Academic Feminisms: Gaining or Losing Ground?
by Resa Crane Bizzaro February 23, 2011 When I first thought about writing this essay, I was a little afraid ...
by Resa Crane Bizzaro February 23, 2011 When I first thought about writing this essay, I was a little afraid ...
by Carol Hanisch Feminism has always been a problematic term in the struggle for women’s liberation, and now with such ...
by Caroline Picker February 17, 2011 What would you trade for your freedom? Why should you care about the Scott ...
by Abby Scher The doctor’s wife was an educated woman, she’d raised two children, and been active in her community ...
by Lu Bailey There’s something very peculiar about what has happened in American politics during the last election cycle. The ...
by Susan J. Douglas Today, we once again have what Betty Friedan famously called “a problem with no name.” Millions ...
by Stephanie Gilmore The Super Bowl is over, and although the Pittsburgh Steelers lost a record-setting seventh victory, star quarterback ...
by Merle Hoffman All my life there was a kind of disconnect between my internal and external realities. “Funny,” people ...
by Amanda Marcotte Abortion: most of us tend to think the word has a fixed meaning, which is: terminating a ...
by Alexis Greene The American theater director and educator Hallie Flanagan Davis, hero of Ruth Wolff’s play Hallie, grew to womanhood during ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Sarah Palin, on the vice-presidential campaign trail in 2008, raised the profile of a previously obscure ...
by Melissa Ditmore Many people are surprised to learn that some contemporary feminists work with Right-wing Christians on the issue ...
by Merle Hoffman As we celebrate the 38th anniversary on Jan 22nd of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, this ...
by Helen Gilbert The emergence of Sarah Palin and other perky-but-tough “mama grizzlies” is well-calculated. The Right wing is searching ...
by Theresa Noll Carol Adams’s The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory is a pivotal feminist text in which Adams ...
On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as ...
by Nona Willis Aronowitz This past summer, I found myself in Chicago’s Grant Park amid a sea of zealots. They ...
by Inga Muscio Feminism is an expression of oppressed people, but it has, like everything else in America, been commodified. ...
by Jennifer L. Pozner Step right up, folks, it’s time for everyone’s favorite guessing game, Regress-o-Rama. Who said the following? ...
by Melissa Sontag Broudo and Rachel Grinstein Within the last month, police discovered four bodies along the Long Island Shore ...
by Loretta J. Ross Sixty-five billboards were quickly erected in predominantly African American neighborhoods in Atlanta on February 5, 2010. ...
By Sarah Flint Erdreich Abortion has long been the third rail of American pop culture. Maude may have chosen to ...
By Kathleen Barry Although more women are joining the military than ever before and some are seeing combat, women’s primary ...
In previous issues, both online and in print,On The Issues Magazine has interviewed and written about many women whose passionate ...
By Sonia Fuentes In my lifetime, this country has seen dramatic changes with regard to women on the U.S. Supreme ...
By Cindy Cooper The biggest feminist con ever might be the failure to inscribe equal rights into the United States ...
By Cindy Cooper The count is four to zero. Four times voters have been asked to consider anti-abortion ballot measures ...
by Karen Jones Meadows As a child I learned of Harriet Tubman, icon of the anti-enslavement movement, and the most ...
By Ariel Dougherty Fitting for these times Is The Social Network a movie with social good In the opening sequence ...
By Ann Farmer WATCH THE VIDEO: Yvonne Rainer: Back to the Future A founding member of the avant-garde Judson Dance ...
by Tobe Levin “During training, I would say out loud what others were merely thinking. For example, the day that ...
by Laura Eldridge While feminists in the 1960s and ’70s dreamed that a “male Pill” was close to happening, today ...
by Kathleen Barry I had not planned to write a book on masculinity and war. But following the Israeli invasion ...
by Dr. Terry Neese July 21, 2011 Rwandan women now boast the highest percentage of women in government of any ...
by Kathleen Barry Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich will be in military court this summer of 2011 for a massacre that ...
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 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. ...