Praise the lord and kill the doctor
by Merle Hoffman Question: What would you do if you found yourself in a room with Hitler, Mussolini, and an ...
by Merle Hoffman Question: What would you do if you found yourself in a room with Hitler, Mussolini, and an ...
by Merle Hoffman Nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of death. Contemplating the cessation of being immediately changes priorities. ...
by Gina Ogden Women who what?” “Women Who Love Sex,” I repeat to the interviewer on the telephone. “That’s what ...
by Bonnie Pfister What’s an activist to do when everyone from George Will to “Saturday Night Live” satirizes your work ...
by Fred Pelka EXPOSING HEALTH CHAUVINISM “Nothing comes to an individual that he has not…summoned…. A person’s external circumstances do ...
by Elayne Clift “You’ll have to have a hysterectomy, of course,” my doctor said nearly three years ago. Maybe, I ...
by Andrea Wolper Resort hotels should be filled with laughter, but in March 1993 the atmosphere at this one in ...
by Loretta J. Ross Dorothy Brown, MD, the first black female surgeon in the U.S., was also the first American ...
by Elayne Clift The controversial Arkansas physician answered questions from ON THE ISSUES contributing editor Elayne Clift in November, 1993. ...
by Phyllis Chesler These are the times that try feminist souls. “Femininity” is back – even among feminists – and ...
by John Stoltenberg This is written to men – but so that women can overhear every word. It discloses some ...
by Neil deMause It was September of 1991, and thing were looking up for foes of the bogus clinics that ...
by Lynn Phillips We’re supposed to revere our feminist foremothers, but most of us don’t. One friend of mine describes ...
by Maxine Lipner Imagine having oral contraceptives as available as aspirin – a steady supply no further away than the ...
by Ronni Sandroff AS THE DAUGHTER OF TWO LABOR ORGANIZERS, my early childhood education included how to spot FBI agents ...
by Heather Rhoads Arch-conservative Phyllis Schlafly and long-time ERA proponent Ellie Smeal came head-to-head in Iowa last year, where “shocking” ...
By Neil deMause The murder of David Gunn was just the warning shot in a right-wing campaign to cleanse America ...
by Jeannine O. Howitz I am seven months pregnant, slithering along my kitchen floor. The ruler I clutch is for ...
by Norine Dworhin For a moment, after 12 years of Ronald Reagan and George Bush’s antiabortion policies and their winking, ...
Blockades, Firebombs, Murder – A frontline report by Mary Lou Greenberg In Pensacola, Florida March 10, for the “crime” of ...
by Christine Schaack McGoey When the trial of four of those men began on September 21, 1992 nobody guessed that ...
by Betsy Swart They took us by forceand tied us with oppression.They divided us with bigotryand their class system.They thought ...
by Merle Hoffman In the morning that I would be posing for photographers for an upcoming profile in Lears magazine ...
by Bonnie Pfister From the loose coalition of punk rock teens calling themselves Riot Grrls to the recently reinvigorated Students ...
by Jill Benderly Horror and outrage have been the world’s response to systematic mass rape and forced pregnancy of Bosnian ...
by Elayne Clift “If I could have a magic wand tomorrow and do one thing for this economy,” then President-elect ...
For the first time in U.S. history, a woman stands accused of being a serial killer – of having killed ...
by Betsy Swart On October 16,1992, Sheena Campbell, a 29-year-old activist and feminist, was wantonly murdered by a masked gunman ...
by Flo Kennedy and Irene Davall WOMEN SHOULD SEE “MALCOLM X” AS A BLUEPRINT TO FOLLOW IN OUR FIGHT FOR ...
by Rebecca Chalker In Los Angeles in 1971, before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, a small group of women began ...
by Elayne Clift The hype is that women are frivolous, if not downright evil, frittering their time away in law ...
by Norine Dworkin “It’s not that I have penis envy. It’s just that the people with them seem to go ...
by Beverly Lowy Perhaps nothing is more awe-inspiring than the accomplishments of African American women, some famous and some unknown ...