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Authors of Articles in the Online Edition of On The Issues Magazine (alphabetically by last name).

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2008 Summer

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 …

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2011 Summer

Fighting to Gratify a Sex Instinct? War Attitudes Vary by Gender

By Lori Adelman In her influential 1938 essay “Three Guineas,” Virginia Woolf portrayed war as an expression of male power …

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2012 Winter

Occupying the Air: Banner Wave Truths about Abortion & Rights

By Elizabeth Creely January 19, 2012 On the first day of 2012, an abortion clinic in Florida was firebombed. The …

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2013 Winter

Related Articles, January 2013

by Mary Lou Greenberg The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion …

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2013 Winter

Suggested Reading

by Anna Platt and the Feminist Press Complaints and Disorders (Second Edition) by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre EnglishOrder at Feminist …

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2013 Winter

The Poet’s Eye

(untitled) By Rosellen BrownThree months into Nothing To Do,I asked if he wanted my mail route: Youdrive, I said, I’ll …

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2013 Winter

The Poet’s Eye: Back and Forth

By: Judith Arcana Looking for meaning, I found, first, that roe isa small species of deer inhabiting parts of Europe …

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2013 Winter

The Art Perspective: Transition Art

by Linda Stein I’m caught in an artistic state of transition. I didn’t plan it. It came slowly, over a …

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2013 Winter

It’s Up to Us to Defend Abortion Rights

by Mary Lou Greenberg The action starts at 7 a.m. every Saturday when volunteers start arriving, women and men, some …

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2013 Winter

Forty Years After Roe v Wade, Getting An Abortion Is Still A Major Challenge

by Eleanor J. Bader Ramona, 32, mother of a four-year-old daughter, is dropped off at the Summit Women’s Center in …

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2013 Winter

First Irish Abortion Clinic Opens Amid Controversy, Threats And Confusion

by Caelainn Hogan: On The Issues Special Correspondent Belfast, Northern Ireland – On October 18, 2012, the first clinic to …

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2013 Winter

“She Had a Heartbeat Too” The Tragic Death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish Hospital

by Ann Rossiter On the Issues Special Correspondent – Dublin, Ireland A 17-weeks pregnant woman with severe back pain is …

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2012 Spring

Bodies in Motion: Physical Females Face Different Risks

by Eleanor J. Bader Prior to the 1960s, women and girls heard a steady banter when it came to sports: …

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2012 Fall

Shulamith Firestone and Me

by Jennifer Baumgardner Almost 15 years ago, I picked up my ringing phone and the voice on the other end …

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Culture

This is What Winning Looks Like

by Meg Heery August 6, 2012 Where to begin This weekend was so jammed with unbelievable moments for women Olympians …

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Heery, Meg

Pioneers? Yes. Is It Enough? No.

By Meg Heery August 5, 2012 Last week, the world glimpsed women from Brunei, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as they …

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Heery, Meg

I Like ‘Em Big, I Like ‘Em Proud.

By Meg Heery August 4, 2012 Thankfully, it looks like Olympics fans are finally embracing big, and embracing it where …

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Heery, Meg

They’re Olympic Champions, Not Prey

By Meg Heery August 3, 2012 Thursday, August 2nd, was a huge day for American women in the prime-time Olympic …

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Culture

Olympic Fencing: A Mighty Duel, A Sound Strategy

August 2, 2012 If you watched Olympic fencing this week, did you ever wonder what all that screaming was about …

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Heery, Meg

Meet Your New Olympic Heroes

By Meg Heery August 1, 2012 To borrow a line from Tina Turner, we really do need another hero. Smiling, …

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Heery, Meg

Women and London 2012: Historic? Maddening? Both?

July 30, 2012 By Meg Heery London 2012 made good on its hype as the Year of the Woman on …

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Heery, Meg

London 2012, Day 2: Women Win, Not Unicorns

July 29, 2012 (In daily postings, On the Issues Magazine looks at the 2012 Summer Olympics through a feminist lens.) …

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Heery, Meg

Women in London 2012: Who to Watch

July 28, 2012 By Meg Heery (Every day of the 2012 London Olympics, look to this space at On the …

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Gage, Carolyn

Dr. Sally Ride’s Legacy: The Frontier of Identity

July 27, 2012 by Carolyn Gage The Internet is abuzz with the posthumous outing of astronaut Sally Ride. Everyone seems …

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The Editors

At AIDS Conference, Women Finally in the Spotlight

by The Editors July 26, 2012 This week, Washington is host to the 19th International AIDS Conference. It differed from …

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Belle, Lula

Musings on Minstrelsy: “Ironic” Racism in America

by Lula Belle July 24, 2012This past spring, something happened where I live, something perhaps unexpected in my adopted hometown …

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Arreola, Veronica I

Beyond Olympics: Why I Pledge to Attend Women’s Sports

You cannot open a paper or magazine (or their digital counterparts) lately and not read a story about an Olympian, …

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Baird, Bill

Report From the Right-to-Life Convention, Part 2: Young Women and Men Unite!

by Bill Baird (In yesterday’s installment, pro-choice pioneer Bill Baird reported from the stages of the Right to Life Convention. …

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Baird, Bill

Why Right-to-Lifers Hate Birth Control and Love Mitt Romney, Part 1

by Bill Baird July 17, 2012 My wife Joni and I were the only ones protesting in front of the …

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Heery, Meg

Finding Legs and Body: Running the Marathon

By Meg Heery July 16, 2012 When I was a kid, running was something boys did, usually scrambling through backyards …

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Gage, Carolyn

Me, Babe and Prying Open the Lesbian Closets of Women

by Carolyn Gage June 28, 2012 As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like …

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2012 Spring

Water Born: Swimming Along in Competition and Life

By Gwen Deely May 24, 2012 My life aquatic was in full swing before I was born. Evidently I was …

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2012 Spring

What’s “Level” and Fair for Trans, Intersex and Disabled Athletes?

By Avory Faucette May 21, 2012 As the Summer 2012 Olympics in London gear up, the media will be presenting …

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  • Adams, Carol J
  • Adelman, Lori
  • Albisa, Cathy
  • Alpert, Judy Gumbo
  • Anantnarayan, Lakshmi
  • Anderson, Katrina
  • Arcana, Judith
  • Aronowitz, Nona Willis
  • Arreola, Veronica I
  • Avril, Janine
  • Bader, Eleanor J
  • Bailey, Lu
  • Baird, Bill
  • Bandy, Susan J
  • Banzhaf, Marion
  • Barnhart, Melynda H
  • Barr, Sarah
  • Barry, Kathleen
  • Barton, Bernadette
  • Baumgardner, Jennifer
  • Baxandall, Rosalyn
  • Bayer, Betty M
  • Becker, Barbara
  • Bell, Natalie
  • Belle, Lula
  • Benedict, Helen
  • Benincasa, Sara
  • Benshoof, Janet
  • Bingham, Sallie
  • Bizzaro, Resa Crane
  • Black, Elizabeth
  • Bloom, Marcy
  • Bonavoglia, Angela
  • Bornstein, Kate
  • Boyd, Helen
  • Boyer, Ann
  • Braine, Theresa
  • Brock, Rita Nakashima
  • Browning, Sarah
  • Brudo, Melissa Sontag
  • Bryer, Madeline Lee
  • Bunch, Charlotte
  • Burk, Martha
  • Burnett, Jasmine
  • Burress, David
  • Byrnes, Sarah
  • Cagan, Leslie
  • Carey, Corinne A
  • Carner, Talia
  • Carpentier, Megan
  • Chalker, Rebecca
  • Chamberlain, Pam
  • Channon, Alex
  • Charman, Karen
  • Chatterjee, Ayesha
  • Chen, Michelle
  • Chesler, Phyllis
  • Clift, Elayne
  • Cohen, Lesley
  • Collazo, Abigail
  • Collingwood, Sharon
  • Connie, Rebecca S. A.
  • Cook, Carolyn
  • Cooper, Cindy
  • Copelon, Rhonda
  • Coss, Clare
  • Cowherd, Helen
  • Creely, Elizabeth
  • Daley, Shelagh
  • Davis, Susan Elizabeth
  • Day, Susie
  • DeBoise, Crystal
  • Deeley, Gwen
  • Ditmore, Melissa
  • Dougherty, Ariel
  • Douglas, Susan J
  • Downer, Carol
  • Egozcue, Diana
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara
  • Eldridge, Laura
  • Erdreich, Sarah Flint
  • Espinoza, Mauricio
  • Ethelsdattar, Karen
  • Faludi, Susan
  • Farmer, Ann
  • Faucette, Avory
  • Faucette, Judith Avory
  • Feiner, Susan
  • Feldt, Gloria
  • Fisher, Simon
  • Frieman, Janna
  • Fuentes, Sonia Pressman
  • Gage, Carolyn
  • Garcia, Serena
  • Garza, Irasema
  • Genova, Nancy
  • Gilbert, Helen
  • Gilmore, Stephanie
  • Ginty, Molly M
  • Gislason, Barbara J
  • Goldbard, Arlene
  • Goodman, Justine
  • Goodwin, Jan
  • Grainey, Tim
  • Greenberg, Mary Lou
  • Greene, Alexis
  • Grinstein, Rachel
  • Gropper, Catherine
  • Grossman, Suzanne
  • Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
  • Hackley, Sarah
  • Haffner, Debra W
  • Hammer, Ida
  • Hanisch, Carol
  • Hardin, Marie
  • Hartmann, Betsy
  • Hashe, Janis
  • Hassibi, Mahin
  • Hennawi, Lindsey
  • Hillman, Thea
  • Hilton, Adrien
  • Hirshman, Rhea
  • Hite, Shere
  • Hoffman, Merle
  • Horne, Maame-Mensima
  • Hutchins, Christine E
  • Isard, Risa
  • Ismail, Edna Adan
  • Itano, Nicole
  • Jacoby, Susan
  • Jessop, Carolyn
  • Jiménez, Ileana
  • Johnson, Michael Angel
  • Jones, Chané
  • Jordan, Ann
  • Jordan, Jennifer
  • Joyce, Kathryn
  • Kahn, Barbara
  • Kaplan, Esther
  • Kelly, Margie
  • King, Glynnis
  • Kissling, Frances
  • Koke, Elizabeth
  • Korn, Gabrielle
  • Kovary, Myra
  • Kral, Georgia
  • Kriegel, Gail
  • Lehman, Susan
  • Lehrer, Josie
  • Leigh, Carol
  • Leo, Jana
  • Levin, Tobe
  • Lewis, Dulcey
  • Linden, Andrew D
  • Lombardi, Chris
  • Luck, Fran
  • Ludlow, Jeannie
  • MacGibbon, Heather
  • Macleod, Jennifer S
  • Magee, Jodi
  • Majumdar, Swapna
  • Malik, Tara
  • Mandefro, Mehret
  • Marcotte, Amanda
  • Mason, Carol
  • Maxwell, Zerlina
  • May, Emily
  • Mazur, Laurie
  • McAllister, Pam
  • McAlpin, Lauren Guy
  • McNeil, Maureen
  • Meadows, Karen Jones
  • Melich, Tanya
  • Melling, Louise
  • Miedzian, Myriam
  • Mifflin, Margot
  • Millett, Kate
  • Morison, Sarah
  • Mudzonga, Tawanda
  • Muscio, Inga
  • Nedeau, Jen
  • Neese, Terry
  • Neilson, Victoria
  • Neufeld, Beverly
  • Noll, Theresa
  • Norsigian, Judy
  • Offen, Karen
  • Ossario, Sonio
  • Owren, Cate
  • Palmer, Laura
  • Pandit, Eesha
  • Pappano, Laura
  • Patterson, Jacqui
  • Patterson, Sarah Elspeth
  • Pearson, Cindy
  • Pekar, Thaler
  • Pennick, Faith
  • Pharr, Suzanne
  • Picker, Caroline
  • Pieper, Lindsay Parks
  • Plaid, Andrea
  • Plouffe, Mary E
  • Poh, Angela
  • Pozner, Jennifer L
  • Raffensperger, Carolyn
  • Ramos, Norma
  • Rayles, Manis
  • Rhoad, Meghan
  • Roberts, Jane
  • Rose, Ann
  • Ross, Loretta J
  • Ross, Melissa Nalani
  • Saffran, Lise
  • Salis, K
  • Sanchez, Graciela
  • Sandeen, Autumn
  • Santee, Barbara
  • Saunders, Penelope
  • Savadge, Deborah
  • Schaper, Donna
  • Scher, Abby
  • Schnall, Marianne
  • Schonberger, Jane
  • Schulte, Larry
  • Schvey, Aram A
  • Sen, Rinku
  • Shamas, Laura A
  • Shear, Marie
  • Sherwin, Galen
  • Signer, Marjorie
  • Simpson, Jeanmarie
  • Sir Jesse of Decatur
  • Smith, Andrea
  • Smith, Priscilla
  • Snortland, Ellen
  • Solomon, Jessica T
  • Solomon, Nicole Witte
  • Soohoo, Cynthia
  • Sprinkle, Annie
  • Stark, Christine
  • Staub, Erika M
  • Stein, Linda
  • Stuart, Carol
  • Susskind, Yifat
  • Swan, Keely
  • Sweet, Debra
  • Taft, Charlotte
  • Tanenbaum, Leora
  • Taylor, Sunsara
  • The Editors
  • The Feminist Press
  • Thukral, Juhu
  • Toor, Rachel
  • Turner, Rebecca
  • Uttley, Lois
  • Vig, Joel
  • Vives, Lisa
  • Wagner, Sally Roesch
  • Walton, Sharon
  • Weber, Linda
  • Weisman, Leslie Kanes
  • Weiss, Cora
  • West, Rachel
  • Whitehorn, Laura
  • Whitten, Diana
  • Williams, Jaye Austin
  • Williams, Joan
  • Wolfe, Lauren
  • Yacoobi, Sakena
  • Yager, Alison
  • Yanow, Susan
  • Yee, Jessica
  • Zouba, Malika
  • Zuniga, Lauren
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  • Adams, Carol J
  • Adelman, Lori
  • Albisa, Cathy
  • Alpert, Judy Gumbo
  • Anantnarayan, Lakshmi
  • Anderson, Katrina
  • Arcana, Judith
  • Aronowitz, Nona Willis
  • Arreola, Veronica I
  • Avril, Janine
  • Bader, Eleanor J
  • Bailey, Lu
  • Baird, Bill
  • Bandy, Susan J
  • Banzhaf, Marion
  • Barnhart, Melynda H
  • Barr, Sarah
  • Barry, Kathleen
  • Barton, Bernadette
  • Baumgardner, Jennifer
  • Baxandall, Rosalyn
  • Bayer, Betty M
  • Becker, Barbara
  • Bell, Natalie
  • Belle, Lula
  • Benedict, Helen
  • Benincasa, Sara
  • Benshoof, Janet
  • Bingham, Sallie
  • Bizzaro, Resa Crane
  • Black, Elizabeth
  • Bloom, Marcy
  • Bonavoglia, Angela
  • Bornstein, Kate
  • Boyd, Helen
  • Boyer, Ann
  • Braine, Theresa
  • Brock, Rita Nakashima
  • Browning, Sarah
  • Brudo, Melissa Sontag
  • Bryer, Madeline Lee
  • Bunch, Charlotte
  • Burk, Martha
  • Burnett, Jasmine
  • Burress, David
  • Byrnes, Sarah
  • Cagan, Leslie
  • Carey, Corinne A
  • Carner, Talia
  • Carpentier, Megan
  • Chalker, Rebecca
  • Chamberlain, Pam
  • Channon, Alex
  • Charman, Karen
  • Chatterjee, Ayesha
  • Chen, Michelle
  • Chesler, Phyllis
  • Clift, Elayne
  • Cohen, Lesley
  • Collazo, Abigail
  • Collingwood, Sharon
  • Connie, Rebecca S. A.
  • Cook, Carolyn
  • Cooper, Cindy
  • Copelon, Rhonda
  • Coss, Clare
  • Cowherd, Helen
  • Creely, Elizabeth
  • Daley, Shelagh
  • Davis, Susan Elizabeth
  • Day, Susie
  • DeBoise, Crystal
  • Deeley, Gwen
  • Ditmore, Melissa
  • Dougherty, Ariel
  • Douglas, Susan J
  • Downer, Carol
  • Egozcue, Diana
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara
  • Eldridge, Laura
  • Erdreich, Sarah Flint
  • Espinoza, Mauricio
  • Ethelsdattar, Karen
  • Faludi, Susan
  • Farmer, Ann
  • Faucette, Avory
  • Faucette, Judith Avory
  • Feiner, Susan
  • Feldt, Gloria
  • Fisher, Simon
  • Frieman, Janna
  • Fuentes, Sonia Pressman
  • Gage, Carolyn
  • Garcia, Serena
  • Garza, Irasema
  • Genova, Nancy
  • Gilbert, Helen
  • Gilmore, Stephanie
  • Ginty, Molly M
  • Gislason, Barbara J
  • Goldbard, Arlene
  • Goodman, Justine
  • Goodwin, Jan
  • Grainey, Tim
  • Greenberg, Mary Lou
  • Greene, Alexis
  • Grinstein, Rachel
  • Gropper, Catherine
  • Grossman, Suzanne
  • Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
  • Hackley, Sarah
  • Haffner, Debra W
  • Hammer, Ida
  • Hanisch, Carol
  • Hardin, Marie
  • Hartmann, Betsy
  • Hashe, Janis
  • Hassibi, Mahin
  • Hennawi, Lindsey
  • Hillman, Thea
  • Hilton, Adrien
  • Hirshman, Rhea
  • Hite, Shere
  • Hoffman, Merle
  • Horne, Maame-Mensima
  • Hutchins, Christine E
  • Isard, Risa
  • Ismail, Edna Adan
  • Itano, Nicole
  • Jacoby, Susan
  • Jessop, Carolyn
  • Jiménez, Ileana
  • Johnson, Michael Angel
  • Jones, Chané
  • Jordan, Ann
  • Jordan, Jennifer
  • Joyce, Kathryn
  • Kahn, Barbara
  • Kaplan, Esther
  • Kelly, Margie
  • King, Glynnis
  • Kissling, Frances
  • Koke, Elizabeth
  • Korn, Gabrielle
  • Kovary, Myra
  • Kral, Georgia
  • Kriegel, Gail
  • Lehman, Susan
  • Lehrer, Josie
  • Leigh, Carol
  • Leo, Jana
  • Levin, Tobe
  • Lewis, Dulcey
  • Linden, Andrew D
  • Lombardi, Chris
  • Luck, Fran
  • Ludlow, Jeannie
  • MacGibbon, Heather
  • Macleod, Jennifer S
  • Magee, Jodi
  • Majumdar, Swapna
  • Malik, Tara
  • Mandefro, Mehret
  • Marcotte, Amanda
  • Mason, Carol
  • Maxwell, Zerlina
  • May, Emily
  • Mazur, Laurie
  • McAllister, Pam
  • McAlpin, Lauren Guy
  • McNeil, Maureen
  • Meadows, Karen Jones
  • Melich, Tanya
  • Melling, Louise
  • Miedzian, Myriam
  • Mifflin, Margot
  • Millett, Kate
  • Morison, Sarah
  • Mudzonga, Tawanda
  • Muscio, Inga
  • Nedeau, Jen
  • Neese, Terry
  • Neilson, Victoria
  • Neufeld, Beverly
  • Noll, Theresa
  • Norsigian, Judy
  • Offen, Karen
  • Ossario, Sonio
  • Owren, Cate
  • Palmer, Laura
  • Pandit, Eesha
  • Pappano, Laura
  • Patterson, Jacqui
  • Patterson, Sarah Elspeth
  • Pearson, Cindy
  • Pekar, Thaler
  • Pennick, Faith
  • Pharr, Suzanne
  • Picker, Caroline
  • Pieper, Lindsay Parks
  • Plaid, Andrea
  • Plouffe, Mary E
  • Poh, Angela
  • Pozner, Jennifer L
  • Raffensperger, Carolyn
  • Ramos, Norma
  • Rayles, Manis
  • Rhoad, Meghan
  • Roberts, Jane
  • Rose, Ann
  • Ross, Loretta J
  • Ross, Melissa Nalani
  • Saffran, Lise
  • Salis, K
  • Sanchez, Graciela
  • Sandeen, Autumn
  • Santee, Barbara
  • Saunders, Penelope
  • Savadge, Deborah
  • Schaper, Donna
  • Scher, Abby
  • Schnall, Marianne
  • Schonberger, Jane
  • Schulte, Larry
  • Schvey, Aram A
  • Sen, Rinku
  • Shamas, Laura A
  • Shear, Marie
  • Sherwin, Galen
  • Signer, Marjorie
  • Simpson, Jeanmarie
  • Sir Jesse of Decatur
  • Smith, Andrea
  • Smith, Priscilla
  • Snortland, Ellen
  • Solomon, Jessica T
  • Solomon, Nicole Witte
  • Soohoo, Cynthia
  • Sprinkle, Annie
  • Stark, Christine
  • Staub, Erika M
  • Stein, Linda
  • Stuart, Carol
  • Susskind, Yifat
  • Swan, Keely
  • Sweet, Debra
  • Taft, Charlotte
  • Tanenbaum, Leora
  • Taylor, Sunsara
  • The Editors
  • The Feminist Press
  • Thukral, Juhu
  • Toor, Rachel
  • Turner, Rebecca
  • Uttley, Lois
  • Vig, Joel
  • Vives, Lisa
  • Wagner, Sally Roesch
  • Walton, Sharon
  • Weber, Linda
  • Weisman, Leslie Kanes
  • Weiss, Cora
  • West, Rachel
  • Whitehorn, Laura
  • Whitten, Diana
  • Williams, Jaye Austin
  • Williams, Joan
  • Wolfe, Lauren
  • Yacoobi, Sakena
  • Yager, Alison
  • Yanow, Susan
  • Yee, Jessica
  • Zouba, Malika
  • Zuniga, Lauren
2008 Summer

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 …

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1996 Summer

Why Annie Got Her Gun

by Carolyn Gage ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world’s champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to …

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2011 Summer

Fighting to Gratify a Sex Instinct? War Attitudes Vary by Gender

By Lori Adelman In her influential 1938 essay “Three Guineas,” Virginia Woolf portrayed war as an expression of male power …

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2012 Winter

Occupying the Air: Banner Wave Truths about Abortion & Rights

By Elizabeth Creely January 19, 2012 On the first day of 2012, an abortion clinic in Florida was firebombed. The …

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1998 Summer

Zen and the Art of Motherhood

Pioneer, visionary, feminist, mentor, revolutionary, woman of the people, principled politician. She had a great heart and extraordinary energy – …

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Chesler, Phyllis

Down With NBA Racism! Sexism, ”Who Cares?”

by Dr. Phyllis Chesler Racism is real and it is ugly but so is sexism. Who has been fined and …

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Chesler, Phyllis

Mukthar Mai: The Opera

by Phyllis Chesler In the course of human events, certain actions and special individuals have been known to inspire operas. …

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2013 Winter

Merle Hoffman: Passionate, Generous and Visionary

by Phyllis Chesler The acclaimed Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University celebrated its 25th Anniversary recently with …

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2013 Winter

Sharansky’s Non-Solution For Women Worshippers

by Phyllis Chesler I do not understand what motivates sensible, even heroic, people to claim what is clearly a defeat …

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2013 Winter

WOMEN OF THE WALL: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES

by Phyllis Chesler Nearly 25 years ago, I was blessed with the privilege of being part of the first-ever woman’s …

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2013 Winter

Social Justice Conference Uses Police and Threat of Arrest to Suppress Anti-Porn Views

by Sunsara Taylor On April 12, 2013, eight members of End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women …

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2013 Winter

Is World War Needed to Protect Our Children?

by Phyllis Chesler Every time a news story breaks about a woman imprisoned as a sex slave (for example the Cleveland …

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2013 Winter

Everyday Bravery: Reflections While Going to the 2013 March on Washington

by Linda Stein I boarded the bus for the 2013 March on Washington with bravery very much on my mind. …

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2013 Winter

In the Shadow of the Prayer Tower: Forty Years of Pro-Choice Activism in a Red State

by Barbara Santee At a time when women’s reproductive freedom is under constant attack, it is critical that younger women …

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2013 Winter

Related Articles, January 2013

by Mary Lou Greenberg The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion …

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2013 Winter

Suggested Reading

by Anna Platt and the Feminist Press Complaints and Disorders (Second Edition) by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre EnglishOrder at Feminist …

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2013 Winter

The Poet’s Eye: Back and Forth

By: Judith Arcana Looking for meaning, I found, first, that roe isa small species of deer inhabiting parts of Europe …

Read More
2013 Winter

The Art Perspective: Transition Art

by Linda Stein I’m caught in an artistic state of transition. I didn’t plan it. It came slowly, over a …

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2013 Winter

It’s Up to Us to Defend Abortion Rights

by Mary Lou Greenberg The action starts at 7 a.m. every Saturday when volunteers start arriving, women and men, some …

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2013 Winter

Forty Years After Roe v Wade, Getting An Abortion Is Still A Major Challenge

by Eleanor J. Bader Ramona, 32, mother of a four-year-old daughter, is dropped off at the Summit Women’s Center in …

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2013 Winter

The Love of Strangers

by Merle Hoffman “Patient #4 in recovery was moved by your work and wants to see you.” When my assistant’s …

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2013 Winter

I Remember Her Hand…

I want to share with all of you the pleasure of being the recipient of the 2015 “Bella” Award given …

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2012 Spring

Bodies in Motion: Physical Females Face Different Risks

by Eleanor J. Bader Prior to the 1960s, women and girls heard a steady banter when it came to sports: …

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2012 Winter

Why Women Still Do Not Vote for Women

by Phyllis Chesler Cross-posted at Phyllis Chesler’s website.  Democratic women  rejected the only woman candidate, Christine Quinn, who ran for …

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2012 Fall

The DAY AFTER

by The Editors “The Day After” refers, of course, to a real-time event: the presidential election. The dizzying buzz and …

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2012 Fall

A Crowdfunding Primer: Feminist Media Producers Engage A Community of Backers

by Ariel Dougherty “This is what feminism looks like,” shout young women in a contemporary street demonstration in the “She’s Beautiful …

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2012 Fall

50 Shades Of Grey, Erotica and the Bondage Craze

by Elizabeth Black The erotic novel, 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James, has taken the public, media and the literary world …

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2012 Fall

Living Up to “The New Deal”: Half the Nation Is Still Waiting

by Susan F. Feiner President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his fourth and final State of the Union Address in 1944. Because …

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2012 Fall

Nurses Unionize to Heal the System

by Eleanor J. Bader Deborah Burger, one of three presidents of National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses …

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2012 Fall

Broken Politics: Republicans Assail Suffrage Itself

by Tanya Melich A U.S. Senatorial nominee for the Republican party arguing that a woman who is raped can simply …

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2012 Fall

The Book Corner: Women Define the Agenda, Find the Power

by Samuel Huber and the Feminist Press It’s easy to get tunnel vision during election season. In these months of …

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2012 Fall

RELATED STORIES: The DAY AFTER in On The Issues Magazine

by The Editors Challenging the personal, political and economic realities of women and pushing toward a more liberatory future is …

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2012 Fall

Fracking’s Health Calamities Left to Fester

by Jan Goodwin Unless you’ve been living on a desert island for the last couple of years, you’ve probably heard …

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