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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

The Poet’s Eye: Spring ’11

In our Spring ’11 edition, THE POET’S EYE features RED 1800s by Denise Bergman, Hurry, it’s coming by Marge Piercy, …

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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

Infrastructure: Fiction Techniques and Shaping Public Health

by Lise Saffran April 5, 2011 To an American college student, there is nothing more invisible than the infrastructure that …

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2011 Spring

Poetry: Reliving the Nuclear Nightmare

by Karen Ethelsdattar March 29, 2011 With the now-ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, I was shaken all over again. After …

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2011 Spring

Nuclear Revival? Lessons for Women from the Three Mile Island Accident

by Karen Charman For the first time in several decades, serious attempts are underway to build new nuclear power reactors. …

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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

Female Violence in Search of Justice

by Linda Stein March 9, 2011 Remember Lorena Bobbitt? I asked my partner that question and her response was a …

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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

Films that Inform Our Lives: Maybe Next Year?

by Heather Cowherd March 1, 2011 In 1995, at the age of ten, I wanted to be like Princess Aurora, …

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2011 Winter

Academic Feminisms: Gaining or Losing Ground?

by Resa Crane Bizzaro February 23, 2011 When I first thought about writing this essay, I was a little afraid …

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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

Controlling Women: Reasons to Worry About the Scott Sisters

by Caroline Picker February 17, 2011 What would you trade for your freedom? Why should you care about the Scott …

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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

Disappearing the word “rape”

by Stephanie Gilmore The Super Bowl is over, and although the Pittsburgh Steelers lost a record-setting seventh victory, star quarterback …

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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

Of Hallie Flanagan and Women Who Won’t Be Silent

by Alexis Greene The American theater director and educator Hallie Flanagan Davis, hero of Ruth Wolff’s play Hallie, grew to womanhood during …

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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

Feminists Lose Ground Working With Social Conservatives On Trafficking

by Melissa Ditmore Many people are surprised to learn that some contemporary feminists work with Right-wing Christians on the issue …

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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 Poet’s Eye: Winter ’11

In our Winter ’11 edition, THE POET’S EYE features ANNA’S ESTATE by Grace Cavalieri, Walking the edge of the windowpane …

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2011 Winter

Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary: A Time for Celebration and Commitment

by Merle Hoffman As we celebrate the 38th anniversary on Jan 22nd of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, this …

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