Levine is also the author of My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender (originally published as My Enemy, My Love: Man-Hating and Ambivalence in Women’s Lives, 2009), in which she analyzes traditional gender roles and the relationship between misogyny and feminism Do You Remember Me?: A Father, A Daughter, and a Search for the Self, a memoir of her father's affliction with Alzheimer's disease and a critique of the medicalization of aging and Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, a witty journal in which she examines consumerism and anti-consumerist movements. It won the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named by SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, as one of history's most influential books about sexuality. The book was also widely praised by advocates of liberalization and educators.
Conservative commentators have heavily criticized her work its publication by the University of Minnesota Press caused controversy in the Minnesota state legislature. Levine argues for weakening most United States laws governing possession of child pornography, the access of abortions to minors, and conduct classified as statutory rape. Levine is best known for her 2002 book Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex, in which she suggests liberalization of age-of-consent laws in the United States and the conception of minors as sexual beings, which Levine argues is extant in Western Europe.
She also has written columns for New York Woman and. Her column "Poli Psy" in the Vermont weekly Seven Days was named Best Political Column in 2006 by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Levine has written on sex, gender, aging, consumerism, and culture for dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, AARP The Magazine, and. She is a board member of the National Center for Reason and Justice and the Vermont chapter of the ACLU. Judith Levine (born 1952) is an American author, journalist, civil libertarian and co-founder of the National Writers Union, a trade union of contract and freelance writers, and No More Nice Girls, a group dedicated to promoting abortion rights through street theater. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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