Iran: Sexual Apartheid in Iran
by Mahin Hassibi The repression of women is the only visible “accomplishment” of the fundamentalist regime. Sixteen years ago, the ...
by Mahin Hassibi The repression of women is the only visible “accomplishment” of the fundamentalist regime. Sixteen years ago, the ...
by Suzanne Levine Ever wonder how the term “politically correct” became a fashionable assault weapon against progressive thinking on college ...
by Martha Shelley “MY SISTER ENDED HER LIFE AS AN ACT OF PROTEST against the way the Islamic Republic is treating ...
by Lynn Phillips From welfare to un-fare? That’s how it will go unless feminists rally behind better reforms. SAY YOU ...
by Merle Hoffman The Congressman arrived flushed with triumph. He had just been part of the victorious vote on the ...
by Merle Hoffman Somewhere in the course of planning my latest journey to Russia I lost my fear of flying. ...
by Louise Armstrong IN 1978, WHEN PEOPLE ASKED WHAT I’D WRITTEN ABOUT, I’d say “incest.” And they would then most ...
by Eleanor Pam When Lawton Chiles, Governor of Florida, recently announced that his state would deny foster care to undocumented ...
by Lillian Afrkano Clearly, the home shopping church has its own convention for testifying. An ionizer for $29? A beaded ...
by Elaine Rapping As everyone must surely have been reminded more than once by now, this summer marks the 25th ...
by Merle Hoffman Why haven’t candidates, especially, women candidates, made violence against women – and specifically rape – a central ...
by Mary E. Hunt Patricia M. is a history and women’s studies professor at a university where feminism is still ...
by Suzanne Levine Longing to be independent, exuberant, popular, sexy, and slim? The tobacco industry spends more than $4 billion ...
by Merle Hoffman Question: What would you do if you found yourself in a room with Hitler, Mussolini, and an ...
by Merle Hoffman Nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of death. Contemplating the cessation of being immediately changes priorities. ...
by Gina Ogden Women who what?” “Women Who Love Sex,” I repeat to the interviewer on the telephone. “That’s what ...
by Bonnie Pfister What’s an activist to do when everyone from George Will to “Saturday Night Live” satirizes your work ...
by Fred Pelka EXPOSING HEALTH CHAUVINISM “Nothing comes to an individual that he has not…summoned…. A person’s external circumstances do ...
by Elayne Clift “You’ll have to have a hysterectomy, of course,” my doctor said nearly three years ago. Maybe, I ...
by Andrea Wolper Resort hotels should be filled with laughter, but in March 1993 the atmosphere at this one in ...
by Loretta J. Ross Dorothy Brown, MD, the first black female surgeon in the U.S., was also the first American ...
by Elayne Clift The controversial Arkansas physician answered questions from ON THE ISSUES contributing editor Elayne Clift in November, 1993. ...
by Phyllis Chesler These are the times that try feminist souls. “Femininity” is back – even among feminists – and ...
by John Stoltenberg This is written to men – but so that women can overhear every word. It discloses some ...
by Neil deMause It was September of 1991, and thing were looking up for foes of the bogus clinics that ...
by Merle Hoffman All told 1985 was not an unusually dangerous year. There had been a rash of fire bombings ...
by Lynn Phillips We’re supposed to revere our feminist foremothers, but most of us don’t. One friend of mine describes ...
by Maxine Lipner Imagine having oral contraceptives as available as aspirin – a steady supply no further away than the ...
by Ronni Sandroff AS THE DAUGHTER OF TWO LABOR ORGANIZERS, my early childhood education included how to spot FBI agents ...
by Heather Rhoads Arch-conservative Phyllis Schlafly and long-time ERA proponent Ellie Smeal came head-to-head in Iowa last year, where “shocking” ...
By Neil deMause The murder of David Gunn was just the warning shot in a right-wing campaign to cleanse America ...
by Jeannine O. Howitz I am seven months pregnant, slithering along my kitchen floor. The ruler I clutch is for ...
by Ellen Levy Listening to feminists wage war over anti-pornography legislation is a bit like watching characters face off in ...