By Deborah Savadge Remember the Virginia Slims ad campaign from 40 years ago Directed at women, it announced, “You’ve come …
by Eleanor J. Bader Inside insular religious communities in the U.S. women are quietly, and sometimes covertly, rolling back limitations …
by Megan Carpentier This summer, Hanna Rosin warned readers of The Atlantic that the apocalypse was nigh — for boys, at least. …
Car mechanic and mother Audra Fordin dons her work gloves to do a grease job on an automobile in her …
by Lu Bailey I’ve always been interested in the media’s impact on public policy as well as the media’s role …
By Helen Gilbert When I heard from Radical Women members who attended this summer’s U.S. Social Forum that some participants …
by Joan Williams The gender pay gap is standard measure of women’s economic inequality. At the dawn of second-wave feminism, …
By Rev. Rebecca Turner Growing up in a small Missouri town Southern Baptist church in the 1960s, I recall very …
The Editors It’s generally called “nontraditional” employment women working in jobs that are mostly held by men. While becoming an …
By Suzanne Stutman When I grow upPlease let me:Be safe.Learn to read and write.Live with my parentsAnd my brothers and …
Ex-husband by Penelope Scambly Schott I hadn’t understood my breathuntil that long ago Friday night you tried to choke me, …
by Eleanor J. Bader Inside insular religious communities in the U.S. women are quietly, and sometimes covertly, rolling back limitations …
By Sonia Pressman Fuentes On August 26, we’ll be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment …
By Rev. Rebecca Turner Since the 1960s, a sex education war has waged in school districts and state legislatures around …
by Beverly Cooper Neufeld A small cadre of women rallied on the steps of New York’s City Hall on April …
by Natalie Bell By the early 1970s, nearly 20 years after the U.S. Supreme Court had found segregated schools to …
by Mary Lou Greenberg I will always remember the first time I realized that women did not have to live …
By Suzanne Grossman I recently had the pleasure of speaking on a career panel to young women enrolled in Feminist …
by the Editors It’s generally called “nontraditional” employment women working in jobs that are mostly held by men. While becoming …
By Georgia Kral Two indie bands with all female members, Mountain Man from Bennington, Vermont and Sleep Over from Austin, …
By Carol Downer To secure the availability of abortion, we who are “pro-choice” need to take the lessons from the …
by Jennifer L. Pozner Media literacy is our strongest tool against propaganda and manipulation in today’s media-saturated environment. As someone …
by Maureen McNeil Anne Frank wrote that when society fails to protect its people, it’s not just the politicians who …
by Rhea Hirshman When I was growing up in Brooklyn, a significant rite of passage for my friends and me …
In our Spring ’10 edition, THE POET’S EYE features Margaret Randall, Meena Alexander and Suheir Hammad;from Poetry Co-Editor Clare Coss. …
by Arlene Goldbard Citizenship. What with the errors and omissions of cartoon democracy and fervid anti-immigrant agitation, the word has …
by Gcina Mhlophe “Praise to Our Mothers” was performed in 1989 when Gcina Mholphe first met Nokukhanya Luthuli, wife of …
by Barbara Becker Two decades ago, an encounter with a now-famous global trailblazer helped point me on a path of …
by Mary Lou Greenberg Several older women stood on the sidewalk a few feet from the entrance to Choices Women’s …
by Claire Reed flamboyant, Bella strides,stumps, marches, a lightening rod,raucous, rallying the troops, fierce, intense, prodding hard,under the big hat, …
by Jaye Austin Williams In a 2007 interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony Kushner was asked, “Can theater or film make …
by Stephanie Gilmore and Sarah Barr As women – a faculty member and a student – at Dickinson College, a …
by Megan Carpentier When my parents instilled in me the belief that I could do anything a boy could do, …
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