by Martha Coventry Sexual conformity at the point of a knife is being forced on women whose genitals are declared …
by Carolyn Gage ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world’s champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to …
ALARM BELLS ARE SOUNDING THROUGHOUT THE nation over the phenomenon of the absentee father. And with good reason – though …
Pioneer, visionary, feminist, mentor, revolutionary, woman of the people, principled politician. She had a great heart and extraordinary energy – …
by Maia Szalavitz “Female addicts are seen as doubly deviant. A drunk man is one thing, but a drunken woman …
by Eleanor J. Bader Like many survivors of war, 63-year-old Patricia Baird-Windle suffers from chronic Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS). …
by Penney Kome All day long she twists and flexes her wrist to scan products, lifts bags that can total …
by Deborah Shouse My friend Elizabeth is in prison. “Please send me poetry books,” she writes. I imagine her sitting …
by Amy Martin Caridad walks Havana’s famous sea wall, the Malecon, in tall orange pumps. She has squeezed her skinny …
by Loretta Williams It started just as the bus left the expressway. The familiar warmth began somewhere near my waistline, …
by Merle Hoffman THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELINGInterview with Lou Marinoff by Merle Hoffman Call me elitist, but I have always …
by Bill Weiner I must be crazy. I’m one of those social worker types, and the folks I run into …
by Jody Lannen Brady My grandmother told me the same stories over and over. Many times she’d recount the tale …
by Angell Delaney Playing like a girl is no longer an insult. It’s a HOOP DREAM millions aspire to.Thousands of …
The underlying assumption of this new book by literary critic Vivian Gornick is that love — despite all we’ve been …
by Michelle Brockway She crouched behind the bed and whispered into the phone. She had called the police, she said. …
by Mary Lou Greenberg Glaring artificial light 24 hours a day, no sense of time, constant surveillance, every remark recorded, …
Film Review by Molly Haskell Of course, exceptionally good-looking and/or successful men, the Alpha males of the tribe, have always …
by Phyllis Chesler When in doubt or trouble, but also in times of joy, I always return to the sea: …
by Kavita Menon …She said she would keep fighting for me until I was free. She was like an angel, …
by Tanya Melich For both parties, the stakes in this November’s off-year election are higher than usual. The 11-vote Republican …
by Jennifer Tierney The colossal bureaucracy of the United Nations, with its bloated underbelly of agencies, commissions and special advisors …
by Alan Clements …it is more important to understand the mentality of torturers than just to concentrate on what kind …
by Swanee Hunt Change never travels in a straight line, so when Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to …
by Merle Hoffmnan I had gone to bed in my habitual way — very late, with some difficulty, the muted …
by Marilyn Stasio When Sarah Bernhardt played Hamlet in 1899, two French critics disagreed so violently about her performance that …
by Kate Millett Another season at the farm, not that bad, but not that good either: the tedium of a …
by Jan Goodwin February 27, 1998 –Thirty-thousand men and boys poured into the dilapidated Olympic sports stadium in Kabul, capital …
by Toi Derricotte I’m sure most people don’t go around all the time thinking about what race they are. When …
by Mary Lou Greenberg As I held in my hand the sharp slivers of glass that were now the only …
by Merle Hoffman No passionate love letters, no dark night of the soul; just a demand to kiss it — …
by Katherine Eban Finkelstein …many sick people consider research the only way to keep tabs on the doctors they don’t …
by Marilyn Stasio Between the depression and the danger, the fear and the futility, what makes these women go through …
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