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1996 Summer

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 …

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1996 Summer

Living Hell

by Eleanor J. Bader DEEP IN THE BELLY OF AMERICAN POVERTY lies the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, …

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1996 Spring

Talking Back About Talking Back

On The Issues selected a few people to read an advance copy of Teresa Yunker‘s story about street harassment. Here’s what they …

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1996 Summer

WOMEN WHO TRUST TOO MUCH – What AIDS commercials don’t tell you

By Deborah Johnson SHE’S 48 YEARS OLD WITH TIGHT RED CURLS AND BAGS BEneath her eyes. She slouches slightly in …

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1996 Summer

How I set sail from Tahiti to stop the bomb

by Gillian Murphy Greenpeace; Tahiti, August 23, 1995THE DECK HANDS ARE HAULING IN THE MOORING LINES. I’m standing on the …

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1996 Summer

Our Clinics/Ourselves: Defending Providers Is Up to Us

by Mary Lou Greenberg Levels of clinic violence in 1995 declined substantially, according to a recent report by the Feminist …

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1996 Summer

Affirmative Action

by Deborah Cooksey & Marilyn Easter Q: What do you call hiring a nephew? A: White Affirmative Action We hate …

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1996 Summer

When Street Harassment Gets Nasty

by Teresa Yunker Hey, babee! Hot-lookin’chick, man! Whoa-ee! Why dontcha wear somethin’tight?” “Fuck off!” I screamed, whirling around to face …

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1996 Summer

Peak Experience

by Merle Hoffman Everest — avatar of the Himalayas.Everest — whom the Nepalese call Sagamartha and the Tibetans call Chomolungma …

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1996 Spring

Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid

REVIEWED BY SALLY OWEN Media coverage of the Million Man March on Washington generated five stories for every one accorded …

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1996 Spring

E l e c t i o n ‘ 9 6 : RUNNING SCARED

by Kay Mills In these anxious times, will women make a difference?Only if they’re on the ballot. Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder’s …

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1996 Spring

How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women’s Movement

by Sheila Jeffreys Why has the Big O seduced so many feminists — even Ms. — into a counterrevolution from …

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1996 Spring

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus;

REVIEWED BY ELEANOR J. BADER Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus:A Practical Guide for Improving Communications and Getting …

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1996 Spring

Marriage As Realpolitik

by MERLE HOFFMAN Elizabeth I had a proper perspective on political marriage. Having seen both her mother and her stepmother …

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1996 Spring

Irene Pivetti: The Hot Politics of Italy’s Ice Maiden

by Peggy Simpson At 32, Irene Pivetti is the youngest speaker of the Italian Parliament in history. Irene Pivetti has …

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1996 Spring

L500 With Interest

by Jill Johnston I HAVE FLOWN TO LONDON, MY BIRTHPLACE, ON many occasions as an adult, but last September I went …

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1996 Winter

Fed Up with the Diet Industry

by Dawn and Mary E. Atkins a daughter’s story by Dawn E. Atkins I am the daughter of a fat …

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1996 Winter

Trojan Horses

by Merle Hoffman M E R L E H O F F M A N | O N T H …

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1996 Winter

IS EQUALITY INDIGENOUS?

by Sally Roesch Wagner The Untold Iroquois Influence on Early Radical Feminists: An intrepid historian tracks down the source of …

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1996 Fall

The Anti-Abortion Stealth Campaign

by Jennifer Gonnerman IN THE POSH BALLROOM OF CINCINNATI’S OMNI Netherland Plaza hotel, a 69-year-old man with a white, wicker …

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1995 Winter

One By One: Single by choice and chance

By Bryna Taubman Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship.’ The Pali Canon (sacred scriptures of …

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1995 Winter

Can Separate Be Equal in Women’s Health? OTI Interview with Eileen Hoffman

Dropping the laboring woman on the bed was an ancient method of hastening childbirth among the ancient Greeks in the …

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1995 Winter

Confessions of a Child Molester

By Anonymous EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this true account led an apparently respectable life for over 20 years while …

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1995 Fall

Body Ethics

by Merle Hoffman The symptoms arrived a few years ago. At first I experienced them as a generalized discomfort, amorphous …

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1995 Fall

OKLAHOMA DIARY: Heartsick in the Heartland

by Andrea Peyser It took only minutes from the time some unseen hand blew a hole in the heart of …

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1995 Fall

Bum Raps, “Bubbas”, and Affirmative Action

with Julianne Malveaux The image, self-esteem and activism of African American women were the subjects of a wide-ranging conversation, arranged …

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1995 Fall

Bike Lust

by Barbara Joans hree days ago, I picked up my new bike, a Harley-Davidson Lowrider (FXD). She’s black, of course, …

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1995 Fall

The Bill of Whose Rights?

by Andrea Dworkin Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Real Story of the Bill of Rights Why isn’t the Constitution …

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1995 Fall

Write What You Want, as Long as It’s About Sex

by Shere Hite

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1995 Summer

Pimping: The World’s Oldest Profession

by Kathleen Barry Across nation-states, pimping, “living off the earnings of a prostitute,” is illegal. But pro-prostitution movements in the …

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1995 Summer

State-of-the-Couple Report

by Ronni Sandroff Social values support the “act” of marriage, but conspire against romance, passion, and equal relationships. “I’m definitely …

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1995 Summer

NADINE STROSSEN : The Pornography Industry’s Wet Dream

By Diana E. H. Russell How many ACLU lawyers does it take to screw over women harmed by porn? Try …

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1995 Summer

Relationship trends we’d like to see

RESPECT FOR STARTER RELATIONSHIPS While living together was not unheard of in the 1960s and 1970s, it usually quickly led …

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