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Spring 2010
Sharing the Joy of Resistance Through Radio by Fran Luck
A Feminist’s U-Turn: A Torrid Tale of Disappointment and Discovery by Megan Carpentier
Thinking About Hollywood: Breaking the Entertainment Barrier by Jaye Austin Williams
Practicing Freedom: An Enduring Model in Anne Frank by Maureen McNeil
Women’s Liberation Consciousness-Raising: Then and Now by Carol Hanisch
The Art Perspective presents a mini-retrospective of the art of Michelle Stuart
Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It by Jennifer L. Pozner
Three Habits of the Heart and Mind To Spark Cultural Awakening by Arlene Goldbard
Dispatches from the Road: A Travelogue of True Stories by Barbara Becker
On The Frontlines: A Counselor Must Address A Gauntlet of Lies by Mary Lou Greenberg
Equality for Women: Insights from My Grandfather by Maame-Mensima Horne
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Health, Medicine
On the Frontlines: A Counselor Must Address a Gauntlet of Lies, Mary Lou Greenberg, Spring 2010, abortion clinic, sex education
Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education, Rev. Rebecca Turner, Spring 2010, Religion, Faith-Based education, sex, youth
With the Understanding of Ghandi, Aminatou Put Her Life on the Line, Barbara Becker Winter 2010, Gandhi, hunger strike, Western Sahara
Mahin Hassibi, Visionary Ideas, Thinking Out Loud, The Editors, Winter, 2010, Mahin Hassibi, psychiatry
Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti, Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 2010, Dr. Evans Crevecoeur, Haiti earthquake, Choices Women's Medical Center, Project Medishare
Convictions to Action: Lessons From Margaret Sanger, Gloria Feldt, Winter 2010, reproductive rights, birth control
Healthcare Compromise: Low-Income Women Get Bumped, Jen Nedeau, Fall 2009, Stupak- Pitts amendment, Hyde amendment, anti-abortion amendment
The Next Seven Generations: Reclaiming Healthy Sexuality for Native Youth, Jessica Yee, Fall 2009, Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Teens and Indian Health Service: Saving Both, Resa Crane Bizzaro, Fall 2009, Native Americans, mortality rates
Exclusive: Women of Color Push Boundaries on Reproductive Justice, Natalie Bell, Fall 2009, SisterSong, Stupak-Pitts amendment
The First of all Liberties: Making Health Care Meet All Women's Needs, Eesha Pandit, Fall 2009, reproductive justice
Trans Health Care Is a Life and Death Matter, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 2009, transsexual health, Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center, Southern Comfort Conference, Robert Eads
Activists Boost Female Health Empowerment, Eleanor J. Bader, Spring 2009, Our Bodies Ourselves, sex work
Taking a Stand on Hospitals, and Meaning It, Lois Uttley, Spring 2009, hospital mergers, end-of-life choices, reproductive health care
Taking Multimedia Action to Stop HIV-AIDS in Youth, Simon Fisher, Spring 2009 Cafe, AIDS epidemic, Beyondmedia Education
The Plight of Pregnancy, Maternal Mortality in Developing Nations, Sarah Hackley, childbirth deaths, UN Milennium goals, Gambia
Midwifery Reborn: Politicians Take Note, Lesley Cohen, Winter 2009 Café, childbirth, midwives, nurse-midwives
A Do-Over for Reproductive Justice, Gloria Feldt, Winter 2009 Café, abortion rights, Roe v. Wade, privacy rights, Griswold v. Connecticut
Our Architecture Ourselves, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Winter 2009, housing as a right, environmental sustainability, wellness center, utopian communities, human interdependence
Health Care ‘Reform’ Is Not Enough, Susan Yanow, Winter 2009, health insurance, Hyde Amendment, Medicaid, abortion restrictions, single-payer health insurance, Catholic hospitals, preventive care
San Francisco Health Care Clinic Makes Sex Workers at Home, Carol Stuart, Summer 2008, prostitution, sex work, COYOTE, Margo St. James
Plus ca Change, Merle Hoffman, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, gender inequality and HIV/AIDS
In the US, AIDS Spreads Rapid-Fire and Crosses the Gender Divide, Molly M. Ginty, May 2008, HIV, AIDS
Saving the Next Generation, Nancy Genova, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, women at risk, prenatal care
What is a Woman Worth? The Global Story is the Feminization of a Pandemic, Marcy Bloom, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, International AIDS Conference, misogyny
Break the Silence, End the Stigma, Mary Lou Greenberg, May 2008, HIV, AIDS, ACTUP, Silence = Death, amFAR, Susan Blumenthal
“I Don’t Want to Write the Book,” AIDS and Listening to Women, Sharon Walton, May 2008, Shanti Project, HIV
 “In the Continuum” Tells Women’s Missing HIV Stories, Alexis Greene, May 2008, HIV and theater
Bad Thoughts, right-wing on HIV/AIDS, May 2008
No Place Left to Bury the Dead, Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic by Nicole Itano reviewed by Eleanor Bader, May 2008, AIDS, Africa
Once The Silence Has Been Broken, Mehret Mandefro, May 2008, HIV, AIDS
Women with AIDS, Off the Radar Screen, Janine Avril, May 2008
Media Missteps + Misogyny = Death for Women, Mary Lou Greenberg, May 2008
The Down Low Effect, Natalie Bell, May 2008, closeted bisexual men
Time to Rethink Global HIV/AIDS Care, Nicole Itano, May 2008
Global Gag Rule Poses Moral Challenge for US HIV/AIDS Funding, Marjorie Signer, May 2008, PEPFAR, Religious Coalition for Reproductive choice, gag rule
Art Still Vital to AIDS Activism, Larry Schulte, May 2008
Not Enough Women Use Web Resources, Cindy Cooper, May 2008, HIV, AIDS diagnosis, PatientsLikeMe
African Women with AIDS Rebuffed for Life-Saving Care, Lisa Vives, May 2008, HIV Uganda, refugees
High Rates of HIV and STDs Show the US is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights, Cynthis Soohoo and Katrina Anderson, May 2008, Convention on the Rights of Children, abstinence-only, contraception
Talking Shop in the Medical Field: the Unfolding of a Strange New Disease, Mahin Hassibi, May 2008, HIV, AIDS
Having Children when You Have HIV – Still a Problem? Dr. Ann Boyer, May 2008, childbirth, conception
Replacing Prozac with Plato, Interview with Lou Marinoff, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1999, counseling, Socratic tradition, ethics, morality
Crazy in America, Bill Weiner, Winter 1999, mental illness
CRAZY IN AMERICA: National Failure, Family Tragedy by Bill Weiner, Winter 1999, mental illness
Stop the Pain, Penny Kome, Winter 1998, workplace injuries
Research for Your Life: Investigating Your Own Health Care, Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Spring 1998, cancer, alternative medicine, chemotherapy
The Bitter Pill, Leora Tanenbaum, Winter 1998, premarin, medical establishment, HRT
Beyond the Halsted Radical, books on breast cancer reviewed by Barbara Seaman, Fall 1997
Women Healers Past & Present: An Historical View of Women in Medicine from Earliest Times to Today by Beatrice Levin
The Mystery and Tragedy of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1997
WOMEN WHO TRUST TOO MUCH: What AIDS commercials don't tell you, Deborah Johnson, Summer 1996, AIDS
Breast Intentions: Enlightening Medical Students about Female Bodies, Jeannette Batz, Winter 1995
Natural Childbirth, Nicole Bokat, Winter 1995
Can Separate Be Equal in Women's Health?, Dr. Eileen M. Hoffman, Winter 1995
Why Change the World When You Can Have a Prozac Moment?, Mahin Hassibi, Summer 1995, depression, psychotherapy, psychiatry
Foal Play, Dot Hayes, Fall 1994, estrogen, HRT, premarin, menopause
Death Takes the Stage, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1994, Jack Kevorkian, right-to-die, death and dying
Isn't It Enough to Make You Scream?, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1991, contraception, Gag Rule, reproductive health
Medical E.R.A., Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, medical establishment, Roe v Wade
Love and Death on 86, Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, AIDS
Smoke Yourself Thin, Suzanne Levine, Summer 1994
Every Child a Wanted Child, A Conversation with Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Elaine Clift, Spring 1994
My Uterus, Myself, Elayne Clift, Spring 1994, hysterectomy
"Sick? It's Your Own Fault", Fred Pelka, Spring 1994
Healthcare for All - Will It Be Good for Women? Elaine Clift, Summer 1993
Taking Issue with Fetal Tissue, Are Women Being Conned? Janice G. Raymond, Spring 1993
Making babies, Miracle or Marketing Hype? Elayne Clift, Spring 1993
Why It's a Good Idea, Rebecca Chalker, Spring 1993
Why It's Not, Louise Tyrer, Spring 1993
The Whats Hows And Whys Of Menstrual Extraction by Rebecca Chalker
Paying the Price in the Politics of Breast Cancer, Neal Barnard, M.D., Winter 1992
Excised – Reflections on My Uterus, Lois Green Stone, Summer 1992
Goodbye to White Male Privilege: Women Challenge Health Care Research, Elayne Clift, Winter 1991, clinical trials
Critiques of the New Contraceptives: After Norplant, What's Next? Jill Benderly, RU Angry? Rhona Mahoney, RU Sure? Jill Benderly, Summer 1991
On Donor Babies, The Ethics of Using One Child to Save Another, Barbara Katz Rothman, Winter 1990
Sexual Malpractice, Therapists Who Seduce their Patients, Fred Pelka, Vol 13 1989
NO MANDATORY TESTING! A Feminist Prostitute Speaks Out, Carol Leigh, Vol 10 1988
HIV-Positive Women Have Rights Too, Barbara Santee, Vol 10 1988
Sex, Politics and Psychology, Ray Rakow, M.D., Vol 9 1988
Women's Magazines Can be Dangerous to Your Health, Ellen R. Gritz, Vol 7 1987, cigarette advertising, smoking, lung cancer
