anti-feminist backlash, 90, 99–100, 110, 112–13, 142, 157–58, 164, 215–17, 228–30
Arab Spring, 211
Armour and Co., 8, 25–26
arrests, 118
Art Institute of Chicago, 78
artists, female, 138
Asian Americans, 9, 96, 98, 166, 201, 217
AT&T, 20
athletics, 109, 134, 161, 181
Audre Lorde Project, 190
“Aunt Toms,” 62
autobiographical testimony, 174
automobile industry, 6–7, 36
Auto Workers Local 764, 7
Avery, Nina Horton, 41, 56
baby-boomer generation, 24, 26, 27, 147, 162
babysitters, 127
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Faludi), 157–58, 173
Bailey, Moya, 178–79
Baldwin, Tammy, 217
banking industry, 132
Baraka, Amiri, 95
Barnard College, 122–23, 170
Barnett, Sonya, 203–4
Baumgardner, Jennifer, 158, 172
BBC, 212
Beal, Fran, 72, 94, 96
Beauty Myth, The: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Wolf), 173
beauty pageants, 64, 69, 71
Beauvoir, Simone de, 79
“Becoming the Third Wave” (Walker), 153–54, 171
“being real,” 154–55, 188
Berger, John, 104
Beyoncé, 180
Bhasin, Kamla, 209–10
“big government,” 194
Bikini Kill, 180
biological factors, 31–32, 85
biracialism, 166
birth control, xiv, xix, xx, 91, 111, 116, 142, 161, 196, 209, 215–16
bisexuality, 155, 228
Bitch, 171, 173–74
Black Panther Party, 94–95, 98, 104, 106
black power, 94–95, 98, 104, 105–6