“politicos,” 89
poll taxes, 44
polyvocal approach, 185–86
Poo, Ai-Jen, 201–3, 202 , 218
pop culture, 180–85
“pornification,” 207–8
pornography, 122–25, 207–8
postfeminism, 153–54, 155, 157, 173
poverty, xv, 4, 23–24, 30, 42, 60, 62–64, 92–100, 113–15, 124–28, 214–15, 229
pregnancies, 30–31, 109, 110, 111–12, 209, 215–16, 228
Pregnancy Discrimination Act (1978), 109
prenatal care, 196
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (proposed), 40–41
President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW), 49–52
President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 40, 44
Priesand, Sally, 133
Prime Suspect, 137
prison industrial complex, 174, 189
productivity, 31
professors, 139–40, 161–62, 168
profit motive, 89
Progressive Era, 12, 13
promotions, 73, 90, 121, 179–80
property rights, xvi
prostitution, 122–25, 138, 191, 206, 215–16
Protestantism, 6, 112, 142
proto-feminism, 160
public housing, 97
Public Religion Research Institute, 113–14
Puerto Ricans, 95, 115
punk music, 180–81
Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women (Valenti), 178
Pussy Riot, 211
queer theory, 185
Quirky Black Girls (QBG), 178
rabbis, 133
racism, 15–16, 25–26, 43–47, 51, 55, 56, 57–58, 72, 87, 89, 92–102, 104, 148–49, 150, 166–67, 186,
187, 190, 196, 201, 206, 218, 229
Radical Cheerleaders, 190
radical feminism, 70–71, 72, 77, 78–79, 88, 94–106, 132, 169–70, 206–7, 209
“Raises, Not Roses, 132
Raleigh News and Observer, 128
Randolph, A. Philip, 25, 34, 44