Paradoxes of Women in Uniform Take Deep Listening
By Chris Lombardi In 1944 Dorothy Hanson was a 20-year old Army lieutenant, a nurse, stationed in a Staten Island ...
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 ...