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2011 Fall

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 …

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2011 Fall

Sexual Rights: Advocating for Vibrant Reframing

by Juhu Thukral As social justice advocates, we are often searching for ways to connect and strengthen our movements, and …

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2011 Fall

Taking A Stand Against Ageism at All Ages: A Powerful Coalition

by Margaret Morganroth Gullette New ageism is the term I use to describe the current American view of aging-past-youth. Whatever …

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2011 Fall

Stories Matter: How to Power Up Your Activism

by Thaler Pekar I remember my first feminist act. It was Spring of 1974, and I was nine years old. …

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2011 Fall

Good Girls, Bad Girls: The Kinkiness of Slut-Shaming

by Elizabeth Black When I was in college, I was slut-shamed. On the one hand, I was encouraged to save …

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2011 Fall

Heather Ault: Visualizing 4000 Years of Choice

by Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control …

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2011 Summer

Pushing Back Attacks on Artistic Freedom

By Linda Stein September 15, 2011 Conservative Republicans flexed considerable muscle earlier this year and threw a knockout punch against …

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2011 Summer

Challenging Militarism and Ending Violence Against Women

By Keely Swan September 8, 2011 The Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international …

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2011 Summer

Most Wanted: Meaningful Enforcement in the War Against Domestic Abuse

By Madeline Lee Bryer September 1, 2011 The war against domestic violence is heating up. In a decision released publicly …

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2011 Summer

Violence Against Women Surges When War Is “Done”

by Yifat Susskind Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996. One day, …

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2011 Summer

Ending Wartime Rape Means Ending War and Ending Patriarchy

August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime target in conflict, …

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2011 Summer

Peace is a Human Right: Give Us Women Who Get It

by Cora Weiss In my years of peace and gender activism, I developed a stock of one-liners about the role …

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2011 Summer

Ending Wartime Rape Means Ending War and Patriarchy

By Judith Avory Faucette August 17, 2011 The international legal system treats rape in wartime as a serious crime, especially …

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2011 Summer

The Cruel Lie: Bombing To Liberate Women

by Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies …

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2011 Summer

Fighting to Fight: Questioning the Battle of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and …

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2011 Summer

A Lesson From History: WWII and Fighting to Keep Women From Slavery

The war in Afghanistan is not the first U.S. war in which the ill-treatment of women was used to stoke …

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2011 Summer

All Wars Are Intimate Wars

by Merle Hoffman All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, …

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2011 Summer

Why I Wrote A War Novel

By Helen Benedict August 3, 2011 In 2006, when I discovered that more women were serving and fighting in the …

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2011 Summer

Good News for Trans Veterans: New VA Health Care Guidelines

By Autumn Sandeen July 28, 2011 The Veterans Administration released a new directive on transgender veterans in June 2011, “Providing …

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2011 Summer

Finding Hope: Reweaving — Then and Now

by Pam McAllister How guilty I felt almost 30 years ago, when I was just 31 and sisterhood was powerful. …

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2011 Summer

War Resisters Inject Truth into Military Recruitment

by Eleanor J. Bader The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter …

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2011 Summer

Afghan and Rwandan Women Entrepreneurs Seek Peace through Business

by Dr. Terry Neese July 21, 2011 Rwandan women now boast the highest percentage of women in government of any …

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2011 Summer

A Feminist Looks at Masculine Rage and the Haditha Massacre

by Kathleen Barry Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich will be in military court this summer of 2011 for a massacre that …

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2011 Summer

Paradoxes of Women in Uniform Take Deep Listening

By Chris Lombardi In 1944 Dorothy Hanson was a 20-year old Army lieutenant, a nurse, stationed in a Staten Island …

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2011 Summer

Gender Values: The Costs of War

by Susan Feiner t ten years and counting, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the longest in U.S. history. …

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2011 Summer

Trapped in the Story : Local Journalists Face Sexual Violence

By Lauren Wolfe July 6, 2011 “I’ve never told anyone this before,” the email said. It was one of several …

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2011 Summer

Jeannette Rankin, Suffragist and Pacifist: She Speaks for Me

By Jeanmarie Simpson June 29, 2011 In October 2002, I was scrolling around on the Internet, when an image caught …

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2011 Summer

Military Women: Unfair Denial of Abortion Access Needs to End

By Marjorie Signer June 23, 2011 Jessica Kenyon was one of more than 400,000 women who serve in the Armed …

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2011 Spring

Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Climate Change

By Cate Owren May 26, 2011 A major paradigm shift in dealing with climate change has been unfolding in the …

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2011 Spring

For the Birds: My Personal Eco Activism

by Catherine Gropper May 19, 2011 I still remember when I heard the first story in April 2010 about the …

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2011 Spring

Swamped: Trying to Save Fragile Bodies

by Molly M. Ginty Soaring, slithering and swimming, the animals seem undaunted by environmental threats. Overhead, the roseate spoonbills glide, …

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2011 Spring

Adding Environmental Footprints to Birth Control Choices

by Laura Eldridge With concerns about environmental contamination growing and Americans becoming increasingly aware of its dimensions, we are asking …

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2011 Spring

Moving the Silence: Rachel Carson’s Groundbreaking Work

by Theresa Noll It has been nearly 50 years since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and exposed the harmful effects of DDT, …

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