End Torture, End Domestic Violence
by Rhonda Copelon When one compares what is done to a woman in an advanced domestic battering cycle and to prisoners ...
by Rhonda Copelon When one compares what is done to a woman in an advanced domestic battering cycle and to prisoners ...
by Diana Whitten Women on Waves, an organization that uses a ship to help women in countries where abortion is ...
by Barbara J. Gislason The Revolution Occurs Within: Manifesto of an Animal Lawyerby Barbara J. Gislason Admitting to ourselves that we ...
by Susan Yanow At a conference on women’s health care needs in fall 2008, a woman whom Ill identify as Marcia ...
by Leslie Kanes Weisman Women’s actions through the years demonstrate that they understand how the appropriation of space is a political ...
by Marion Banzhaf What can feminists expect, or demand, from foundations in the coming years? Foundations lost approximately 30 percent of ...
by Jennifer Baumgardner I was finishing a writing and film project breaking through the contemporary silences about abortion experiences when ...
by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring unwed career women with tales of a looming ...
by Ariel Dougherty A quote from UNICEF fills the screen of the 2002 film, Women, The Forgotten Face of War: “A few ...
By Loretta Ross I have spoken on many campuses in the wake of the “Genocide Awareness Project,” which displays posters ...
By Sally Roesch Wagner What Is Terror To Women? by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg Much of women’s lives has to do with terror – living with it, facing it, and ...
By Annie Sprinkle In 2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having ...
by Cathy Albisa When gender and poverty intersect, the failure to protect economic and social rights gives rise to the ...
by Carol J. Adams Several years ago, for one week’s time, I was a circuit rider working against domestic violence. ...
By Ellen Snortland Women are terrorism experts. Females all over the world, in developed and developing countries, deal with the ...
by Jana Leo From the author:This book is primarily the narration of my individual reflection on an event. It is ...
by Carolyn Gage 2003: A journalist contacted several writers, including me, about the impending invasion of Iraq: How was the war ...
by Mahin Hassibi Long before the French revolutionaries legitimized terror and terrorizing as an instrument of subjugation, men had discovered ...
By Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper As I stood listening to Sarah Palin speak inside a stadium ...
By Linda Stein In this edition of On The Issues Magazine on What is Terror To Women, the artwork of Martha Rosler is ...
by Jan Goodwin It’s impossible to imagine the sheer terror that five Pakistani women went through at the end of ...
by Eleanor J. Bader To the anti-abortion movement, standing outside clinic doors and bellowing at patients and staff that they ...
by Edna Adan Ismail A very distraught old woman came to Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland, appealing to ...
by Melissa Nalani Ross In my work on civil and human rights, especially with immigrant populations, I was contacted recently ...
by Rachel West On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. ...
by Sallie Bingham The statistics about violence against women in the United States have a deadly sameness that can numb ...
By Tawanda Mudzonga Zimbabwe has always been ruled by fear and violence. Our political history reveals government again and again ...
by Merle Hoffman I have been on the psychological defensive since Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican Vice Presidential ...
by Alexis Greene Recently, while walking on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I live, I saw a woman ...
OTI Online provides a forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as well as stills. ...
Poems by Kirsten Rian and Juditha Dowd Reading Poems By Girl Mothers in Sierra Leone – by Kirsten Rian It ...
By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined ...
By Simon Fisher The need for a youth-focused and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS educational platform is urgent. Despite growing infection rates, youth-centered prevention ...
By Carol Stuart The St.James Infirmary is one of the first of its kind — an occupational health clinic for ...
by Victoria Neilson When “Cristina” calls Immigration Equality, where I am the legal director, she’s called the right place for ...
By Yifat Susskind Human rights, feminism, literature and science are all aspects of our common human heritage. Women in the ...
By Stephanie Gilmore Sexual violence is a problem on this campus!” “Your silence will not protect you!” “What do we ...
By Loretta J Ross I believe President Obama should show strong leadership in repealing the Hyde Amendment that prohibits public funding for ...
By Galen Sherwin Laurel Simons, (not her real name) who lives in a small town in Western New York, was ...
By Adrien Hilton Almost 40 years ago, the New York radical feminist group Redstockings pledged in its manifesto: “This time we are ...
By Lu Bailey I am saddened by today’s pop-culture version of feminism, and especially by the number of women who ...
by Charlotte Bunch Violence against women is an issue that has come onto the global agenda from the grassroots level ...
by Merle Hoffman As a person who feels that war should be the strategy of last resort, I still like to ...
From Poetry Co-Editor Clare CossWhat if your mother by Judith ArcanaBirth Control by Judith ArcanaResponsibility by Grace PaleyGentleness Stirred by ...
From the Editors This edition of On The Issues Magazine – Our Genders, Our Rights – discusses a topic that ...
Edited by Linda SteinArt by Judith K. Brodsky On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit ...
by Merle Hoffman In our Spring ’09 edition, On The Issues Magazine writers and artists discuss feminist and progressive values ...
Obstetrician Murdered by Terrorist in Amherst, New Yorkby Judith Arcana This poem, written for Barnett Slepianis here dedicated, in memoriamand ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Our Bodies, Ourselves started with a small group of strangers talking to one another at a ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg “Lines in the Sand” can be either personal or political — or most often, both. Both ...
by Cindy Cooper What revolutions do we need? “We still need the feminist revolution,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority ...
by Jennifer S. Macleod Many established institutions and forces in our country are still fighting desperately against the Equal Rights ...
by Rebecca Chalker The Ancient Greek aphorism, “Know yourself,” was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Whatever this ...
by Donna Schaper I am interested in an overall reversal of course when it comes to preparation for sexual intimacy, ...
By Lauren Guy McAlpin A young woman, we’ll call her Amanda, walked into an agency she saw advertised in her ...
by Pam Chamberlain When I was in college, a group of radical women dressed as witches ran around major U.S. ...
By Irasema Garza In the struggle for gender equality, the legal victories have been historic. Women’s employment and educational rights ...
by Jessica T. Solomon What if the people responsible for protecting our nation, writing our laws or discovering new medicines ...
by Lois Uttley Twelve years ago, Jane Van de Bogart took a stand: Kingston Hospital in rural Ulster County, NY, ...
by Emily May HollabackNYC started in 2005 the way a lot of good revolutions must begin – as conversations with ...
by Gloria Feldt Were you thinking we were done with elections and could take a few minutes to celebrate a ...
By Sarah Hackley Instead of a time of hope, pregnancy too often means death for women in developing countries. In ...
by Loretta J. Ross I’m not a policy wonk. I am very ill suited to talk frequently to legislators to ...
by Donna Schaper Attach fair and just policies to the “emergency” economic stimulus bills and you will find a powerful ...
Submitted to and Rejected by: The Los Angeles Times By Carol Downer International Women’s Day on March 8 has special ...