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Jessica Bennett

Journalist & Author

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Profiles


Pamela Anderson Doesn’t Need Your Redemption, She’s Just Fine

Amanda Knox Was Exonerated. That Doesn’t Mean She’s Free.

Monica Lewinsky Is Reluctantly Revisiting ‘That Woman’ (Again)

Kathy Hochul Is Standing On a Very High Glass Cliff

Melinda French Gates Is Redefining What It Means to Leave a Legacy

The Nude Photos Aren’t Going Away. Katie Hill’s OK With That.

What If Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?

It’s a New Morning for Jennifer Aniston


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Features

Being 13

The Primal Scream: Three American Mothers, On the Brink

If Hetero Relationships Are So Bad, Why Do Women Go Back for More?

The Perimenopause Gold Rush (listen)

They Call Themselves the ‘Sisterhood of the Strange Sorority.’ Donald Trump Was Their Initiation.

The Click: How the Weinstein Scandal Unleashed a Tsunami

Goodbye, Swimsuits. Hello, Miss America ‘2.0.’

Can the Millennials Save Playboy?

What Is Fun? Can I Have It? Will We Ever Have It Again?

Kamala Harris Will Make History. So Will Her ‘Big, Blended’ Family.

The ‘Tough Guy,’ ‘Nice Guy’ Politics of Trump and Biden

Should the Rules for NFL Cheerleaders be Modernized?

Campus Sex, With a Syllabus

A Playwright, a Mentor, and a Predator

A Masters Degree In… Masculinity?

When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority…


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Essays & Ideas

The Joy of Communal Girlhood; the Anguish of Teen Girls

The Audacity of E. Jean Carroll

Wait, Am I Middle Aged?

Why We Love to Watch a Woman Brought Low

If Everything is ‘Trauma,’ Is Anything?

The Strange Teen Ritual of Sharing Lipgloss

When Saying ‘Yes’ Is Easier Than Saying ‘No’

I’m Not Mad. That’s Just My RBF.

I Saw ‘Barbie’ With Famed Feminist Susan Faludi. She Has a Theory About It.

Ambition Has Always Been ‘Ladylike’

Harvey Weinstein and the Limits of ‘She Said, She Said, She Said’

The Tightrope of Testifying While Female


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Throwbacks

Polyamory. Gay marriage. Second life. Pink lipstick. That time I got a degree from the nation’s first pot school! When I wrote a Modern Love about my failed engagement. A creepy story about men who fall in love with dolls. An even creepier (and horrific) series about the pedophile Jerry Sandusky. A column on internet language! When I camped out with some “preppers.” That time I went to Florida to “find” Casey Anthony, which I failed to do. All of these and more stories coming as soon as I find the time to update this web page.