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Shira Tarrant
writer
Shira Tarrant is the author of *When Sex Became Gender* and editor of the provocative anthology *Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power*. Her work has appeared in *Bitch*, *off our backs*, *Women's Studies Quarterly*, *Genre* magazine, and *The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism*. Tarrant is the column editor for "The Man Files" at the popular blog *Girl With Pen*.