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  • Violence
  • Race
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  • Activism and Politics in the US
  • Abortion
2011 Spring

Snipping Pink Sentimentality: Persisting on the Whys of Breast Cancer

by Eleanor J. Bader Three years ago, The International Journal of Chemistry published an article positing Biphenyl-A, or BPA, as a primary …

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2011 Spring

Clean Up: Shareholder Activism Pushes Companies Larissa Ruoff

May 3, 2011 One in six women of childbearing age have elevated levels of mercury in her bloodstream, which, if …

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2011 Spring

My Body, The Earth ; The Earth, My Body

by Carolyn Raffensperger March 16, 2011 I struggle to understand the spiritual and ecological nature of being a living being, …

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2011 Spring

Women in Tyvek: Hope in Nontraditional Green Jobs

by Alexis Greene April 26, 2011 Every morning the trucks roll out of the garage at Community Environmental Center (CEC), …

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2011 Spring

A Tribute to Barbara Seaman: Triggering a revolution in women’s health care

Barbara Seaman was an author who persistently challenged the “givens” of the medical establishment. In the 1970s, she became a …

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2011 Spring

Mother Nature Gets Naughty: Eco-Friendly Sex Toys

by Elizabeth Black I am a copywriter for a sex toys company in England, and, for several years, I’ve written …

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2011 Spring

Acting As If Future Generations Matter

by Carolyn Raffensperger “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.It is …

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2011 Spring

Webs of Connection: Trees, Women, Activism

By Marianne Schnall April 19. 2011 The Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist writer, often talks about the concept …

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2011 Spring

Gulf Oil Drilling Disaster: Gendered Layers of Impact

by Jacqui Patterson The Deepwater Horizon Oil Drilling Disaster of April 20, 2010 (the “BP Oil Spill”) is, as the …

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2011 Spring

Dirty Down There: The Selling of “Feminine” Products

By Lu Bailey April 12, 2011 Several years ago, I attended a workshop about the history of douching. The topic …

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2011 Spring

Life’s Precious Trio: Women, Water and Health

by Elayne Clift Her day begins before dawn. She walks over four miles on uneven paths to reach a hand-dug …

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2011 Spring

Little Girl Lost: Early Puberty Hides Environmental Injustice

by Michelle Chen When a little girl starts growing breasts a year after losing her first baby tooth, her parents …

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2011 Spring

Four Bags: My Mother’s Gift of Living Simply

by Sarah Flint Erdreich March 22, 2011 The best Hanukkah gift I ever gave my mother was four canvas bags. …

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2011 Winter

Feminist, Feminisme, Feministe? Anti-Patriarchy is Key

By Karen Offen March 4, 2011 In her article Feminism Is as Feminism Does, Merle Hoffman invokes the question that many …

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2011 Winter

Women’s Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward

by Carol Hanisch Feminism has always been a problematic term in the struggle for women’s liberation, and now with such …

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2011 Winter

Not-so-New Right Wing Women

by Abby Scher The doctor’s wife was an educated woman, she’d raised two children, and been active in her community …

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2011 Winter

Republicans Aim to ‘Divide and Conquer’

by Lu Bailey There’s something very peculiar about what has happened in American politics during the last election cycle. The …

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2011 Winter

Icons, Superheroes and Fantasies a Feminist Can Love?

by Linda Stein I hate violent movies. I was never drawn to the shoot ‘em up genre that attracts so …

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2011 Winter

The Rise of Enlightened Sexism

by Susan J. Douglas Today, we once again have what Betty Friedan famously called “a problem with no name.” Millions …

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2011 Winter

Feminism Is As Feminism Does

by Merle Hoffman All my life there was a kind of disconnect between my internal and external realities. “Funny,” people …

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2011 Winter

‘Abortion’ as Right’s Multipurpose Scare Word

by Amanda Marcotte Abortion: most of us tend to think the word has a fixed meaning, which is: terminating a …

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2011 Winter

‘Feminists for Life’: A built-in contradiction?

by Eleanor J. Bader Sarah Palin, on the vice-presidential campaign trail in 2008, raised the profile of a previously obscure …

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2011 Winter

An On The Issues Featured Video: “To the Oklahoma Lawmakers: poem”

by Lauren Zuniga Visit On The Issue Magazine’s channel on YouTube for our original and favorite videos.

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2011 Winter

The Sexual Politics of Meat Revisited

by Theresa Noll Carol Adams’s The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory is a pivotal feminist text in which Adams …

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2011 Winter

Art Exhibit: Judy Chicago

On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as …

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2011 Winter

Lady Gaga: Celebrity Feminist?

by Nona Willis Aronowitz This past summer, I found myself in Chicago’s Grant Park amid a sea of zealots. They …

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2011 Winter

The Conning of the Feminists

From the Editors The Conning of the Feminists — this edition of On the Issues Magazine — looks at feminist icons, feminist values …

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2011 Winter

Reality TV (Re)Rewrites Gender Roles

by Jennifer L. Pozner Step right up, folks, it’s time for everyone’s favorite guessing game, Regress-o-Rama. Who said the following? …

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2011 Winter

Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women

by Loretta J. Ross Sixty-five billboards were quickly erected in predominantly African American neighborhoods in Atlanta on February 5, 2010. …

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2010 Winter

Judging Our Future: Supreme Women Move Up

By Sonia Fuentes In my lifetime, this country has seen dramatic changes with regard to women on the U.S. Supreme …

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2010 Winter

Harriet’s Voice: A Writer and Her Inhabitation

by Karen Jones Meadows As a child I learned of Harriet Tubman, icon of the anti-enslavement movement, and the most …

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2010 Summer

Gloria Feldt’s “No Excuses” and Ways to Think About Power

By Theresa Noll As Gloria Feldt points out in her new book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way …

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2010 Summer

Health Inequality: Gates Foundation Bans Abortion

by Marcy Bloom Melinda French Gates, philanthropist, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was greeted with …

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