By Meg Heery August 4, 2012 Thankfully, it looks like Olympics fans are finally embracing big, and embracing it where …
By Meg Heery August 3, 2012 Thursday, August 2nd, was a huge day for American women in the prime-time Olympic …
August 2, 2012 If you watched Olympic fencing this week, did you ever wonder what all that screaming was about …
By Meg Heery August 1, 2012 To borrow a line from Tina Turner, we really do need another hero. Smiling, …
July 30, 2012 By Meg Heery London 2012 made good on its hype as the Year of the Woman on …
July 29, 2012 (In daily postings, On the Issues Magazine looks at the 2012 Summer Olympics through a feminist lens.) …
July 28, 2012 By Meg Heery (Every day of the 2012 London Olympics, look to this space at On the …
July 27, 2012 by Carolyn Gage The Internet is abuzz with the posthumous outing of astronaut Sally Ride. Everyone seems …
By Meg Heery July 16, 2012 When I was a kid, running was something boys did, usually scrambling through backyards …
by Carolyn Gage June 28, 2012 As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like …
by Jennifer Jordan I came to this rather obscure subject of “women high altitude climbers” as any self-respecting journalist should …
By Peggy Miller Francke May 10, 2012 The multi-talented sports champion Eleonora Sears died four years before Title IX became …
by Marie Hardin When Title IX became law in 1972, it started a chain of events that have ultimately changed …
by Martha Burk Title IX has been a part of our body of law for 40 years, and it has …
by Gabrielle Korn I have a question. Who decided that sports – competitive, complicated, labor-intensive, rules-driven – are fun? I don’t …
by Laura Pappano As a blogger and reader of women’s sports blogs, I’ve learned that one subject reliably spurs sharp …
by Molly M. Ginty Gathered in a circle on a rainbow of yoga mats, tucking braids, curls and dreadlocks into …
by Ariel Dougherty Forty years ago, at the same time that Title IX was passed by the federal government, Sheila Paige and …
by Lu Bailey This year, my 10 year-old told me that she wanted to try out for the cheerleading squad …
by Rachel Toor Because I never played sports, because I went with my feminist mother to 1970s rallies and women’s …
By Charlotte Taft April 3, 2012 As I write this, I’m not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a …
by Chané Jones and The Feminist Press An exploration about sports soon reveals that it is about much more than …
by Lindsay Parks Pieper Renée Clarke towered over all of her competitors in the 1976 La Jolla tennis tournament. Aided …
By Ann Rose March 28, 2012 Since 1976 when the Hyde Amendment passed, I’ve been hopelessly annoyed with the pro-choice …
by Jane Schonberger Growing up in the ’70s, I loved watching the Olympics. As an athlete myself, I sat mesmerized …
by Mauricio Espinoza Jordan leaped to grab that ball as if nothing else in the world mattered, the way good …
By Janna Frieman March 22, 2012 In January, a woman prematurely gave birth to twins in her cell within 24 …
by Tim Grainey The United States women’s national soccer team played to a television audience of 40 million in 1999, …
by The Editors The convergence of two events this summer brings excitement and attention to women in sports — the …
by Susan J. Bandy As a former athlete and a graduate student in Sports Studies, I embraced feminism in the …
by Andrew D. Linden To watch his daughter, Angela, play quarterback in 2011, former National League Football quarterback Mark Rypien, …
By David Burress March 14, 2012 The right-wing anti-abortion movement’s every argument against abortion has a coherent pro-violent subtext. There …
By Sarah Morison March 8, 2012 In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unprecedented visit to the …
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