August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime target in conflict, …
by Shelagh Daley August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime …
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. …
As the U.S. approaches a decade of war, what are feminist writers and artists thinking? On The Issues Magazine Summer …
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 Laura A. Shamas July 13, 2011 The archetype of Cassandra may be seen as a key symbol for women …
By Lauren Wolfe July 6, 2011 “I’ve never told anyone this before,” the email said. It was one of several …
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 Cindy Cooper June 6, 2011 Dr. Theo Colborn is often compared to Rachel Carson, whose famous book, Silent Spring will celebrate …
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 Swapna Majumdar May 12, 2011 In an economically distressed region of India, categorized as “severely food insecure,” and prone …
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 Susan Lehman May 8, 2011 As the mother of grown children, I have basked in the annual glow of …
by Theresa Noll It has been nearly 50 years since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and exposed the harmful effects of DDT, …
by Eleanor J. Bader Three years ago, The International Journal of Chemistry published an article positing Biphenyl-A, or BPA, as a primary …
May 3, 2011 One in six women of childbearing age have elevated levels of mercury in her bloodstream, which, if …
by Carolyn Raffensperger March 16, 2011 I struggle to understand the spiritual and ecological nature of being a living being, …
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