Issue 44 | Fall 2009
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Contributors

Mia Partlow, Danine Spencer, Jonanna Widner, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ashley Brittner, Andi Zeisler, Gabriela Salvidea, Erica Lies, Kelsey Wallace, Erin DeJesus, Sarah McAbee, Erika Lopez, Annette Mullaney, Kjerstin Johnson, Ellen Papazian, Brian Pietras, Annalee Schafranek, Shira Chess, Jungyeon Roh, Lauren Bans, Jessica Hester, Meisha Rosenberg, Lauren Minco, Kara Jesella, Anke Weckman, Nadra Kareem, Heather Seggel, Joshunda Saunders, Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Audrey Bilger, Mandy Van Deven, Chole Tribich, Summer Wood, Jessica Jernigan, Kathleen Rooney, Tammy Oler, Cate Simpson, Danny Hayes, Sarah Seltzer, Krista Hanson, Noah Berlatsky, Matthue Roth, Kimberly Chun, Brittany Shoot, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Lisa Moricoli Latham, and Nicole J. Georges. Cover photo by Jeffery Walls

Consumed

TV Nannies, competitive eating, Meghan McCain, green breeding, and more!

In every issue

Editor's Letter

Letters & Comments

Love It/Shove It

Bitch In

The Bitch List

Columns

||| On the Money—Stereotyping the downturn, mainstream media-style

||| On Screen—Kamala Lopez in comic form

||| On the Tube—Do Arab women need to be saved by Turkish TV?

Features

::: Appetite for Deconstruction—Four writers on consuming passions

::: Just a Spoonful of Sugar—Can television's nannies use their superpowers to focus on the value of childcare—or is it just business as usual?

::: Shop Talk—An interview with obsessive consumer Kate Bingaman-Burt

::: Litter Bugged—When it comes to family size, do we have to choose between birth and Earth? Plus All in the Family—A Q&A with Rebecca Walker

Book, Music, and new! Screen Reviews

\\\ Re-Tales—The books that examine how—and why—we buy

\\\ Ladies' Camp Rock—Wrocking 'n' Rowling with wizard- and Twilight-themed bands

\\\ Mothers of Invention—An interview with Pamela Tanner Boll

The Back Page

New! Adventures in Feministory Comics: Betty Davis