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Authors of Articles in the Online Edition of On The Issues Magazine (alphabetically by last name).

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2010 Summer

Double Standards in Economic and Political Clout

by Juhu Thukral When a young creative on this past season of the show Mad Men was fired for posting a sexually …

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2010 Summer

Gloria Feldt’s “No Excuses” and Ways to Think About Power

By Theresa Noll As Gloria Feldt points out in her new book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way …

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2010 Summer

Health Inequality: Gates Foundation Bans Abortion

by Marcy Bloom Melinda French Gates, philanthropist, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was greeted with …

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2010 Summer

MDs Tell HHS: High Risk Patients Need Abortion Coverage

By Jodi Magee At Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, we know that abortion is an essential part of comprehensive …

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2010 Summer

Girls Kick: Moving the Media’s World Cup Goal Posts

by Ariel Dougherty The World Cup coverage by ESPN (and ABC) washed over the U.S. this summer like a fever …

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2010 Summer

Girls and Women are Slamming The Poetry Scene

By Lauren Zuniga Every year at the National Poetry Slam poets from all over the country gather to tell their …

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2010 Summer

Women Challenge Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church

by Angela Bonavoglia If ever there were doubt about the relationship between the Catholic Church’s spectacular failure to address the …

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2010 Summer

Female Music Critics Transcend Fan Culture

By Georgia Kral Scan through the pages of a major music magazine, the arts section of The New York Times, Pitchfork.com or …

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2010 Summer

Gender Equality: Devil in the Details

by Cindy Cooper Perhaps one of the biggest impediments to women’s equality in the United States is a pervasive, persistent …

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2010 Summer

“Little Marie”: The Daily Toll of Sexist Language

by Marie Shear I am lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway, alone, waiting to be rolled into the …

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2010 Summer

A Feminist Vision: No Justice-No Equity

by Loretta Ross My mother always asked the question, “Why would I want to be equal to men, when I’ve …

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2010 Summer

Say “I Do”: Constitutional Equality is Forever

by Carolyn A. Cook Looking back now, my parents’ divorce was my first awakening to the double standard for women. …

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2010 Summer

Broadway Has A Long Way to Go, Baby

By Deborah Savadge Remember the Virginia Slims ad campaign from 40 years ago Directed at women, it announced, “You’ve come …

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2010 Summer

Snood by Snood, Tight-Knit Orthodox Piety Loosens Up

by Eleanor J. Bader Inside insular religious communities in the U.S. women are quietly, and sometimes covertly, rolling back limitations …

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2010 Summer

Alright Then, Let Men Compete

by Megan Carpentier This summer, Hanna Rosin warned readers of The Atlantic that the apocalypse was nigh — for boys, at least. …

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2010 Summer

Featured Video: “Car Repair is Women’s Work”

Car mechanic and mother Audra Fordin dons her work gloves to do a grease job on an automobile in her …

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2010 Summer

Defeating Racism and Sexism with the Politics of Authenticity

by Lu Bailey I’ve always been interested in the media’s impact on public policy as well as the media’s role …

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2010 Summer

A Radical Look at The Question of Equality

By Helen Gilbert When I heard from Radical Women members who attended this summer’s U.S. Social Forum that some participants …

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2010 Summer

Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality

by Joan Williams The gender pay gap is standard measure of women’s economic inequality. At the dawn of second-wave feminism, …

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2010 Summer

Formation of Gender Identity in the Church

By Rev. Rebecca Turner Growing up in a small Missouri town Southern Baptist church in the 1960s, I recall very …

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2010 Summer

“Nontraditional” : A Video Makes A Car Job Seem Auto-Matic

The Editors It’s generally called “nontraditional” employment women working in jobs that are mostly held by men. While becoming an …

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2010 Summer

The Poet’s Eye – Summer ’10

Ex-husband by Penelope Scambly Schott I hadn’t understood my breathuntil that long ago Friday night you tried to choke me, …

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2010 Summer

Advancing Rights: 1964 Marks the Beginning of a New Era

By Sonia Pressman Fuentes On August 26, we’ll be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment …

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2010 Spring

Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education

By Rev. Rebecca Turner Since the 1960s, a sex education war has waged in school districts and state legislatures around …

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2010 Summer

Best City for Working Women: In Our Checkbooks

by Beverly Cooper Neufeld A small cadre of women rallied on the steps of New York’s City Hall on April …

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2010 Spring

“Earth to Natalie:” One Teacher and Integration in Nashville

by Natalie Bell By the early 1970s, nearly 20 years after the U.S. Supreme Court had found segregated schools to …

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2010 Summer

Beyond Equality to Liberation

by Mary Lou Greenberg I will always remember the first time I realized that women did not have to live …

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2010 Spring

Tips on Making Career Out of Feminist Work

By Suzanne Grossman I recently had the pleasure of speaking on a career panel to young women enrolled in Feminist …

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2010 Spring

Indie Music Groups Share Sex Positivity

By Georgia Kral Two indie bands with all female members, Mountain Man from Bennington, Vermont and Sleep Over from Austin, …

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2010 Spring

A Blast From The Past Can Secure Abortion Rights

By Carol Downer To secure the availability of abortion, we who are “pro-choice” need to take the lessons from the …

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2010 Spring

Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It

by Jennifer L. Pozner Media literacy is our strongest tool against propaganda and manipulation in today’s media-saturated environment. As someone …

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2010 Spring

Practicing Freedom: An Enduring Model in Anne Frank

by Maureen McNeil Anne Frank wrote that when society fails to protect its people, it’s not just the politicians who …

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2010 Winter

On The Subway With Tillie

by Rhea Hirshman When I was growing up in Brooklyn, a significant rite of passage for my friends and me …

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  • Adams, Carol J
  • Adelman, Lori
  • Albisa, Cathy
  • Alpert, Judy Gumbo
  • Anantnarayan, Lakshmi
  • Anderson, Katrina
  • Arcana, Judith
  • Aronowitz, Nona Willis
  • Arreola, Veronica I
  • Avril, Janine
  • Bader, Eleanor J
  • Bailey, Lu
  • Baird, Bill
  • Bandy, Susan J
  • Banzhaf, Marion
  • Barnhart, Melynda H
  • Barr, Sarah
  • Barry, Kathleen
  • Barton, Bernadette
  • Baumgardner, Jennifer
  • Baxandall, Rosalyn
  • Bayer, Betty M
  • Becker, Barbara
  • Bell, Natalie
  • Belle, Lula
  • Benedict, Helen
  • Benincasa, Sara
  • Benshoof, Janet
  • Bingham, Sallie
  • Bizzaro, Resa Crane
  • Black, Elizabeth
  • Bloom, Marcy
  • Bonavoglia, Angela
  • Bornstein, Kate
  • Boyd, Helen
  • Boyer, Ann
  • Braine, Theresa
  • Brock, Rita Nakashima
  • Browning, Sarah
  • Brudo, Melissa Sontag
  • Bryer, Madeline Lee
  • Bunch, Charlotte
  • Burk, Martha
  • Burnett, Jasmine
  • Burress, David
  • Byrnes, Sarah
  • Cagan, Leslie
  • Carey, Corinne A
  • Carner, Talia
  • Carpentier, Megan
  • Chalker, Rebecca
  • Chamberlain, Pam
  • Channon, Alex
  • Charman, Karen
  • Chatterjee, Ayesha
  • Chen, Michelle
  • Chesler, Phyllis
  • Clift, Elayne
  • Cohen, Lesley
  • Collazo, Abigail
  • Collingwood, Sharon
  • Connie, Rebecca S. A.
  • Cook, Carolyn
  • Cooper, Cindy
  • Copelon, Rhonda
  • Coss, Clare
  • Cowherd, Helen
  • Creely, Elizabeth
  • Daley, Shelagh
  • Davis, Susan Elizabeth
  • Day, Susie
  • DeBoise, Crystal
  • Deeley, Gwen
  • Ditmore, Melissa
  • Dougherty, Ariel
  • Douglas, Susan J
  • Downer, Carol
  • Egozcue, Diana
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara
  • Eldridge, Laura
  • Erdreich, Sarah Flint
  • Espinoza, Mauricio
  • Ethelsdattar, Karen
  • Faludi, Susan
  • Farmer, Ann
  • Faucette, Avory
  • Faucette, Judith Avory
  • Feiner, Susan
  • Feldt, Gloria
  • Fisher, Simon
  • Frieman, Janna
  • Fuentes, Sonia Pressman
  • Gage, Carolyn
  • Garcia, Serena
  • Garza, Irasema
  • Genova, Nancy
  • Gilbert, Helen
  • Gilmore, Stephanie
  • Ginty, Molly M
  • Gislason, Barbara J
  • Goldbard, Arlene
  • Goodman, Justine
  • Goodwin, Jan
  • Grainey, Tim
  • Greenberg, Mary Lou
  • Greene, Alexis
  • Grinstein, Rachel
  • Gropper, Catherine
  • Grossman, Suzanne
  • Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
  • Hackley, Sarah
  • Haffner, Debra W
  • Hammer, Ida
  • Hanisch, Carol
  • Hardin, Marie
  • Hartmann, Betsy
  • Hashe, Janis
  • Hassibi, Mahin
  • Hennawi, Lindsey
  • Hillman, Thea
  • Hilton, Adrien
  • Hirshman, Rhea
  • Hite, Shere
  • Hoffman, Merle
  • Horne, Maame-Mensima
  • Hutchins, Christine E
  • Isard, Risa
  • Ismail, Edna Adan
  • Itano, Nicole
  • Jacoby, Susan
  • Jessop, Carolyn
  • Jiménez, Ileana
  • Johnson, Michael Angel
  • Jones, Chané
  • Jordan, Ann
  • Jordan, Jennifer
  • Joyce, Kathryn
  • Kahn, Barbara
  • Kaplan, Esther
  • Kelly, Margie
  • King, Glynnis
  • Kissling, Frances
  • Koke, Elizabeth
  • Korn, Gabrielle
  • Kovary, Myra
  • Kral, Georgia
  • Kriegel, Gail
  • Lehman, Susan
  • Lehrer, Josie
  • Leigh, Carol
  • Leo, Jana
  • Levin, Tobe
  • Lewis, Dulcey
  • Linden, Andrew D
  • Lombardi, Chris
  • Luck, Fran
  • Ludlow, Jeannie
  • MacGibbon, Heather
  • Macleod, Jennifer S
  • Magee, Jodi
  • Majumdar, Swapna
  • Malik, Tara
  • Mandefro, Mehret
  • Marcotte, Amanda
  • Mason, Carol
  • Maxwell, Zerlina
  • May, Emily
  • Mazur, Laurie
  • McAllister, Pam
  • McAlpin, Lauren Guy
  • McNeil, Maureen
  • Meadows, Karen Jones
  • Melich, Tanya
  • Melling, Louise
  • Miedzian, Myriam
  • Mifflin, Margot
  • Millett, Kate
  • Morison, Sarah
  • Mudzonga, Tawanda
  • Muscio, Inga
  • Nedeau, Jen
  • Neese, Terry
  • Neilson, Victoria
  • Neufeld, Beverly
  • Noll, Theresa
  • Norsigian, Judy
  • Offen, Karen
  • Ossario, Sonio
  • Owren, Cate
  • Palmer, Laura
  • Pandit, Eesha
  • Pappano, Laura
  • Patterson, Jacqui
  • Patterson, Sarah Elspeth
  • Pearson, Cindy
  • Pekar, Thaler
  • Pennick, Faith
  • Pharr, Suzanne
  • Picker, Caroline
  • Pieper, Lindsay Parks
  • Plaid, Andrea
  • Plouffe, Mary E
  • Poh, Angela
  • Pozner, Jennifer L
  • Raffensperger, Carolyn
  • Ramos, Norma
  • Rayles, Manis
  • Rhoad, Meghan
  • Roberts, Jane
  • Rose, Ann
  • Ross, Loretta J
  • Ross, Melissa Nalani
  • Saffran, Lise
  • Salis, K
  • Sanchez, Graciela
  • Sandeen, Autumn
  • Santee, Barbara
  • Saunders, Penelope
  • Savadge, Deborah
  • Schaper, Donna
  • Scher, Abby
  • Schnall, Marianne
  • Schonberger, Jane
  • Schulte, Larry
  • Schvey, Aram A
  • Sen, Rinku
  • Shamas, Laura A
  • Shear, Marie
  • Sherwin, Galen
  • Signer, Marjorie
  • Simpson, Jeanmarie
  • Sir Jesse of Decatur
  • Smith, Andrea
  • Smith, Priscilla
  • Snortland, Ellen
  • Solomon, Jessica T
  • Solomon, Nicole Witte
  • Soohoo, Cynthia
  • Sprinkle, Annie
  • Stark, Christine
  • Staub, Erika M
  • Stein, Linda
  • Stuart, Carol
  • Susskind, Yifat
  • Swan, Keely
  • Sweet, Debra
  • Taft, Charlotte
  • Tanenbaum, Leora
  • Taylor, Sunsara
  • The Editors
  • The Feminist Press
  • Thukral, Juhu
  • Toor, Rachel
  • Turner, Rebecca
  • Uttley, Lois
  • Vig, Joel
  • Vives, Lisa
  • Wagner, Sally Roesch
  • Walton, Sharon
  • Weber, Linda
  • Weisman, Leslie Kanes
  • Weiss, Cora
  • West, Rachel
  • Whitehorn, Laura
  • Whitten, Diana
  • Williams, Jaye Austin
  • Williams, Joan
  • Wolfe, Lauren
  • Yacoobi, Sakena
  • Yager, Alison
  • Yanow, Susan
  • Yee, Jessica
  • Zouba, Malika
  • Zuniga, Lauren
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  • Adams, Carol J
  • Adelman, Lori
  • Albisa, Cathy
  • Alpert, Judy Gumbo
  • Anantnarayan, Lakshmi
  • Anderson, Katrina
  • Arcana, Judith
  • Aronowitz, Nona Willis
  • Arreola, Veronica I
  • Avril, Janine
  • Bader, Eleanor J
  • Bailey, Lu
  • Baird, Bill
  • Bandy, Susan J
  • Banzhaf, Marion
  • Barnhart, Melynda H
  • Barr, Sarah
  • Barry, Kathleen
  • Barton, Bernadette
  • Baumgardner, Jennifer
  • Baxandall, Rosalyn
  • Bayer, Betty M
  • Becker, Barbara
  • Bell, Natalie
  • Belle, Lula
  • Benedict, Helen
  • Benincasa, Sara
  • Benshoof, Janet
  • Bingham, Sallie
  • Bizzaro, Resa Crane
  • Black, Elizabeth
  • Bloom, Marcy
  • Bonavoglia, Angela
  • Bornstein, Kate
  • Boyd, Helen
  • Boyer, Ann
  • Braine, Theresa
  • Brock, Rita Nakashima
  • Browning, Sarah
  • Brudo, Melissa Sontag
  • Bryer, Madeline Lee
  • Bunch, Charlotte
  • Burk, Martha
  • Burnett, Jasmine
  • Burress, David
  • Byrnes, Sarah
  • Cagan, Leslie
  • Carey, Corinne A
  • Carner, Talia
  • Carpentier, Megan
  • Chalker, Rebecca
  • Chamberlain, Pam
  • Channon, Alex
  • Charman, Karen
  • Chatterjee, Ayesha
  • Chen, Michelle
  • Chesler, Phyllis
  • Clift, Elayne
  • Cohen, Lesley
  • Collazo, Abigail
  • Collingwood, Sharon
  • Connie, Rebecca S. A.
  • Cook, Carolyn
  • Cooper, Cindy
  • Copelon, Rhonda
  • Coss, Clare
  • Cowherd, Helen
  • Creely, Elizabeth
  • Daley, Shelagh
  • Davis, Susan Elizabeth
  • Day, Susie
  • DeBoise, Crystal
  • Deeley, Gwen
  • Ditmore, Melissa
  • Dougherty, Ariel
  • Douglas, Susan J
  • Downer, Carol
  • Egozcue, Diana
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara
  • Eldridge, Laura
  • Erdreich, Sarah Flint
  • Espinoza, Mauricio
  • Ethelsdattar, Karen
  • Faludi, Susan
  • Farmer, Ann
  • Faucette, Avory
  • Faucette, Judith Avory
  • Feiner, Susan
  • Feldt, Gloria
  • Fisher, Simon
  • Frieman, Janna
  • Fuentes, Sonia Pressman
  • Gage, Carolyn
  • Garcia, Serena
  • Garza, Irasema
  • Genova, Nancy
  • Gilbert, Helen
  • Gilmore, Stephanie
  • Ginty, Molly M
  • Gislason, Barbara J
  • Goldbard, Arlene
  • Goodman, Justine
  • Goodwin, Jan
  • Grainey, Tim
  • Greenberg, Mary Lou
  • Greene, Alexis
  • Grinstein, Rachel
  • Gropper, Catherine
  • Grossman, Suzanne
  • Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
  • Hackley, Sarah
  • Haffner, Debra W
  • Hammer, Ida
  • Hanisch, Carol
  • Hardin, Marie
  • Hartmann, Betsy
  • Hashe, Janis
  • Hassibi, Mahin
  • Hennawi, Lindsey
  • Hillman, Thea
  • Hilton, Adrien
  • Hirshman, Rhea
  • Hite, Shere
  • Hoffman, Merle
  • Horne, Maame-Mensima
  • Hutchins, Christine E
  • Isard, Risa
  • Ismail, Edna Adan
  • Itano, Nicole
  • Jacoby, Susan
  • Jessop, Carolyn
  • Jiménez, Ileana
  • Johnson, Michael Angel
  • Jones, Chané
  • Jordan, Ann
  • Jordan, Jennifer
  • Joyce, Kathryn
  • Kahn, Barbara
  • Kaplan, Esther
  • Kelly, Margie
  • King, Glynnis
  • Kissling, Frances
  • Koke, Elizabeth
  • Korn, Gabrielle
  • Kovary, Myra
  • Kral, Georgia
  • Kriegel, Gail
  • Lehman, Susan
  • Lehrer, Josie
  • Leigh, Carol
  • Leo, Jana
  • Levin, Tobe
  • Lewis, Dulcey
  • Linden, Andrew D
  • Lombardi, Chris
  • Luck, Fran
  • Ludlow, Jeannie
  • MacGibbon, Heather
  • Macleod, Jennifer S
  • Magee, Jodi
  • Majumdar, Swapna
  • Malik, Tara
  • Mandefro, Mehret
  • Marcotte, Amanda
  • Mason, Carol
  • Maxwell, Zerlina
  • May, Emily
  • Mazur, Laurie
  • McAllister, Pam
  • McAlpin, Lauren Guy
  • McNeil, Maureen
  • Meadows, Karen Jones
  • Melich, Tanya
  • Melling, Louise
  • Miedzian, Myriam
  • Mifflin, Margot
  • Millett, Kate
  • Morison, Sarah
  • Mudzonga, Tawanda
  • Muscio, Inga
  • Nedeau, Jen
  • Neese, Terry
  • Neilson, Victoria
  • Neufeld, Beverly
  • Noll, Theresa
  • Norsigian, Judy
  • Offen, Karen
  • Ossario, Sonio
  • Owren, Cate
  • Palmer, Laura
  • Pandit, Eesha
  • Pappano, Laura
  • Patterson, Jacqui
  • Patterson, Sarah Elspeth
  • Pearson, Cindy
  • Pekar, Thaler
  • Pennick, Faith
  • Pharr, Suzanne
  • Picker, Caroline
  • Pieper, Lindsay Parks
  • Plaid, Andrea
  • Plouffe, Mary E
  • Poh, Angela
  • Pozner, Jennifer L
  • Raffensperger, Carolyn
  • Ramos, Norma
  • Rayles, Manis
  • Rhoad, Meghan
  • Roberts, Jane
  • Rose, Ann
  • Ross, Loretta J
  • Ross, Melissa Nalani
  • Saffran, Lise
  • Salis, K
  • Sanchez, Graciela
  • Sandeen, Autumn
  • Santee, Barbara
  • Saunders, Penelope
  • Savadge, Deborah
  • Schaper, Donna
  • Scher, Abby
  • Schnall, Marianne
  • Schonberger, Jane
  • Schulte, Larry
  • Schvey, Aram A
  • Sen, Rinku
  • Shamas, Laura A
  • Shear, Marie
  • Sherwin, Galen
  • Signer, Marjorie
  • Simpson, Jeanmarie
  • Sir Jesse of Decatur
  • Smith, Andrea
  • Smith, Priscilla
  • Snortland, Ellen
  • Solomon, Jessica T
  • Solomon, Nicole Witte
  • Soohoo, Cynthia
  • Sprinkle, Annie
  • Stark, Christine
  • Staub, Erika M
  • Stein, Linda
  • Stuart, Carol
  • Susskind, Yifat
  • Swan, Keely
  • Sweet, Debra
  • Taft, Charlotte
  • Tanenbaum, Leora
  • Taylor, Sunsara
  • The Editors
  • The Feminist Press
  • Thukral, Juhu
  • Toor, Rachel
  • Turner, Rebecca
  • Uttley, Lois
  • Vig, Joel
  • Vives, Lisa
  • Wagner, Sally Roesch
  • Walton, Sharon
  • Weber, Linda
  • Weisman, Leslie Kanes
  • Weiss, Cora
  • West, Rachel
  • Whitehorn, Laura
  • Whitten, Diana
  • Williams, Jaye Austin
  • Williams, Joan
  • Wolfe, Lauren
  • Yacoobi, Sakena
  • Yager, Alison
  • Yanow, Susan
  • Yee, Jessica
  • Zouba, Malika
  • Zuniga, Lauren
2011 Winter

Female Violence in Search of Justice

by Linda Stein March 9, 2011 Remember Lorena Bobbitt? I asked my partner that question and her response was a …

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2011 Winter

Feminist, Feminisme, Feministe? Anti-Patriarchy is Key

By Karen Offen March 4, 2011 In her article Feminism Is as Feminism Does, Merle Hoffman invokes the question that many …

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2011 Winter

Films that Inform Our Lives: Maybe Next Year?

by Heather Cowherd March 1, 2011 In 1995, at the age of ten, I wanted to be like Princess Aurora, …

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Press Release

On The Issues Magazine Launches: ‘The Ecology of Women’

by The Editors The Spring 2011 edition of On The Issues Magazine “The Ecology of Women”  examines how environmental health affects …

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2011 Winter

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 …

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2011 Winter

Women’s Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward

by Carol Hanisch Feminism has always been a problematic term in the struggle for women’s liberation, and now with such …

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2011 Winter

Controlling Women: Reasons to Worry About the Scott Sisters

by Caroline Picker February 17, 2011 What would you trade for your freedom? Why should you care about the Scott …

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2011 Winter

Not-so-New Right Wing Women

by Abby Scher The doctor’s wife was an educated woman, she’d raised two children, and been active in her community …

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2011 Winter

Republicans Aim to ‘Divide and Conquer’

by Lu Bailey There’s something very peculiar about what has happened in American politics during the last election cycle. The …

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2011 Winter

Icons, Superheroes and Fantasies a Feminist Can Love?

by Linda Stein I hate violent movies. I was never drawn to the shoot ‘em up genre that attracts so …

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2011 Winter

The Rise of Enlightened Sexism

by Susan J. Douglas Today, we once again have what Betty Friedan famously called “a problem with no name.” Millions …

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2011 Winter

Disappearing the word “rape”

by Stephanie Gilmore The Super Bowl is over, and although the Pittsburgh Steelers lost a record-setting seventh victory, star quarterback …

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2011 Winter

Feminism Is As Feminism Does

by Merle Hoffman All my life there was a kind of disconnect between my internal and external realities. “Funny,” people …

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2011 Winter

‘Abortion’ as Right’s Multipurpose Scare Word

by Amanda Marcotte Abortion: most of us tend to think the word has a fixed meaning, which is: terminating a …

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2011 Winter

Of Hallie Flanagan and Women Who Won’t Be Silent

by Alexis Greene The American theater director and educator Hallie Flanagan Davis, hero of Ruth Wolff’s play Hallie, grew to womanhood during …

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Press Release

Anti-Choice Tactics Attempt to Codify The Hyde Amendment Into Permanent Law

by The Editors Today, House Republicans pulled a frightening revision from HR3, or “The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” …

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2011 Winter

‘Feminists for Life’: A built-in contradiction?

by Eleanor J. Bader Sarah Palin, on the vice-presidential campaign trail in 2008, raised the profile of a previously obscure …

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2011 Winter

Feminists Lose Ground Working With Social Conservatives On Trafficking

by Melissa Ditmore Many people are surprised to learn that some contemporary feminists work with Right-wing Christians on the issue …

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2011 Winter

An On The Issues Featured Video: “To the Oklahoma Lawmakers: poem”

by Lauren Zuniga Visit On The Issue Magazine’s channel on YouTube for our original and favorite videos.

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2011 Winter

Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary: A Time for Celebration and Commitment

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 …

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2011 Winter

Dangerous Con: How the Right Wing Attracts Women

by Helen Gilbert The emergence of Sarah Palin and other perky-but-tough “mama grizzlies” is well-calculated. The Right wing is searching …

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2011 Winter

The Sexual Politics of Meat Revisited

by Theresa Noll Carol Adams’s The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory is a pivotal feminist text in which Adams …

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2011 Winter

Art Exhibit: Judy Chicago

On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as …

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2011 Winter

Lady Gaga: Celebrity Feminist?

by Nona Willis Aronowitz This past summer, I found myself in Chicago’s Grant Park amid a sea of zealots. They …

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2011 Winter

Love and Creative Genius: A Feminist’s Most Potent Weapons

by Inga Muscio Feminism is an expression of oppressed people, but it has, like everything else in America, been commodified. …

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2011 Winter

The Conning of the Feminists

From the Editors The Conning of the Feminists — this edition of On the Issues Magazine — looks at feminist icons, feminist values …

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2011 Winter

Reality TV (Re)Rewrites Gender Roles

by Jennifer L. Pozner Step right up, folks, it’s time for everyone’s favorite guessing game, Regress-o-Rama. Who said the following? …

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2011 Winter

Stop Murder and Violence Against Sex Workers

by Melissa Sontag Broudo and Rachel Grinstein Within the last month, police discovered four bodies along the Long Island Shore …

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2011 Winter

Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women

by Loretta J. Ross Sixty-five billboards were quickly erected in predominantly African American neighborhoods in Atlanta on February 5, 2010. …

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2010 Winter

“No Easy Decision”: MTV Takes on Abortion

By Sarah Flint Erdreich Abortion has long been the third rail of American pop culture. Maude may have chosen to …

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2010 Winter

Feminist Hyman Rights vs. the Conning of Patriotism

By Kathleen Barry Although more women are joining the military than ever before and some are seeing combat, women’s primary …

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2010 Winter

RELATED STORIES From Our Files

In previous issues, both online and in print,On The Issues Magazine has interviewed and written about many women whose passionate …

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2010 Winter

Judging Our Future: Supreme Women Move Up

By Sonia Fuentes In my lifetime, this country has seen dramatic changes with regard to women on the U.S. Supreme …

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