Claiming Sacred Ground
by Phyllis Chesler Women’s eight-year struggle to pray out loud at “the Wailing Wall” 1 Jewish women were first ordained as ...
by Phyllis Chesler Women’s eight-year struggle to pray out loud at “the Wailing Wall” 1 Jewish women were first ordained as ...
by Eleanor J. Bader DEEP IN THE BELLY OF AMERICAN POVERTY lies the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, ...
On The Issues selected a few people to read an advance copy of Teresa Yunker‘s story about street harassment. Here’s what they ...
By Deborah Johnson SHE’S 48 YEARS OLD WITH TIGHT RED CURLS AND BAGS BEneath her eyes. She slouches slightly in ...
by Gillian Murphy Greenpeace; Tahiti, August 23, 1995THE DECK HANDS ARE HAULING IN THE MOORING LINES. I’m standing on the ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg Levels of clinic violence in 1995 declined substantially, according to a recent report by the Feminist ...
by Deborah Cooksey & Marilyn Easter Q: What do you call hiring a nephew? A: White Affirmative Action We hate ...
by Teresa Yunker Hey, babee! Hot-lookin’chick, man! Whoa-ee! Why dontcha wear somethin’tight?” “Fuck off!” I screamed, whirling around to face ...
by Merle Hoffman Everest — avatar of the Himalayas.Everest — whom the Nepalese call Sagamartha and the Tibetans call Chomolungma ...
REVIEWED BY SALLY OWEN Media coverage of the Million Man March on Washington generated five stories for every one accorded ...
by Kay Mills In these anxious times, will women make a difference?Only if they’re on the ballot. Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder’s ...
by Sheila Jeffreys Why has the Big O seduced so many feminists — even Ms. — into a counterrevolution from ...
REVIEWED BY ELEANOR J. BADER Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus:A Practical Guide for Improving Communications and Getting ...
by MERLE HOFFMAN Elizabeth I had a proper perspective on political marriage. Having seen both her mother and her stepmother ...
by Peggy Simpson At 32, Irene Pivetti is the youngest speaker of the Italian Parliament in history. Irene Pivetti has ...
by Jill Johnston I HAVE FLOWN TO LONDON, MY BIRTHPLACE, ON many occasions as an adult, but last September I went ...
by Dawn and Mary E. Atkins a daughter’s story by Dawn E. Atkins I am the daughter of a fat ...
by Sally Roesch Wagner The Untold Iroquois Influence on Early Radical Feminists: An intrepid historian tracks down the source of ...
by Jennifer Gonnerman IN THE POSH BALLROOM OF CINCINNATI’S OMNI Netherland Plaza hotel, a 69-year-old man with a white, wicker ...
By Bryna Taubman Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship.’ The Pali Canon (sacred scriptures of ...
Dropping the laboring woman on the bed was an ancient method of hastening childbirth among the ancient Greeks in the ...
By Anonymous EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this true account led an apparently respectable life for over 20 years while ...
by Merle Hoffman The symptoms arrived a few years ago. At first I experienced them as a generalized discomfort, amorphous ...
by Andrea Peyser It took only minutes from the time some unseen hand blew a hole in the heart of ...
with Julianne Malveaux The image, self-esteem and activism of African American women were the subjects of a wide-ranging conversation, arranged ...
by Andrea Dworkin Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Real Story of the Bill of Rights Why isn’t the Constitution ...
by Kathleen Barry Across nation-states, pimping, “living off the earnings of a prostitute,” is illegal. But pro-prostitution movements in the ...
by Ronni Sandroff Social values support the “act” of marriage, but conspire against romance, passion, and equal relationships. “I’m definitely ...
By Diana E. H. Russell How many ACLU lawyers does it take to screw over women harmed by porn? Try ...
RESPECT FOR STARTER RELATIONSHIPS While living together was not unheard of in the 1960s and 1970s, it usually quickly led ...