Women On High: The Price of Passion at the Roof of the World
by Jennifer Jordan I came to this rather obscure subject of “women high altitude climbers” as any self-respecting journalist should ...
by Jennifer Jordan I came to this rather obscure subject of “women high altitude climbers” as any self-respecting journalist should ...
by Zerlina Maxwell “I’m going to make it to the Olympics!” I shrieked as a knot formed in my throat ...
By Peggy Miller Francke May 10, 2012 The multi-talented sports champion Eleonora Sears died four years before Title IX became ...
by Marie Hardin When Title IX became law in 1972, it started a chain of events that have ultimately changed ...
by Martha Burk Title IX has been a part of our body of law for 40 years, and it has ...
By Cindy Cooper May 5, 2012 In 1892, suffragist and temperance leader Frances Elizabeth Willard had a truly wild idea: ...
by Gabrielle Korn I have a question. Who decided that sports – competitive, complicated, labor-intensive, rules-driven – are fun? I don’t ...
by Laura Pappano As a blogger and reader of women’s sports blogs, I’ve learned that one subject reliably spurs sharp ...
by Molly M. Ginty Gathered in a circle on a rainbow of yoga mats, tucking braids, curls and dreadlocks into ...
Featuring the poetry of Kathleen Aguero, Judith Barrington, Carolyn Martin, and Penelope Scambly Schott; Curated by Poetry Co-editor Judith Arcana. ...
by Louise Melling April 15, 2012 For nearly two years, legislatures across the country have proposed and passed an unprecedented ...
by Ariel Dougherty Forty years ago, at the same time that Title IX was passed by the federal government, Sheila Paige and ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg April 10, 2012 When two Barnard college students arrived to escort patients into a New York ...
by Lu Bailey This year, my 10 year-old told me that she wanted to try out for the cheerleading squad ...
by Rachel Toor Because I never played sports, because I went with my feminist mother to 1970s rallies and women’s ...
By Charlotte Taft April 3, 2012 As I write this, I’m not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a ...
by Chané Jones and The Feminist Press An exploration about sports soon reveals that it is about much more than ...
by Lindsay Parks Pieper Renée Clarke towered over all of her competitors in the 1976 La Jolla tennis tournament. Aided ...
By Ann Rose March 28, 2012 Since 1976 when the Hyde Amendment passed, I’ve been hopelessly annoyed with the pro-choice ...
by Risa Isard It’s a Sunday night in June in 2007 and my best friends and I lie on the ...
by Alex Channon Sex segregation in sports is so widely accepted that it is hardly ever discussed. But this outdated ...
by Jane Schonberger Growing up in the ’70s, I loved watching the Olympics. As an athlete myself, I sat mesmerized ...
by Mauricio Espinoza Jordan leaped to grab that ball as if nothing else in the world mattered, the way good ...
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to ...
By Janna Frieman March 22, 2012 In January, a woman prematurely gave birth to twins in her cell within 24 ...
by Tim Grainey The United States women’s national soccer team played to a television audience of 40 million in 1999, ...
by Christine Stark I could say soccer saved me, but it wouldn’t be true. I saved myself, as a girl, ...
by The Editors The convergence of two events this summer brings excitement and attention to women in sports — the ...
by Susan J. Bandy As a former athlete and a graduate student in Sports Studies, I embraced feminism in the ...
by Andrew D. Linden To watch his daughter, Angela, play quarterback in 2011, former National League Football quarterback Mark Rypien, ...
By David Burress March 14, 2012 The right-wing anti-abortion movement’s every argument against abortion has a coherent pro-violent subtext. There ...
by Laura A. Shamas The physically talented woman-competitor is an amazing feature of many timeless tales. She runs faster than ...
By Sarah Morison March 8, 2012 In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unprecedented visit to the ...
by Sunsara Taylor From November 26th, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO), the last abortion clinic left in Mississippi, will ...
by Amanda Marcotte There can be no doubt now: this is a war on sex. More than most campaign seasons ...
by Mary E. Plouffe Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs tells us that basic needs (food, shelter, safety) must be satisfied before higher ...
by Juhu Thukral What will the next president mean for the way we live and pursue safety in our daily ...
by The Editors OCT 15, 2012 We’ve just learned of efforts by the Hoshyar Foundation* to build a school for girls in Pakistan, ...
by The Editors Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard made international headlines (and garnered much admiration) last week when video of ...
by Merle Hoffman, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief OCT 12, 2012 Congressman Joe Walsh says abortions never save women‘s lives. He’s wrong. Here’s ...
by Merle Hoffman, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief After debating every major “right-to-life” leader in this country- including Jerry Falwell – I ...
by Jennifer L. Pozner Two months. That’s how long it took for three high school girls to reverse a two-decade ...
by Editors NEW YORK (September 12, 2012) – Between political convention battles, the war on women, and a pivotal presidential ...
by Chris Lombardi SUSAN BROWNMILLER, author of Against of Our Will: Men, Women and Rape Quote: “She was the first radical ...
by Jennifer Baumgardner Almost 15 years ago, I picked up my ringing phone and the voice on the other end ...
by Merle Hoffman When the documentary “Saving Face” was awarded an Oscar this year, it was the first time many ...
by Sunsara Taylor and David Gunn, Jr. Across the country, people are waking up to the state of emergency facing ...
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 The Editors July 26, 2012 This week, Washington is host to the 19th International AIDS Conference. It differed from ...
by Merle Hoffman July 25, 2012 Comparing fetuses to Jews in the gas chambers and or black American slaves is ...
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 Carolyn Gage June 28, 2012 As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg On Tuesday, July 23rd, rallies on both coasts will kick off the month-long Abortion Rights Freedom ...
by Chris Lombardi This weekend, Egyptian voters went to the polls despite what many were calling a ‘constitutional coup.’ On ...
by Chris Lombardi General Gale Pollock, former Army Surgeon General, was blunt: “When a servicewoman becomes pregnant due to an ...
by Yifat Susskind It’s been two years since the passing of Rhonda Copelon, a women’s human rights advocate and lawyer. ...
by Elayne Clift Since the days of the goddess Athena, armed and shouting war cries, there have been female warriors. ...
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 Jennifer Jordan I came to this rather obscure subject of “women high altitude climbers” as any self-respecting journalist should ...
by Zerlina Maxwell “I’m going to make it to the Olympics!” I shrieked as a knot formed in my throat ...
by Marie Hardin When Title IX became law in 1972, it started a chain of events that have ultimately changed ...