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contents I FALL 09 VOLUME XIX • NUMBER 4 38 Domestic workers take it to the streets in New York City for a Bill of Rights. DEPARTMENTS MONEY 47 Astroturf War Who’s really behind the uproar against health-care reform? BY MARTHA BURK MEDIA 50 The Kid Wimps Out Why can’t tween literature empower boys and girls at the same time? Gardeners sow community change. BY ALLISON KIMMICH REMEMBRANCE 52 Thank You, Senator Kennedy The feminist movement has lost one of its greatest champions. BY MICHELE KORT 55 BOOK REVIEWS Erin Aubry Kaplan on Heidi W. Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From the Sky; Gaiutra Bahadur on Megan Voysey- Braig’s Till We Can Keep an Animal; Jennifer Cognard-Black on Emilie Zaslow’s Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture; Jessica Holden Sherwood on Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay’s The Fat Studies Reader; Nikki Keddie on Haleh Esfandiari’s My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran 58 BOOKMARKS Great reads for fall 2009 61 DVD WATCH Feminist films available for home viewing BACKTALK 63 Break the Chains! Slavery still exists, and we must all join 61 www.msmagazine.com the fight against it. BY DONNA BRAZILE 64 NO COMMENT FALL 2009 | 5 YANA PASKOVA/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX