Complete Table of Contents

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  • Race
  • Our Bodies
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  • Love
  • International Reports
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Feminism
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Activism and Politics in the US
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  • All
  • Violence
  • Race
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  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Feminism
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Activism and Politics in the US
  • Abortion
2009 Winter

An Animal Lawyer Makes a Manifesto

by Barbara J. Gislason The Revolution Occurs Within: Manifesto of an Animal Lawyerby Barbara J. Gislason Admitting to ourselves that we …

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2009 Winter

Health Care ‘Reform’ Is Not Enough

by Susan Yanow At a conference on women’s health care needs in fall 2008, a woman whom Ill identify as Marcia …

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2009 Winter

Our Architecture Ourselves

by Leslie Kanes Weisman Women’s actions through the years demonstrate that they understand how the appropriation of space is a political …

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2009 Winter

Putting Money Where Our Causes Are

by Marion Banzhaf What can feminists expect, or demand, from foundations in the coming years? Foundations lost approximately 30 percent of …

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2008 Fall

Filming to Shatter the Stigma

by Jennifer Baumgardner I was finishing a writing and film project breaking through the contemporary silences about abortion experiences when …

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2008 Fall

What Is Terror To Women?

by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring unwed career women with tales of a looming …

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2008 Fall

Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women

by Ariel Dougherty A quote from UNICEF fills the screen of the 2002 film, Women, The Forgotten Face of War: “A few …

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2008 Fall

Re-enslaving African American Women

By Loretta Ross I have spoken on many campuses in the wake of the “Genocide Awareness Project,” which displays posters …

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2008 Fall

Protecting the Human Family

By Sally Roesch Wagner What Is Terror To Women? by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring …

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2008 Fall

What is Terror for Women: A Hot Topic In Our Archives

by Mary Lou Greenberg Much of women’s lives has to do with terror – living with it, facing it, and …

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2008 Fall

Stopping The Terror, A Day to End Violence Against Prostitutes

By Annie Sprinkle In 2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having …

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2008 Fall

The Terror of Loving and Losing

by Cathy Albisa When gender and poverty intersect, the failure to protect economic and social rights gives rise to the …

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2008 Fall

Terrorizing the Loved Pets of Women

by Carol J. Adams Several years ago, for one week’s time, I was a circuit rider working against domestic violence. …

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2008 Fall

Justice Still Awaits Terror Victims in Algeria

By Malika Zouba Years of terror at the hands of religious fundamentalists have left bruises beyond remedy for women in …

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2008 Fall

The Water We Swim In, Rescuing Ourselves

By Ellen Snortland Women are terrorism experts. Females all over the world, in developed and developing countries, deal with the …

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2008 Fall

The Dangerous Complacency of Victory

By Merle Hoffman In the midst of my elation, shared with so many others, over the election of Barack Obama …

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2008 Fall

RAPE NEW YORK-A Narrative of a Rape and an Examination of a Culture of Predation Excerpts from a book-in-progress

by Jana Leo From the author:This book is primarily the narration of my individual reflection on an event. It is …

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2008 Fall

The War I Know: Sidelined, A to Z

by Carolyn Gage 2003: A journalist contacted several writers, including me, about the impending invasion of Iraq: How was the war …

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2008 Fall

Terror For Women Exists Throughout History, Across Cultures

by Mahin Hassibi Long before the French revolutionaries legitimized terror and terrorizing as an instrument of subjugation, men had discovered …

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2008 Fall

The Terror and Error of Sarah Palin

By Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper As I stood listening to Sarah Palin speak inside a stadium …

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2008 Fall

Art and Politics, Interpretation by Women

By Linda Stein In this edition of On The Issues Magazine on What is Terror To Women, the artwork of Martha Rosler is …

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2008 Fall

Honor Killings and Human Bombs: Abuses, Old and New

by Jan Goodwin It’s impossible to imagine the sheer terror that five Pakistani women went through at the end of …

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2008 Fall

Anti-Abortion Terror Tactics Take A Toll

by Eleanor J. Bader To the anti-abortion movement, standing outside clinic doors and bellowing at patients and staff that they …

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2008 Fall

The Terror of Motherhood in Somaliland and Women’s Rights to Safe Care

by Edna Adan Ismail A very distraught old woman came to Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland, appealing to …

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2008 Fall

Anti-Immigrant Fervor Translates to Terror for Women

by Melissa Nalani Ross In my work on civil and human rights, especially with immigrant populations, I was contacted recently …

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2008 Fall

Women And The War On Terror: An Unintended Consequence?

by Sallie Bingham The statistics about violence against women in the United States have a deadly sameness that can numb …

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2008 Fall

Terror in Our Homes; Violence Against Women in Zimbabwe

By Tawanda Mudzonga Zimbabwe has always been ruled by fear and violence. Our political history reveals government again and again …

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2008 Fall

Sarah Palin and the Apocalypse

by Merle Hoffman I have been on the psychological defensive since Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican Vice Presidential …

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2008 Fall

Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women

By Ariel Dougherty On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …

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2008 Fall

THEATER ARTS: Whatever Happened to Nora? Women’s Fears Left Huddling on A Grate

by Alexis Greene Recently, while walking on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I live, I saw a woman …

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2008 Summer

Fighting Prostitution at the Expense of Slavery: The 2007 Federal Law

By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined …

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2008 Summer

Of Victims And Vixens–The Feminist Clash Over Prostitution

by Angela Bonavoglia In the wake of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stunning fall from grace in March 2008 for …

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2008 Summer

THEATER ARTS: “RUINED” by Lynn Nottage Links War, Horror and Prostitution, a Preview

by Alexis Greene “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.” Thus speaks the character of the Congolese …

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