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 …
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