Barbara Seaman was an author who persistently challenged the “givens” of the medical establishment. In the 1970s, she became a pioneer in a bustling new
by Carol Hanisch Feminism has always been a problematic term in the struggle for women’s liberation, and now with such unlikely public figures as Sarah
by Merle Hoffman All my life there was a kind of disconnect between my internal and external realities. “Funny,” people would say, “you don’t look
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 day must also signal a
by Rhea Hirshman When I was growing up in Brooklyn, a significant rite of passage for my friends and me was being allowed to ride
by Maame-Mensima Horne I was raised in a feminist household where I was exposed to feminism and its theory early. I realized my grandfather was
by Carol Hanisch Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country and the world were seething
by Merle Hoffman Children are natural resistance fighters. From the time they realize that they have the agency (if not the power) to push back
by Betsy Hartmann It’s back to the bad old days of the population bomb. That was the title of an alarmist book by Stanford biologist
by Maame-Mensima Horne For years reproductive justice activists have been calling for African American women to break the silence around abortion within our communities. Instead, a
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