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Paula Kamen
Paula Kamen, 42, a Chicago-based journalist, is the author of four books, including All in My Head: An Epic Quest To Cure An Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, And Only Slightly Enlightening Headache, a humorous memoir, which came out in paperback in 2006. Salon.com said that the book “"connects the dots on this issue of women and chronic pain in a way nobody else has done." Called a “moving bio” by Entertainment Weekly, her newest book is Finding Iris Chang: Ambition, Friendship And The Loss Of An Extraordinary Mind, which came out in paperback last year.
Her first two books were about Gen X women and feminism: Feminist Fatale: Voices from the Twentysomething Generation Explore the Future of the Women’s Movement (1991), widely noted as the first “Third Wave” feminist book, and Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution (2000), also based on dozens of interviews. She is also the author of the play Jane: Abortion and the Underground, which has been performed by more twenty groups nationwide, including on college campuses.
Her articles and commentaries have appeared in many national publications, including salon.com, nytimes.com, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.
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Paula Kamen's Posts
The New Face of “Jane” in Chicago
September 27, 2010 by Paula Kamen · 1 Comment
Like with Jane, most of the women served by the Chicago Abortion Fund are poor African American women, But a change with CAF is that African American women are those actually running things.
The Gen X Male-Only Midlife Crisis: Hot Tub v. SATC
May 29, 2010 by Paula Kamen · 9 Comments
The men of “Hot Tub” are funny, while the women of SATC are “desperate.”
The Cancer Bitch on “Sick Lit”
May 3, 2010 by Paula Kamen · 1 Comment
Illness is not a gift. Do you know what a gift is? Earrings.
Migraine: the North Korea of Disabilities
March 17, 2010 by Paula Kamen · 18 Comments
As a result of the lack of federal funding, ‘there has been virtually no innovation in migraine research’ since 1992, said Dr. Shapiro.
My Headache and I on the Hill
March 9, 2010 by Paula Kamen · 7 Comments
Yes, Ms. readers, pain makes interesting bedfellows, which I’ll gladly take, even in the form of Republican beer heiresses. I am certain that anyone who has ever had a migraine will understand.
