by Merle Hoffman Everest — avatar of the Himalayas.Everest — whom the Nepalese call Sagamartha and the Tibetans call Chomolungma …
REVIEWED BY SALLY OWEN Media coverage of the Million Man March on Washington generated five stories for every one accorded …
by Kay Mills In these anxious times, will women make a difference?Only if they’re on the ballot. Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder’s …
by Sheila Jeffreys Why has the Big O seduced so many feminists — even Ms. — into a counterrevolution from …
REVIEWED BY ELEANOR J. BADER Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus:A Practical Guide for Improving Communications and Getting …
by MERLE HOFFMAN Elizabeth I had a proper perspective on political marriage. Having seen both her mother and her stepmother …
by Peggy Simpson At 32, Irene Pivetti is the youngest speaker of the Italian Parliament in history. Irene Pivetti has …
by Jill Johnston I HAVE FLOWN TO LONDON, MY BIRTHPLACE, ON many occasions as an adult, but last September I went …
by Dawn and Mary E. Atkins a daughter’s story by Dawn E. Atkins I am the daughter of a fat …
by Sally Roesch Wagner The Untold Iroquois Influence on Early Radical Feminists: An intrepid historian tracks down the source of …
by Jennifer Gonnerman IN THE POSH BALLROOM OF CINCINNATI’S OMNI Netherland Plaza hotel, a 69-year-old man with a white, wicker …
By Bryna Taubman Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship.’ The Pali Canon (sacred scriptures of …
Dropping the laboring woman on the bed was an ancient method of hastening childbirth among the ancient Greeks in the …
By Anonymous EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this true account led an apparently respectable life for over 20 years while …
by Merle Hoffman The symptoms arrived a few years ago. At first I experienced them as a generalized discomfort, amorphous …
by Andrea Peyser It took only minutes from the time some unseen hand blew a hole in the heart of …
with Julianne Malveaux The image, self-esteem and activism of African American women were the subjects of a wide-ranging conversation, arranged …
by Andrea Dworkin Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Real Story of the Bill of Rights Why isn’t the Constitution …
by Kathleen Barry Across nation-states, pimping, “living off the earnings of a prostitute,” is illegal. But pro-prostitution movements in the …
by Ronni Sandroff Social values support the “act” of marriage, but conspire against romance, passion, and equal relationships. “I’m definitely …
By Diana E. H. Russell How many ACLU lawyers does it take to screw over women harmed by porn? Try …
RESPECT FOR STARTER RELATIONSHIPS While living together was not unheard of in the 1960s and 1970s, it usually quickly led …
by Marlene C. Piturro “I don’t regard Mrs. Chan as a woman. She’s far too forceful and inflexible in her …
by Laurel Touby A gift of this magnitude was bound to alter our fiscal interactions (and, who knows, maybe foment …
by Leah Rose Was it murder or self-defense? Some legal experts and activists in Ulster County, N.Y. say the jurors …
by Jill Johnston In May 1989 the Danish Parliament granted lesbians and gay men the right to civil marriage — …
by Mahin Hassibi No need for a revolution from within — or without. Let them eat Prozac. LIKE MANY PSYCHIATRISTS, …
Love has long been a source of power for women — at times our sole means of influence. “A woman’s …
by Phyllis Chesler It is time, and Second Wave* feminists are beginning to document their salad days. In the late …
by Deborah Horan As Daniela Khalaf sits in the air-conditioned studio of the nascent Palestine Broadcast Corp. where she anchors …
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