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2008 Fall

Anti-Abortion Terror Tactics Take A Toll

by Eleanor J. Bader To the anti-abortion movement, standing outside clinic doors and bellowing at patients and staff that they …

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2008 Fall

The Terror of Motherhood in Somaliland and Women’s Rights to Safe Care

by Edna Adan Ismail A very distraught old woman came to Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland, appealing to …

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2008 Fall

Anti-Immigrant Fervor Translates to Terror for Women

by Melissa Nalani Ross In my work on civil and human rights, especially with immigrant populations, I was contacted recently …

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2008 Fall

San Francisco Could End Terror, Witch-hunting and Criminalization for Prostitutes with Prop K

by Rachel West On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …

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2008 Fall

Women And The War On Terror: An Unintended Consequence?

by Sallie Bingham The statistics about violence against women in the United States have a deadly sameness that can numb …

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2008 Fall

Terror in Our Homes; Violence Against Women in Zimbabwe

By Tawanda Mudzonga Zimbabwe has always been ruled by fear and violence. Our political history reveals government again and again …

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2008 Fall

Sarah Palin and the Apocalypse

by Merle Hoffman I have been on the psychological defensive since Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican Vice Presidential …

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2008 Fall

Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women

By Ariel Dougherty On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …

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2008 Fall

THEATER ARTS: Whatever Happened to Nora? Women’s Fears Left Huddling on A Grate

by Alexis Greene Recently, while walking on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I live, I saw a woman …

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2008 Fall

The Art Perspective: Fall ’08

OTI Online provides a forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as well as stills. …

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2008 Fall

The Poet’s Eye: Fall ’08

Poems by Kirsten Rian and Juditha Dowd Reading Poems By Girl Mothers in Sierra Leone – by Kirsten Rian It …

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2008 Summer

Fighting Prostitution at the Expense of Slavery: The 2007 Federal Law

By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined …

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2008 Summer

When Revolution in China Elevated Women and Took Prostitution off the Market 

By Mary Lou Greenberg During the recent Beijing Olympics, the Washington Post reported that up to 10 million women in …

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2008 Summer

Of Victims And Vixens–The Feminist Clash Over Prostitution

by Angela Bonavoglia In the wake of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stunning fall from grace in March 2008 for …

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2008 Summer

THEATER ARTS: “RUINED” by Lynn Nottage Links War, Horror and Prostitution, a Preview

by Alexis Greene “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.” Thus speaks the character of the Congolese …

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2008 Summer

Nothing About Us, Without Us

by Ann Jordan Between March and June, scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where …

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2008 Summer

“How you dress shouldn’t be cause for arrest”

By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment …

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2008 Summer

Erotic Laborers Find Outlet in $pread

By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media …

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2008 Summer

Sex Work and Prostitution — Beholders See Different Issues In Past Stories

by Mary Lou Greenberg Women and sex — for pleasure, for money, as an oppression, as a profession — is …

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2008 Summer

On the Frontline of Sex Wars

by Carol Leigh Prostitutes are “the only street fighters we’ve got,” wrote radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in her 1974 book, Amazon …

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2008 Summer

Affinity

By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. …

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2008 Summer

The Art Perspective – Summer ’08

By Linda Stein OTI Online provides a forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as …

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2008 Summer

The Poet’s Eye: Summer ’08

Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt and Erin Whitfield Selling Women – By Minnie Bruce PrattOn the cell phone to a …

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2008 Summer

Safeguarding the Rights of Prostituted Women On the Frontlines of a Global Grassroots Movement

By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even …

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2008 Summer

Putting Together Pieces Of Sex Work, Gender Inequality, Deadly Consequences

By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about …

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2008 Summer

Let’s Change the Equation on Sex and Earning

By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a …

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2008 Summer

Poetry: Broken Box

By Christine Stark I can’t write nothingBeautiful. I am expected to be that way because I am a girl writer …

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2008 Summer

Stop the Traffick: Stiffening State Laws Helps Trapped Women

by Sonia Ossorio I know a woman from South America who spent her first night in the Big Apple in …

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2008 Summer

Female Orgasm Today: The Hite Report’s Research Then and Now

by Shere Hite “I always wanted to have orgasm during intercourse with him — seems like the impossible dream. I …

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2008 Summer

“It’s Not TV, Its Sexploitation” Protest Against Home Box Office

by Norma Ramos Home Box Office (HBO) advertises the Cathouse DVD this way: If you’ve got a credit card, it’s all there …

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2008 Summer

Does Working Girls Still Work?

by Ariel Dougherty Working Girls is a classic film on sex work, which many professors report using in college courses for …

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2008 Summer

Feminist Divisions Cause Real-World Repercussions

by Juhu Thukral The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, …

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2008 Summer

Naked Truth: Reality and Fantasy Are (Stripper) Poles Apart

by Bernadette Barton Every semester I assign my undergraduate students in my gender and sexuality courses a class project on …

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