By Lesley Cohen Healthcare remains a forefront issue for the American public. With a new president who acknowledges the need …
by Diana Egozcue I get a lot of questions and statements when I explain that I am campaigning for the …
by Mahin Hassibi A clear consensus exists among women writers of varied ages, educational backgrounds and life circumstances in the …
By Gloria Feldt Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host with a following of four million listeners. His …
by Diana Whitten Women on Waves, an organization that uses a ship to help women in countries where abortion is …
by Tom Kerr In a new book anthology, Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War (Fulcrum Books 2008), the phenomenon of …
by Elisa Slattery Fifty-nine thousand women die every year from pregnancy-related causes in Nigeria, a number second only to that …
by Nada Ali The news of the opening of a hospital-based crisis center in Kabwe, Zambia, to address the complex …
by Merle Hoffman It was interesting to open the Sunday New York Times and see that Nicholas Kristof had discovered …
by Jennifer Baumgardner I was finishing a writing and film project breaking through the contemporary silences about abortion experiences when …
By Loretta Ross I have spoken on many campuses in the wake of the “Genocide Awareness Project,” which displays posters …
By Annie Sprinkle In 2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having …
By Malika Zouba Years of terror at the hands of religious fundamentalists have left bruises beyond remedy for women in …
By Ellen Snortland Women are terrorism experts. Females all over the world, in developed and developing countries, deal with the …
By Merle Hoffman In the midst of my elation, shared with so many others, over the election of Barack Obama …
By Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper As I stood listening to Sarah Palin speak inside a stadium …
By Linda Stein In this edition of On The Issues Magazine on What is Terror To Women, the artwork of Martha Rosler is …
by Rachel West On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …
By Tawanda Mudzonga Zimbabwe has always been ruled by fear and violence. Our political history reveals government again and again …
By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined …
By Mary Lou Greenberg During the recent Beijing Olympics, the Washington Post reported that up to 10 million women in …
By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment …
By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media …
By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. …
By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even …
By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about …
By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a …
By Christine Stark I can’t write nothingBeautiful. I am expected to be that way because I am a girl writer …
by Dr. Ann Boyer When I began working with HIV in the 1980s, women still had a 9 to 30 …
by Mahin Hassibi Medical specialists in different fields complain about insurance companies or the Medicare rates; otherwise “talking shop” only …
By Mary Lou Greenberg Gender-blind spots in assessing the HIV/AIDS epidemic today are key factors in today’s deadly ignorance about …
By Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson More than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur before the …
By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a …
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