Jessica Valenti is a columnist for The Guardian US where she writes about gender and politics. In 2004 she founded the award-winning Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review called “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation and Ms. She is the author of several books, including the national bestseller FULL FRONTAL FEMINISM. Jessica lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Books by Jessica Valenti

Sex Object: A Memoir

by Jessica Valenti - Memoir, Nonfiction

Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in her memoir, she explores the toll that sexism takes on women’s lives, from the everyday to the existential. From subway gropings and imposter syndrome to sexual awakenings and motherhood, SEX OBJECT reveals the painful, embarrassing and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City.