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1998 Summer

The Tyranny of the Esthetic Surgery’s Most Intimate Violation

by Martha Coventry Sexual conformity at the point of a knife is being forced on women whose genitals are declared …

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1996 Summer

Why Annie Got Her Gun

by Carolyn Gage ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world’s champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to …

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1997 Winter

IS A BAD DAD BETTER THAN NO DAD?
The myth of the male role model
by Olga Silverstein

ALARM BELLS ARE SOUNDING THROUGHOUT THE nation over the phenomenon of the absentee father. And with good reason – though …

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1998 Summer

Zen and the Art of Motherhood

Pioneer, visionary, feminist, mentor, revolutionary, woman of the people, principled politician. She had a great heart and extraordinary energy – …

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1999 Winter

War On Drugs, War On Women

by Maia Szalavitz “Female addicts are seen as doubly deviant. A drunk man is one thing, but a drunken woman …

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1999 Winter

Nowhere to Hide: Everyday warrior Patricia Baird-Windle

by Eleanor J. Bader Like many survivors of war, 63-year-old Patricia Baird-Windle suffers from chronic Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS). …

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1999 Winter

Stop the Pain

by Penney Kome All day long she twists and flexes her wrist to scan products, lifts bags that can total …

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1999 Winter

Serving the Sentence: From both sides of the bars

by Deborah Shouse My friend Elizabeth is in prison. “Please send me poetry books,” she writes. I imagine her sitting …

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1999 Winter

Fidelistas and Feministas: Cuban women in crisis

by Amy Martin Caridad walks Havana’s famous sea wall, the Malecon, in tall orange pumps. She has squeezed her skinny …

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1999 Winter

The Hormone Wars: Mothers, Daughters and Estrogen

by Loretta Williams It started just as the bus left the expressway. The familiar warmth began somewhere near my waistline, …

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1999 Winter

Replacing PROZAC with PLATO

by Merle Hoffman THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELINGInterview with Lou Marinoff by Merle Hoffman Call me elitist, but I have always …

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1999 Winter

CRAZY IN AMERICA: National Failure, Family Tragedy

by Bill Weiner I must be crazy. I’m one of those social worker types, and the folks I run into …

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1999 Winter

My Grandmother’s Stories

by Jody Lannen Brady My grandmother told me the same stories over and over. Many times she’d recount the tale …

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1998 Winter

A Whole New Ball Game

by Angell Delaney Playing like a girl is no longer an insult. It’s a HOOP DREAM millions aspire to.Thousands of …

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1998 Winter

A Life of One’s Own “The End of the Novel of Love” Reviewed by Mahin Hassibi, M.D.

The underlying assumption of this new book by literary critic Vivian Gornick is that love — despite all we’ve been …

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1998 Fall

Saving the World : Motherhood as Advocacy

by Michelle Brockway She crouched behind the bed and whispered into the phone. She had called the police, she said. …

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1998 Fall

America’s Political Prisoners

by Mary Lou Greenberg Glaring artificial light 24 hours a day, no sense of time, constant surveillance, every remark recorded, …

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1998 Fall

Fountain of Youth

Film Review by Molly Haskell Of course, exceptionally good-looking and/or successful men, the Alpha males of the tribe, have always …

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1998 Fall

A MEDITATION ON THE SEA

by Phyllis Chesler When in doubt or trouble, but also in times of joy, I always return to the sea: …

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1998 Fall

Layli Bashir Unexpected Crusader

by Kavita Menon …She said she would keep fighting for me until I was free. She was like an angel, …

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1998 Fall

Turnout Or Turnoff Women’s Vote is Key in 1998

by Tanya Melich For both parties, the stakes in this November’s off-year election are higher than usual. The 11-vote Republican …

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1998 Fall

Place At The Table: Woman At The Un

by Jennifer Tierney The colossal bureaucracy of the United Nations, with its bloated underbelly of agencies, commissions and special advisors …

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1998 Fall

Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma’s Gandhi

by Alan Clements …it is more important to understand the mentality of torturers than just to concentrate on what kind …

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1998 Fall

Today Harvard Tomorrow The World

by Swanee Hunt Change never travels in a straight line, so when Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to …

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1998 Fall

Poetry Redux

by Merle Hoffmnan I had gone to bed in my habitual way — very late, with some difficulty, the muted …

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1998 Summer

To Be Male or To Be Female That Is the Question:
Gender, Sex and Politics in Shakespeare

by Marilyn Stasio When Sarah Bernhardt played Hamlet in 1899, two French critics disagreed so violently about her performance that …

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1998 Summer

Out of the Loop and Out of Print

by Kate Millett Another season at the farm, not that bad, but not that good either: the tedium of a …

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1998 Summer

Buried Alive: Afghan Women Under the Taliban

by Jan Goodwin February 27, 1998 –Thirty-thousand men and boys poured into the dilapidated Olympic sports stadium in Kabul, capital …

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1998 Summer

“Passing”: Life in Black and White

by Toi Derricotte I’m sure most people don’t go around all the time thinking about what race they are. When …

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1998 Summer

When “Pro-Life” Means Death

by Mary Lou Greenberg As I held in my hand the sharp slivers of glass that were now the only …

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1998 Summer

What’s a Feminist to Do?

by Merle Hoffman No passionate love letters, no dark night of the soul; just a demand to kiss it — …

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1998 Spring

RESEARCH FOR YOUR LIFE : Investigating your own health care

by Katherine Eban Finkelstein …many sick people consider research the only way to keep tabs on the doctors they don’t …

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1998 Spring

When death is a constant companion: Why Women Reporters Go to War

by Marilyn Stasio Between the depression and the danger, the fear and the futility, what makes these women go through …

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