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1998 Spring

Algeria Examined:Tens of Thousands Dead and It’s Barely News

by Laura Flanders There’s a crime against humanity being committed in Algeria, but you wouldn’t get that impression from reading …

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1998 Spring

IRAN: Notes from the Interior

by Merle Hoffman You’re going where? The insistent questioning by family and friends reverberated in my head as I flew over …

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1998 Spring

The Cultural Politics of Fur

Book Review by Carol J. Adams The Cultural Politics of Furby Julia V. Emberley Cornell University Press, 1998 Emberley sees …

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1998 Spring

Books in Brief

Reviewed by Lisa Vincenti and Patricia Baird-Windle The Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War by Jim Risen and Judy …

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1998 Spring

Letter to an Older Feminist

by Sanda Balaban Dear Phyllis: As you know, I was born in 1972, the same year as your book Women and …

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1998 Spring

Letter to a Young Feminist

by Phyllis Chesler Here I sit, head bent, writing you an intimate letter. I sense your presence, even though I …

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1998 Winter

The Bitter Pill

by Leora Tanenbaum BOMBARDED BY PROPAGANDA ON PREMARIN, WE CAN’T TRUST OUR DOCTOR’S AND WE CAN’T TRUST OURSELVES Barbara Dworkin, …

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1998 Winter

My Body, My Choice, My Consent

by Eileen McDonagh CONSENT TO SEX IS NOT CONSENT TO PREGNANCY Nearly 25-years after feminists celebrated Roe v. Wade, many …

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1998 Winter

No Safe Place

By Phyllis Chesler Our Most Vulnerable Female Patients Are Being Raped By The Very People Who Are Supposed To Care …

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1998 Winter

27 Years, but Who’s Counting? Thoughts on yet another Roe v. Wade

by Merle Hoffman For the first time, women were in control of patient referrals and clinics, while physicians were brought …

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1998 Winter

GENESIS II: An Ecofeminist Reclamation Project

by Lynn Wenzel A few years ago, the New York Times reported that 100 million women are “missing” worldwide: victims …

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1998 Winter

Who’s Afraid of Feminism? Seeing Through the Backlash

Book Review by Eleanor J. Bader So who’s afraid of feminism? By the looks of it, just about everyone, including …

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1998 Winter

Polyfidelity or Polyduplicity

Book Review by Carolyn Gage Polyfidelity: “The state of being in ongoing erotic intimacy with more than one woman concurrently …

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1998 Winter

Not A Black And White Issue

by E. Assata Wright FOR BATTERED AND ABUSED LATINAS AND BLACK WOMEN, DIALING 911 MAY BE RISKY BUSINESS I’ve never …

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1997 Winter

DIRTY DANCING: It was another two-party tango, and feminists did not lead

by Jennifer Gonnerman “WHEN WOMEN VOTE, WOMEN WIN.” THAT’S THE slogan on the buttons EMILY’s List was handing out in …

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1997 Winter

Power From My People

by Sabrina Margarita Alcantara When sexual harassment turns racist, I summon up ancestral resistance. I’ve had my share of put-downs …

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1997 Winter

What Women Want by Patricia Ireland

Book Review by Carolyn G. Heilbrun Women’s memoirs have been lavished upon us in recent years, and the genre, while …

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1997 Winter

DO WOMEN & CHILDREN HAVE A PRAYER?
What’s really wrong with the faith of our fathers

by Carter Heyward PATRIARCHAL RELIGION – THE IMAGING AND WORSHIPPING of God solely in the image of the father – …

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1997 Winter

Facing the Dragon: Reflections on Female Heroism

by Merle Hoffman In a world with no more Wests to conquer or empires to build, where risk-taking comes packaged …

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1997 Fall

Beyond the Halsted Radical
Book Reviews by Barbara Seaman

Always a Woman: What Every Woman Should Know About Breast SurgeryPatient No More: The Politics of Breast CancerTo Dance With the Devil: The …

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1997 Fall

The Welfare Bill is Our Bosnia: An Interview with Elizabeth Holtzman

by Rosemary L. Bray About Elizabeth Holtzman:Liz Holtzman burst into public view at age 30, when she won an upset …

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1997 Fall

United Kingdom: New Labour, New Women

by Kelly Candaele At five o’clock A.M. on May 2, newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair climbed atop a …

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1997 Fall

United States: Ain’t I a Voter?

by Wilma Rule and Stephen Hill More than 75 years ago, the Nineteenth Amendment gave American women the right to …

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1997 Fall

Patterns of Power: How Women Vote, Run and Win

by the Editors We, the people of the United States, talk a good game about the blessings of liberty. But …

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1997 Fall

Israel: Wailing at the Wall

by Phyllis Chesler According to those who slander them, women cannot be counted as Jews in a prayer quorum. Women …

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1997 Fall

Unfinished Business

by Janice K. Bryant In the battle over a feminist monument, 150 years of racial tension resurfaces and a question …

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1997 Fall

Animals Escaping Domestic Violence

by Patricia A. Murphy Abusive men frequently use pets to manipulate women’s emotions, beating, shooting, disemboweling, strangling or drowning an …

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1997 Fall

United States: Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Myself!

by Judith K. Witherow On November 5, 1996, I did not vote for Bill C, Ross P., Bob D. or …

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1997 Summer

Warrior Healers of South Africa

by Merle Hoffman “We the People of South AfricaRecognize the injustices of our pasthonor those who suffered for justice and …

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1997 Summer

GIRLS AND THE BUSINESS OF SEX: From Senegal to Philadelphia, girls getting out of “the life.” One Woman With a Mission

by Dylan Foley and Andrea D’Asaro middle of a crackdown on prostitution as part of a campaign against “social evils,” …

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1997 Summer

Can We Talk? Racism and Domestic Violence

A discussion with Tammy Bruce and Julianne Malveaux TURN ON THE RADIO AND LISTEN TO women talk-show hosts. Most likely …

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1997 Summer

The Mystery and Tragedy of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome

by Phyllis Chesler Once asthma, arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Lyme’s disease and allergies were dismissed as primarily psychiatric in nature. …

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1997 Summer

The Wages of Motherhood Is Poverty

Book Reviews by Rita Henley Jenson The Wages of Motherhood Is Poverty Forced low-wage work, racial bias, taking children from …

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