In celebration of Women’s History Month, Nassau Community College is proud to present Jessica Valenti, who will discuss Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to What Matters on Tuesday, March 15. The event, which takes place in the College Center Building at 1:00 p.m., is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled.
Jessica Valenti is the founder and editor of Feministing.com, a news, comment and calls to arms blog that has half-a-million readers a month. She is the author of three books: “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters”; “He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut…and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know”; and “The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women.” Valenti was also the 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.
A resident of Queens, New York, Valenti has a Master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. She has appeared as a guest on the “Colbert Report” and has been featured in “New York Magazine” and the British newspaper “The Guardian”, among other publications.
