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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

When Revolution in China Elevated Women and Took Prostitution off the Market 

By Mary Lou Greenberg During the recent Beijing Olympics, the Washington Post reported that up to 10 million women in …

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2008 Summer

Of Victims And Vixens–The Feminist Clash Over Prostitution

by Angela Bonavoglia In the wake of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stunning fall from grace in March 2008 for …

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2008 Summer

THEATER ARTS: “RUINED” by Lynn Nottage Links War, Horror and Prostitution, a Preview

by Alexis Greene “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.” Thus speaks the character of the Congolese …

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2008 Summer

Nothing About Us, Without Us

by Ann Jordan Between March and June, scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where …

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2008 Summer

“How you dress shouldn’t be cause for arrest”

By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment …

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2008 Summer

Erotic Laborers Find Outlet in $pread

By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media …

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2008 Summer

Sex Work and Prostitution — Beholders See Different Issues In Past Stories

by Mary Lou Greenberg Women and sex — for pleasure, for money, as an oppression, as a profession — is …

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2008 Summer

On the Frontline of Sex Wars

by Carol Leigh Prostitutes are “the only street fighters we’ve got,” wrote radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in her 1974 book, Amazon …

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2008 Summer

Affinity

By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. …

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2008 Summer

The Poet’s Eye: Summer ’08

Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt and Erin Whitfield Selling Women – By Minnie Bruce PrattOn the cell phone to a …

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2008 Summer

Safeguarding the Rights of Prostituted Women On the Frontlines of a Global Grassroots Movement

By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even …

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2008 Summer

Putting Together Pieces Of Sex Work, Gender Inequality, Deadly Consequences

By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about …

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2008 Summer

Let’s Change the Equation on Sex and Earning

By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a …

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2008 Summer

Stop the Traffick: Stiffening State Laws Helps Trapped Women

by Sonia Ossorio I know a woman from South America who spent her first night in the Big Apple in …

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2008 Summer

Female Orgasm Today: The Hite Report’s Research Then and Now

by Shere Hite “I always wanted to have orgasm during intercourse with him — seems like the impossible dream. I …

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2008 Summer

“It’s Not TV, Its Sexploitation” Protest Against Home Box Office

by Norma Ramos Home Box Office (HBO) advertises the Cathouse DVD this way: If you’ve got a credit card, it’s all there …

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2008 Summer

Does Working Girls Still Work?

by Ariel Dougherty Working Girls is a classic film on sex work, which many professors report using in college courses for …

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2008 Summer

Feminist Divisions Cause Real-World Repercussions

by Juhu Thukral The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, …

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2008 Summer

Naked Truth: Reality and Fantasy Are (Stripper) Poles Apart

by Bernadette Barton Every semester I assign my undergraduate students in my gender and sexuality courses a class project on …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Break the Silence, End the Stigma

by Mary Lou Greenberg “Silence = Death.” The shout of AIDS activists cut like a knife through public ignorance, denial and …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Having Children When You Have HIV – Still a Problem?

by Dr. Ann Boyer When I began working with HIV in the 1980s, women still had a 9 to 30 …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Talking Shop in the Medical Field: The Unfolding of A Strange New Disease

by Mahin Hassibi Medical specialists in different fields complain about insurance companies or the Medicare rates; otherwise “talking shop” only …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Media Missteps + Misogyny = Death for Women

By Mary Lou Greenberg Gender-blind spots in assessing the HIV/AIDS epidemic today are key factors in today’s deadly ignorance about …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

In the U.S., AIDS Spreads Rapid-Fire And Crosses the Gender Divide

by Molly M. Ginty A73-year-old grandmother in Kansas City, Kansas. A 16-year-old Bronx girl living in a foster home. A …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

A Message from the Publisher – Plus ca change

by Merle Hoffman Welcome to the May/June 2008 edition of On The Issues Magazine Online, the first full edition of our new Internet …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Bad Thoughts

By The Editors Over the years, HIV-AIDS has been demonized and stigmatized, especially by religious reactionaries. Family “values” conservatives oppose …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

BOOK REVIEW: AIDS, Women, Africa

Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

The Art Perspective: May ’08

OTI Online provides a new forum for artists to present contemporary art in relation to the topic for that issue. …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

High Rates of HIV and STIs Show the U.S. Is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights

By Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson More than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur before the …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Global Gag Rule Poses Moral Challenge for U.S. HIV/AIDS Funding

By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Time to Rethink Global HIV/AIDS Care

By Nicole Itano After 13 years at the head of the UN’s AIDS organization, Dr. Peter Piot is stepping down. His departure …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

“I Don’t Want to Write the Book” – AIDS and Listening to Women

By Sharon Walton Idistinctly remember the first time that I heard the word “AIDS.”  It was 1985.  I was on …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Once the silence has been broken

By Mehret Mandefro Silence is a universal metaphor that explains marginalized human experience. With HIV, the silence that cloaks sexism, …

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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
2009 Winter

Unprecedented Recognition for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

by Myra Kovary We are living in a new era for persons with disabilities. One sign of this occurred in …

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2009 Spring

Intimate Lines : Teaching Daughters About Lollipop Politics

by Margot Mifflin How did it happen? One day I was a twentysomething heaping scorn on Tipper Gore and her …

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2009 Winter

Midwifery Reborn: Politicians Take Note

By Lesley Cohen Healthcare remains a forefront issue for the American public. With a new president who acknowledges the need …

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2009 Winter

Twisted Treaty Shafts U.S. Women

by Janet Benshoof American women need legal tools to fight patriarchy. Women outside of the U.S. are pushing for and getting …

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2009 Winter

Who The Revolution Left Behind

by Diana Egozcue I get a lot of questions and statements when I explain that I am campaigning for the …

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2009 Winter

Ending the Male Patina in Biology

By Mahin Hassibi For the past century and a half, every new discovery of biology has left intact, and even …

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2009 Winter

Whose Utopia?

by Mahin Hassibi A clear consensus exists among women writers of varied ages, educational backgrounds and life circumstances in the …

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2009 Winter

Revolution Lite

by Merle Hoffman We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. Here’s one response. Oscar …

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2009 Winter

THEATRE ARTS: A Menace to Society

by Alexis Greene Over the years, Bill Baird, the reproductive rights activist, has been threatened, arrested and jailed. He’s been called …

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2009 Winter

A Do-Over for Reproductive Justice

By Gloria Feldt Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host with a following of four million listeners. His …

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2009 Winter

Related Articles: New Year Revolutions Women Need

by MaryLou Greenberg The print editions of On the Issues Magazine (1983-1999) carried many articles, editorials and interviews with vision and hopeful projections …

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2009 Winter

MILK and Recruiting for Rights

by Eleanor J. Bader We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. …

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2009 Winter

The Art Perspective – Winter ’09

On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as …

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2009 Winter

Wanted: A Revolution in Critical Thinking

by Susan Jacoby We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. Here’s …

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2009 Winter

The Poet’s Eye – Winter ’09

Poems by Diane Lockward, Lois Rosen, Marge Piercy and Annie FinchFrom Poetry Co-Editor Judith Arcana The Missing Wife – By …

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2009 Winter

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 …

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2009 Winter

New Waves for Abortion Access in European Decision

by Diana Whitten Women on Waves, an organization that uses a ship to help women in countries where abortion is …

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2009 Winter

An Animal Lawyer Makes a Manifesto

by Barbara J. Gislason The Revolution Occurs Within: Manifesto of an Animal Lawyerby Barbara J. Gislason Admitting to ourselves that we …

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2009 Winter

Health Care ‘Reform’ Is Not Enough

by Susan Yanow At a conference on women’s health care needs in fall 2008, a woman whom Ill identify as Marcia …

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2009 Winter

Our Architecture Ourselves

by Leslie Kanes Weisman Women’s actions through the years demonstrate that they understand how the appropriation of space is a political …

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2009 Winter

Putting Money Where Our Causes Are

by Marion Banzhaf What can feminists expect, or demand, from foundations in the coming years? Foundations lost approximately 30 percent of …

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2008 Fall

Reading The Times

by Merle Hoffman It was interesting to open the Sunday New York Times and see that Nicholas Kristof had discovered …

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2008 Fall

Filming to Shatter the Stigma

by Jennifer Baumgardner I was finishing a writing and film project breaking through the contemporary silences about abortion experiences when …

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2008 Fall

What Is Terror To Women?

by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring unwed career women with tales of a looming …

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2008 Fall

Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women

by Ariel Dougherty A quote from UNICEF fills the screen of the 2002 film, Women, The Forgotten Face of War: “A few …

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2008 Fall

Re-enslaving African American Women

By Loretta Ross I have spoken on many campuses in the wake of the “Genocide Awareness Project,” which displays posters …

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2008 Fall

Protecting the Human Family

By Sally Roesch Wagner What Is Terror To Women? by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring …

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2008 Fall

What is Terror for Women: A Hot Topic In Our Archives

by Mary Lou Greenberg Much of women’s lives has to do with terror – living with it, facing it, and …

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2008 Fall

Stopping The Terror, A Day to End Violence Against Prostitutes

By Annie Sprinkle In 2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having …

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2008 Fall

The Terror of Loving and Losing

by Cathy Albisa When gender and poverty intersect, the failure to protect economic and social rights gives rise to the …

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2008 Fall

Terrorizing the Loved Pets of Women

by Carol J. Adams Several years ago, for one week’s time, I was a circuit rider working against domestic violence. …

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2008 Fall

Justice Still Awaits Terror Victims in Algeria

By Malika Zouba Years of terror at the hands of religious fundamentalists have left bruises beyond remedy for women in …

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2008 Fall

The Water We Swim In, Rescuing Ourselves

By Ellen Snortland Women are terrorism experts. Females all over the world, in developed and developing countries, deal with the …

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