by Merle Hoffman I KNEW THAT THINGS HAD CHANGED WHEN I WAS HANDED a button that read “I’m Pro-Choice and …
by Marlene C. Piturro “I don’t regard Mrs. Chan as a woman. She’s far too forceful and inflexible in her …
by Laurel Touby A gift of this magnitude was bound to alter our fiscal interactions (and, who knows, maybe foment …
by Leah Rose Was it murder or self-defense? Some legal experts and activists in Ulster County, N.Y. say the jurors …
by Jill Johnston In May 1989 the Danish Parliament granted lesbians and gay men the right to civil marriage — …
by Mahin Hassibi No need for a revolution from within — or without. Let them eat Prozac. LIKE MANY PSYCHIATRISTS, …
Love has long been a source of power for women — at times our sole means of influence. “A woman’s …
by Phyllis Chesler It is time, and Second Wave* feminists are beginning to document their salad days. In the late …
by Deborah Horan As Daniela Khalaf sits in the air-conditioned studio of the nascent Palestine Broadcast Corp. where she anchors …
by Marge Piercy How dare a woman choose?Choose to be pregnant,choose to be childless,choose to be lesbian,choose to have two …
by Carolyn Gage “I hear a lot of talk about women forgiving men. I don’t believe it. I have experienced …
by Merle Hoffman Carol Adams sees feminism as a visionary philosophy that includes stewardship of the earth. Over the years, On …
by John Stoltenberg Heresy raises hell — like when Copernicus said, “The sun does not revolve around the earth.” So …
by Peggy Simpson The fight to regain reproductive rights The scaffolding covering the Chopin Palace in Warsaw didn’t hide the …
by Merle Hoffman For in other ways, a woman Is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold Steel; …
by Phyllis Chesler Like most women, I’ve been sexually harassed by my professors, employers, boyfriends, and husbands – and by …
by Olivia James “IN MY DAY, IT ALL STARTED when you were fourteen. . .at Easter time,” she says, pulling …
Bella Abzug, “the Bronx’s gift to the nation, and now the world,” was awarded the 1994 Veteran Feminists of America …
by Laura Flanders One week after Aristide’s return to Haiti, ON THE ISSUES sent journalist Laura Flanders to Port-au-Prince to …
by Patricia Riley Dunlap Mocking poetry graced each issue of the The Reply. The 1913 “A Dream of Fair Women” …
The Chinese government did their best to see that we had as little contact as possible with the people of …
by Frances Kissling Fundamentalism responds to people’s fear of the modern world, and there are some very good reasons to …
by Julie Mertus News from the women’s conference was dominated by matters of a more sensational sort: Would Hillary speak? …
by Jeannette Batz “Basically, you’ll learn how breast examinations should be done, then you’ll teach and evaluate the medical students,” …
by Phyllis Chesler It’s almost as if people expect men to rape, beat, and murder women and children. No one’s …
by Merle Hoffman By nature, I am a romantic and have had warrior fantasies since my early adolescence. Surrounding myself …
by Marlene C. Piturro Legal secretary Rena Weeks was astonished when a jury awarded her $7.1 million dollars for being …
by Nicole Bokat “I did it!” a beaming Elizabeth announced to our mother’s group. “Chloe was born naturally” The other …
by Elayne Rapping In a review of the autobiography of Norma McCorvey—the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade—in a recent …
By Edith Pearlman The Ugly Duchess haunts me. She has haunted me since our first encounter, when I was seven. …
by Mary Lou Greenberg Anti-abortion leader and former Ku Klux Klan member John Burt and two of his associates called …
by Katherine Eban Finkelstein Under George Bush, the halls and rooms of the White House were closed to us. We …
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