By Chris Lombardi In 1944 Dorothy Hanson was a 20-year old Army lieutenant, a nurse, stationed in a Staten Island …
by Susan Feiner t ten years and counting, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the longest in U.S. history. …
by Laura A. Shamas July 13, 2011 The archetype of Cassandra may be seen as a key symbol for women …
by Lauren Wolfe July 6, 2011 “I’ve never told anyone this before,” the email said. It was one of several …
By Jeanmarie Simpson June 29, 2011 In October 2002, I was scrolling around on the Internet, when an image caught …
By Marjorie Signer June 23, 2011 Jessica Kenyon was one of more than 400,000 women who serve in the Armed …
by Cindy Cooper June 6, 2011 Dr. Theo Colborn is often compared to Rachel Carson, whose famous book, Silent Spring will celebrate …
By Cate Owren May 26, 2011 A major paradigm shift in dealing with climate change has been unfolding in the …
by Catherine Gropper May 19, 2011 I still remember when I heard the first story in April 2010 about the …
by Swapna Majumdar May 12, 2011 In an economically distressed region of India, categorized as “severely food insecure,” and prone …
by Molly M. Ginty Soaring, slithering and swimming, the animals seem undaunted by environmental threats. Overhead, the roseate spoonbills glide, …
by Laura Eldridge With concerns about environmental contamination growing and Americans becoming increasingly aware of its dimensions, we are asking …
by Susan Lehman May 8, 2011 As the mother of grown children, I have basked in the annual glow of …
by Theresa Noll It has been nearly 50 years since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and exposed the harmful effects of DDT, …
by Eleanor J. Bader Three years ago, The International Journal of Chemistry published an article positing Biphenyl-A, or BPA, as a primary …
by Carolyn Raffensperger March 16, 2011 I struggle to understand the spiritual and ecological nature of being a living being, …
by Alexis Greene April 26, 2011 Every morning the trucks roll out of the garage at Community Environmental Center (CEC), …
Barbara Seaman was an author who persistently challenged the “givens” of the medical establishment. In the 1970s, she became a …
by Elizabeth Black I am a copywriter for a sex toys company in England, and, for several years, I’ve written …
In our Spring ’11 edition, THE POET’S EYE features RED 1800s by Denise Bergman, Hurry, it’s coming by Marge Piercy, …
by Carolyn Raffensperger “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.It is …
By Marianne Schnall April 19. 2011 The Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist writer, often talks about the concept …
by Jacqui Patterson The Deepwater Horizon Oil Drilling Disaster of April 20, 2010 (the “BP Oil Spill”) is, as the …
By Lu Bailey April 12, 2011 Several years ago, I attended a workshop about the history of douching. The topic …
by Elayne Clift Her day begins before dawn. She walks over four miles on uneven paths to reach a hand-dug …
by Michelle Chen When a little girl starts growing breasts a year after losing her first baby tooth, her parents …
by Lise Saffran April 5, 2011 To an American college student, there is nothing more invisible than the infrastructure that …
by Karen Ethelsdattar March 29, 2011 With the now-ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, I was shaken all over again. After …
by Karen Charman For the first time in several decades, serious attempts are underway to build new nuclear power reactors. …
by Sarah Flint Erdreich March 22, 2011 The best Hanukkah gift I ever gave my mother was four canvas bags. …
by Linda Stein March 9, 2011 Remember Lorena Bobbitt? I asked my partner that question and her response was a …
By Karen Offen March 4, 2011 In her article Feminism Is as Feminism Does, Merle Hoffman invokes the question that many …
by Heather Cowherd March 1, 2011 In 1995, at the age of ten, I wanted to be like Princess Aurora, …
By Mary Lou Greenberg October 7, 2011 Karen Duda signed petitions, went to rallies and participated in traditional pro-choice activism. …
by Sarah Browning Like many white, middle-class poets coming of age in the early-to-mid-1980s, I was told by my poetry …
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in New York in 1971, women finally …
by Stephanie Gilmore In Cuernavaca, Mexico and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, it was called Marcha de las Putas. In New Delhi, it was Besharmi …
by Laura Whitehorn If you saw the film The Weather Underground, you saw about three minutes of me. The film, through …
By Sarah Byrnes October 20, 2011 Here in the U.S., our economic system is just not working for most Americans. …
By Rosalyn Baxandall October 14, 2011 At last the 99 percent are shaming them: “This is not a Recession; It’s …
by Elizabeth Koke and Glynnis King Activists, their stirring written passion and accounts, are also on our bookshelves. The Feminist Press surveyed …
by Juhu Thukral As social justice advocates, we are often searching for ways to connect and strengthen our movements, and …
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette New ageism is the term I use to describe the current American view of aging-past-youth. Whatever …
by Thaler Pekar I remember my first feminist act. It was Spring of 1974, and I was nine years old. …
by Elizabeth Black When I was in college, I was slut-shamed. On the one hand, I was encouraged to save …
by editors With this past year’s spontaneous eruptions of social action across the world from Occupy Wall Street to SlutWalk …
by Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control …
by Michael angel Johnson Now I would recognize the warning signs, but then, I was only ten. When I cried …
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to …
by Ariel Dougherty September 22, 2011 “The finest minds have always underscored the peacemaking role of women,” Nobel Peace Prize …
By Linda Stein September 15, 2011 Conservative Republicans flexed considerable muscle earlier this year and threw a knockout punch against …
By Keely Swan September 8, 2011 The Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international …
By Madeline Lee Bryer September 1, 2011 The war against domestic violence is heating up. In a decision released publicly …
by Yifat Susskind Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996. One day, …
August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime target in conflict, …
by Shelagh Daley August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime …
by Cora Weiss In my years of peace and gender activism, I developed a stock of one-liners about the role …
By Judith Avory Faucette August 17, 2011 The international legal system treats rape in wartime as a serious crime, especially …
by Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies …
By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and …
The war in Afghanistan is not the first U.S. war in which the ill-treatment of women was used to stoke …
by Merle Hoffman All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, …
By Helen Benedict August 3, 2011 In 2006, when I discovered that more women were serving and fighting in the …
By Autumn Sandeen July 28, 2011 The Veterans Administration released a new directive on transgender veterans in June 2011, “Providing …
by Pam McAllister How guilty I felt almost 30 years ago, when I was just 31 and sisterhood was powerful. …
by Eleanor J. Bader The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter …
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