1. Jennifer Baumgardner is most known for her contribution to the development of third-wave feminism.
11 Facts About Jennifer Baumgardner
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Jennifer Baumgardner attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1992.
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Jennifer Baumgardner moved to New York City after graduation and in 1993 began working as an unpaid intern for Ms.
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Jennifer Baumgardner has since written for numerous magazines, including Glamour, The Nation, Babble, More, and Maxim.
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Jennifer Baumgardner's books include Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism written with Amy Richards, and Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics.
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Jennifer Baumgardner's work has been featured on shows from The Oprah Winfrey Show to NPR's Talk of the Nation, as well as in the New York Times, BBC News Hour, Bitch, and various other venues.
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Jennifer Baumgardner has keynoted at more than 250 universities, organizations, and conferences, including the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, Amherst College, Take Back The Night UW-Madison, and the New Jersey Women and Gender Studies Consortium.
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On February 20,2007, Jennifer Baumgardner published Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, the first book she had written without the co-authorship of Amy Richards.
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In Look Both Ways, Jennifer Baumgardner takes a close look at the growing visibility of gay and bisexual characters, performers, and issues on the national cultural stage.
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Woven in between her cultural commentary, Jennifer Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual, and the struggle she's undergone to reconcile the privilege she's garnered as a woman who is perceived as straight and the empowerment and satisfaction she's derived from her relationships with women.
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In 2004, Jennifer Baumgardner created the "I Had an Abortion" project to encourage women to "come out" about their procedures.