Kate Harding (page 16)

Kate Harding is the author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape
Culture–and What We Can Do About It, available from Da Capo Press in August 2015. Previously, she collaborated with Anna Holmes, Amanda Hess, and a cast of thousands on The Book of Jezebel, and with Marianne Kirby on Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere. You might also remember her as the founding editor of Shapely Prose (2007-2010).

Kate’s essays have appeared in the anthologies Madonna & Me, Yes Means Yes, Feed Me, and Airmail: Women of Letters. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a B.A. in English from University of Toronto, and is currently at work on a Ph.D. in creative writing from Bath Spa University

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Kate Harding (page 16)

“She was just in diapers”

When a vagina is not enough

What’s in a bat-crap-crazy name?

Many women have a low sex drive. Or not

Janet Jackson’s nipple not “actionably indecent”

Mad women

Amanda Peet: “Sorry about that ‘parasites’ thing”

Are breast self-exams worth it?

This just in: Adolescence sucks

Equality holds women back? Huh?

Buying abortion drugs online

Putting boobies on a pedestal

The male biological clock

Money, money, money

Sugar, spice and science

Exploitative Fourth of July peg of the day!

See? See why I get hysterical?!?

How to get ahead at the office — in 1976

The true price of beauty is needles in your face

Woman’s best friend

The tragic story of LaVena Johnson

“I’m not pregnant — but the night is young”

Not such a pill anymore

SOS double-D