Iranian Women Today – Fighting Two Enemies
By MaryLou Greenberg Iranian women are today in the forefront of determined resistance to the oppressive theocracy of the Islamic ...
By MaryLou Greenberg Iranian women are today in the forefront of determined resistance to the oppressive theocracy of the Islamic ...
by Maia Szalavitz “Female addicts are seen as doubly deviant. A drunk man is one thing, but a drunken woman ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Like many survivors of war, 63-year-old Patricia Baird-Windle suffers from chronic Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS). ...
by Penney Kome All day long she twists and flexes her wrist to scan products, lifts bags that can total ...
by Deborah Shouse My friend Elizabeth is in prison. “Please send me poetry books,” she writes. I imagine her sitting ...
by Amy Martin Caridad walks Havana’s famous sea wall, the Malecon, in tall orange pumps. She has squeezed her skinny ...
by Loretta Williams It started just as the bus left the expressway. The familiar warmth began somewhere near my waistline, ...
by Merle Hoffman THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELINGInterview with Lou Marinoff by Merle Hoffman Call me elitist, but I have always ...
by Bill Weiner I must be crazy. I’m one of those social worker types, and the folks I run into ...
by Jody Lannen Brady My grandmother told me the same stories over and over. Many times she’d recount the tale ...
by Angell Delaney Playing like a girl is no longer an insult. It’s a HOOP DREAM millions aspire to.Thousands of ...
The underlying assumption of this new book by literary critic Vivian Gornick is that love — despite all we’ve been ...
by Michelle Brockway She crouched behind the bed and whispered into the phone. She had called the police, she said. ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg Glaring artificial light 24 hours a day, no sense of time, constant surveillance, every remark recorded, ...
by Phyllis Chesler When in doubt or trouble, but also in times of joy, I always return to the sea: ...
by Kavita Menon …She said she would keep fighting for me until I was free. She was like an angel, ...
by Tanya Melich For both parties, the stakes in this November’s off-year election are higher than usual. The 11-vote Republican ...
by Jennifer Tierney The colossal bureaucracy of the United Nations, with its bloated underbelly of agencies, commissions and special advisors ...
by Alan Clements …it is more important to understand the mentality of torturers than just to concentrate on what kind ...
by Swanee Hunt Change never travels in a straight line, so when Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to ...
by Jan Goodwin February 27, 1998 –Thirty-thousand men and boys poured into the dilapidated Olympic sports stadium in Kabul, capital ...
by Toi Derricotte I’m sure most people don’t go around all the time thinking about what race they are. When ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg As I held in my hand the sharp slivers of glass that were now the only ...
by Merle Hoffman No passionate love letters, no dark night of the soul; just a demand to kiss it — ...
by Katherine Eban Finkelstein …many sick people consider research the only way to keep tabs on the doctors they don’t ...
by Marilyn Stasio Between the depression and the danger, the fear and the futility, what makes these women go through ...
by Laura Flanders There’s a crime against humanity being committed in Algeria, but you wouldn’t get that impression from reading ...
by Merle Hoffman You’re going where? The insistent questioning by family and friends reverberated in my head as I flew over ...
Book Review by Carol J. Adams The Cultural Politics of Furby Julia V. Emberley Cornell University Press, 1998 Emberley sees ...
Reviewed by Lisa Vincenti and Patricia Baird-Windle The Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War by Jim Risen and Judy ...
by Sanda Balaban Dear Phyllis: As you know, I was born in 1972, the same year as your book Women and ...
by Phyllis Chesler Here I sit, head bent, writing you an intimate letter. I sense your presence, even though I ...
by Leora Tanenbaum BOMBARDED BY PROPAGANDA ON PREMARIN, WE CAN’T TRUST OUR DOCTOR’S AND WE CAN’T TRUST OURSELVES Barbara Dworkin, ...