Book Corner: Feminist Press Picks Five Top Activist Reads
by Elizabeth Koke and Glynnis King Activists, their stirring written passion and accounts, are also on our bookshelves. The Feminist Press surveyed ...
by Elizabeth Koke and Glynnis King Activists, their stirring written passion and accounts, are also on our bookshelves. The Feminist Press surveyed ...
by Juhu Thukral As social justice advocates, we are often searching for ways to connect and strengthen our movements, and ...
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette New ageism is the term I use to describe the current American view of aging-past-youth. Whatever ...
by Thaler Pekar I remember my first feminist act. It was Spring of 1974, and I was nine years old. ...
by Elizabeth Black When I was in college, I was slut-shamed. On the one hand, I was encouraged to save ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control ...
By Linda Stein September 15, 2011 Conservative Republicans flexed considerable muscle earlier this year and threw a knockout punch against ...
By Keely Swan September 8, 2011 The Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international ...
By Madeline Lee Bryer September 1, 2011 The war against domestic violence is heating up. In a decision released publicly ...
by Yifat Susskind Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996. One day, ...
August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime target in conflict, ...
by Cora Weiss In my years of peace and gender activism, I developed a stock of one-liners about the role ...
By Judith Avory Faucette August 17, 2011 The international legal system treats rape in wartime as a serious crime, especially ...
by Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies ...
By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and ...
The war in Afghanistan is not the first U.S. war in which the ill-treatment of women was used to stoke ...
by Merle Hoffman All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, ...
By Helen Benedict August 3, 2011 In 2006, when I discovered that more women were serving and fighting in the ...
By Autumn Sandeen July 28, 2011 The Veterans Administration released a new directive on transgender veterans in June 2011, “Providing ...
by Pam McAllister How guilty I felt almost 30 years ago, when I was just 31 and sisterhood was powerful. ...
by Eleanor J. Bader The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter ...
by Dr. Terry Neese July 21, 2011 Rwandan women now boast the highest percentage of women in government of any ...
by Kathleen Barry Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich will be in military court this summer of 2011 for a massacre that ...
By Chris Lombardi In 1944 Dorothy Hanson was a 20-year old Army lieutenant, a nurse, stationed in a Staten Island ...
by Susan Feiner t ten years and counting, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the longest in U.S. history. ...
By Lauren Wolfe July 6, 2011 “I’ve never told anyone this before,” the email said. It was one of several ...
By Jeanmarie Simpson June 29, 2011 In October 2002, I was scrolling around on the Internet, when an image caught ...
By Marjorie Signer June 23, 2011 Jessica Kenyon was one of more than 400,000 women who serve in the Armed ...
By Cate Owren May 26, 2011 A major paradigm shift in dealing with climate change has been unfolding in the ...
by Catherine Gropper May 19, 2011 I still remember when I heard the first story in April 2010 about the ...
by Molly M. Ginty Soaring, slithering and swimming, the animals seem undaunted by environmental threats. Overhead, the roseate spoonbills glide, ...
by Laura Eldridge With concerns about environmental contamination growing and Americans becoming increasingly aware of its dimensions, we are asking ...
by Theresa Noll It has been nearly 50 years since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and exposed the harmful effects of DDT, ...