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Jennifer Baumgardner

Jennifer Baumgardner is the author of several books about feminism, including Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future; the director/producer of the documentaries I Had an Abortion and It Was Rape; and the owner of Dottir Press, a feminist publisher. She is former executive director of the Feminist Press, editor at Ms. magazine, and editor in chief of the Women's Review of Books. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Jennifer lives in New York City with her husband, two sons, and two Abyssinians.

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Barbara Seaman

Muckraking journalist Barbara Seaman survived a tumultuous childhood in New York City to become a bestselling author, a prominent second wave feminist, and, as a founder of the women’s health movement, an architect of informed consent. A lifelong scourge to the pharmaceutical industry, Seaman exposed the dangers of the high-dose birth control pill, hormone replacement therapy, and male doctors’ hubris.