by Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies of the United States, the
By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in
The war in Afghanistan is not the first U.S. war in which the ill-treatment of women was used to stoke the fire for war support
by Merle Hoffman All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, the intimacy is profound. In
By Helen Benedict August 3, 2011 In 2006, when I discovered that more women were serving and fighting in the Iraq War than in all
By Autumn Sandeen July 28, 2011 The Veterans Administration released a new directive on transgender veterans in June 2011, “Providing Health Care For Transgender And
by Pam McAllister How guilty I felt almost 30 years ago, when I was just 31 and sisterhood was powerful. Everywhere I went with my
As the U.S. approaches a decade of war, what are feminist writers and artists thinking? On The Issues Magazine Summer 2011 probes peace activism and
by Eleanor J. Bader The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter public high schools across the
by Dr. Terry Neese July 21, 2011 Rwandan women now boast the highest percentage of women in government of any country in the world. In
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