Religious Repugnance Obscures Need for Sex Work Decriminalization
by Rita Nakashima Brock In the mid-1990s, Asian feminists concerned about the sexual exploitation of children and women and the ...
by Rita Nakashima Brock In the mid-1990s, Asian feminists concerned about the sexual exploitation of children and women and the ...
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by Linda Stein I’m caught in an artistic state of transition. I didn’t plan it. It came slowly, over a ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg The action starts at 7 a.m. every Saturday when volunteers start arriving, women and men, some ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Ramona, 32, mother of a four-year-old daughter, is dropped off at the Summit Women’s Center in ...
by Caelainn Hogan: On The Issues Special Correspondent Belfast, Northern Ireland – On October 18, 2012, the first clinic to ...
by Ann Rossiter On the Issues Special Correspondent – Dublin, Ireland A 17-weeks pregnant woman with severe back pain is ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Prior to the 1960s, women and girls heard a steady banter when it came to sports: ...
by Jennifer Baumgardner Almost 15 years ago, I picked up my ringing phone and the voice on the other end ...
by Meg Heery August 6, 2012 Where to begin This weekend was so jammed with unbelievable moments for women Olympians ...
By Meg Heery August 5, 2012 Last week, the world glimpsed women from Brunei, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as they ...
By Meg Heery August 4, 2012 Thankfully, it looks like Olympics fans are finally embracing big, and embracing it where ...
By Meg Heery August 3, 2012 Thursday, August 2nd, was a huge day for American women in the prime-time Olympic ...
August 2, 2012 If you watched Olympic fencing this week, did you ever wonder what all that screaming was about ...
By Meg Heery August 1, 2012 To borrow a line from Tina Turner, we really do need another hero. Smiling, ...
July 30, 2012 By Meg Heery London 2012 made good on its hype as the Year of the Woman on ...
July 29, 2012 (In daily postings, On the Issues Magazine looks at the 2012 Summer Olympics through a feminist lens.) ...
July 28, 2012 By Meg Heery (Every day of the 2012 London Olympics, look to this space at On the ...
July 27, 2012 by Carolyn Gage The Internet is abuzz with the posthumous outing of astronaut Sally Ride. Everyone seems ...
by The Editors July 26, 2012 This week, Washington is host to the 19th International AIDS Conference. It differed from ...
by Lula Belle July 24, 2012This past spring, something happened where I live, something perhaps unexpected in my adopted hometown ...
You cannot open a paper or magazine (or their digital counterparts) lately and not read a story about an Olympian, ...
by Bill Baird (In yesterday’s installment, pro-choice pioneer Bill Baird reported from the stages of the Right to Life Convention. ...
by Bill Baird July 17, 2012 My wife Joni and I were the only ones protesting in front of the ...
By Meg Heery July 16, 2012 When I was a kid, running was something boys did, usually scrambling through backyards ...
by Carolyn Gage June 28, 2012 As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like ...
By Gwen Deely May 24, 2012 My life aquatic was in full swing before I was born. Evidently I was ...
By Avory Faucette May 21, 2012 As the Summer 2012 Olympics in London gear up, the media will be presenting ...
by Rita Nakashima Brock In the mid-1990s, Asian feminists concerned about the sexual exploitation of children and women and the ...
by Carolyn Gage ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world’s champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to ...
By Lori Adelman In her influential 1938 essay “Three Guineas,” Virginia Woolf portrayed war as an expression of male power ...
By Elizabeth Creely January 19, 2012 On the first day of 2012, an abortion clinic in Florida was firebombed. The ...
Pioneer, visionary, feminist, mentor, revolutionary, woman of the people, principled politician. She had a great heart and extraordinary energy – ...
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler Racism is real and it is ugly but so is sexism. Who has been fined and ...
by Phyllis Chesler In the course of human events, certain actions and special individuals have been known to inspire operas. ...
by Phyllis Chesler The acclaimed Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University celebrated its 25th Anniversary recently with ...
by Phyllis Chesler I do not understand what motivates sensible, even heroic, people to claim what is clearly a defeat ...
by Phyllis Chesler Nearly 25 years ago, I was blessed with the privilege of being part of the first-ever woman’s ...
by Sunsara Taylor On April 12, 2013, eight members of End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women ...
by Phyllis Chesler Every time a news story breaks about a woman imprisoned as a sex slave (for example the Cleveland ...
by Linda Stein I boarded the bus for the 2013 March on Washington with bravery very much on my mind. ...
by Barbara Santee At a time when women’s reproductive freedom is under constant attack, it is critical that younger women ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion ...
by Anna Platt and the Feminist Press Complaints and Disorders (Second Edition) by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre EnglishOrder at Feminist ...
By: Judith Arcana Looking for meaning, I found, first, that roe isa small species of deer inhabiting parts of Europe ...
by Linda Stein I’m caught in an artistic state of transition. I didn’t plan it. It came slowly, over a ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg The action starts at 7 a.m. every Saturday when volunteers start arriving, women and men, some ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Ramona, 32, mother of a four-year-old daughter, is dropped off at the Summit Women’s Center in ...
by Merle Hoffman “Patient #4 in recovery was moved by your work and wants to see you.” When my assistant’s ...
I want to share with all of you the pleasure of being the recipient of the 2015 “Bella” Award given ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Prior to the 1960s, women and girls heard a steady banter when it came to sports: ...
by Phyllis Chesler Cross-posted at Phyllis Chesler’s website. Democratic women rejected the only woman candidate, Christine Quinn, who ran for ...
by The Editors “The Day After” refers, of course, to a real-time event: the presidential election. The dizzying buzz and ...
by Ariel Dougherty “This is what feminism looks like,” shout young women in a contemporary street demonstration in the “She’s Beautiful ...
by Elizabeth Black The erotic novel, 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James, has taken the public, media and the literary world ...
by Susan F. Feiner President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his fourth and final State of the Union Address in 1944. Because ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Deborah Burger, one of three presidents of National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses ...
by Tanya Melich A U.S. Senatorial nominee for the Republican party arguing that a woman who is raped can simply ...
by Samuel Huber and the Feminist Press It’s easy to get tunnel vision during election season. In these months of ...
by The Editors Challenging the personal, political and economic realities of women and pushing toward a more liberatory future is ...
by Jan Goodwin Unless you’ve been living on a desert island for the last couple of years, you’ve probably heard ...