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. …
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