A Survivor Remembers: America’s Most Recent Major “Witch Hunt”
by Patricia Lynden The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities (HUAC) had been in existence since 1937, but it was not ...
by Patricia Lynden The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities (HUAC) had been in existence since 1937, but it was not ...
by Merle Hoffman It was one of those defining moments: I am watching the finals of the Miss USA pageant ...
by Eleanor J. Bader “All I ever wanted to do was write,” says 39-year-old National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay ...
by Paola D’Ellesio Although I didn’t realize it at the time, for me the destructive, generational, abusive cycle that was ...
By Eleanor J. Bader We’ve come a long way in examining the mother-daughter relationship but still need to examine the ...
and the Militant Mothers of East LA. By Betsy Swart Latina women demand a safe environment for their children My ...
By Fred Pelka It was obvious to me at the police station that I was held in contempt because I ...
by Beatrice Levin WHEN COMPASSION WAS THE ONLY MEDICINE From earliest times, women have nursed the sick and cared for ...
By Elayne Clift Women from around the world meet in Florida to challenge the powers that be. QUOTABLE QUOTES “If ...
By Patricia Lynden A radical defense lawyer describes her deep commitment to justice and why she went to prison to ...
by Betsy Swart Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is a pioneer in the campaign for civil rights in the North of Ireland. ...
by John W. Bartlett “The Indonesians set fire to the dwellings of East Timorese… When protested, the Indonesians turned ...
by Neal Barnard, M.D In 1991, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine commissioned a survey asking how many women were ...
by Elaine Clift hen Suzanne Hadley said “no” to her boss last year, “it seemed like the most natural thing ...
by Barbara Bolz A large woman clutches a ragged teddy bear to her chest. An older woman caresses the arm ...
by Susan Bristol-Howard Sixteen years ago Ellen Moore traveled to California to visit friends and recover from a painful divorce. ...
by Jill Benderly PRAGUE — I’m in the waiting room of Czechoslovakia’s Royal Palace, a lavender Baroque edifice perched above ...
by Shannon Moon Leonetti I don’t spend as much time in the restaurant actually serving and cooking like I used ...
by Eleanor Bader One word comes to mind after a few minutes in the company of Jane Lazarre: Intense. She ...
by Merle Hoffman Ihave this fantasy. It’s a variation on that wonderful scene in the movie “Network,” when the eccentric, ...
by Elayne Clift FOOD IRRADIATION IS, AN UNSCRUPULOUS ATTEMPT TO FIND A COMMERCIAL USE ...
by Irene Davall Jill was four months pregnant when she and Alex arrived in The Bahamas for a winter vacation. ...
by Fred Pelka “For generations our institutions, and our parents, have warned us and shamed us away from our wildness ...
As told by Leslie Webster and written by Ginna D. Rose I first heard about the women’s Peace Camp at ...
by Christine Keyser The spirit of Mother Jones lives on today in the backwoods of Northern California. The North Coast’s ...
by Marjorie Cramer, M.D. I sat on the Amtrak train taking me from New York City to Philadelphia. Every movement ...
by Patricia Golan The only time in 15 years of marriage my husband ever hit me was the first time ...
by Jill Benderly Q: Why is a bikini like a doughnut? A: Because they’re both new contraceptives about to come on the ...
by M. Robbyn Swan Barbara, 42, is lying in the middle of the living room floor in a pool of ...
by Merle Hoffman rowing up in Philadelphia in the 1950s was a special kind of wasteland. a time when one’s ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Writer Suzanne Gordon is a woman with a mission. Fiery though soft-spoken, angry yet pleasant, she ...
by Diana Russell Mass killings were considered gender-neutral before Lepine’s frenzied shooting of “fucking feminists” This is one person’s account ...
by Fred Pelka Five months after Mark Stanton Curtis was arrested in Des Moines on charges of sexual abuse and ...