
Warhol, Andy
Washington, Denzel
Washington Post
Wattleton, Faye
Waxman, Henry
Weathermen
Weissman, Hope
Wells Lawrence, Mary
Wesleyan University
Wharton, Edith
Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? (television show)
Williams, Vanessa
Wilson, Cleo
Winfrey, Oprah
Woman Hating (Dworkin)
Women Agains
t Pornography
Women’s liberation movement
Women’s Strike for Equality (1970)
Worley, Mike
Xena the Warrior Princess (television show)
XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (Greenfield-Sanders)
Yale University
About the Author
ARIELLEVY is a contributing editor at New York magazine. This is her first book.
