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COMPLETE AUTHOR INDEX IN THE ONLINE EDITION
Authors of Articles in the Online Edition of On The Issues Magazine (alphabetically by last name).
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Carol J. Adams
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Terrorizing the Loved Pets of Women, Fall 2008
Lori Adelman
--Fighting to Gratify a Sex Instinct? War Attitudes Vary by Gender, Summer 2011
Cathy Albisa
-- The Terror of Loving and Losing, Fall 2008
Judy Gumbo Alpert
--My Body, My Story: In Memory of Dr. Tiller, Spring 2009, Cafe
Lakshmi Anantnarayan
--Safeguarding the Rights of Prostituted Women, Summer 2008, Cafe
Katrina Anderson and Cynthia Soohoo
-- High Rates of HIV and STDs Show the US is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights, May 2008, Cafe
Judith Arcana
-- The Poet's Eye, Fall 2011
--The Poet's Eye, Spring 2011
-- Grace Paley’s True North: Justice in Writing and Action, Winter 2010
Nona Willis Aronowitz
-- Lady Gaga: Celebrity Feminist?, Winter 2011
Janine Avril
--Women with AIDS, Off the Radar Screen, May 2008, Cafe
Eleanor Bader
--Heather Ault: Visualizing 4000 Years of Choice, Fall 2011
--War Resisters Inject Truth into Military Recruitment, Summer 2011
--Snipping Pink Sentimentality: Persisting on the Whys of Breast Cancer, Spring 2011
-- 'Feminists for Life': A Built-In Contradiction?, Winter 2011
-- Snood by Snood, Tight-Knit Orthodox Piety Loosens
Up, Summer 2010
-- To Halt Emotional Abuse, French Law Teaches Bullies a Lesson, Spring 2010
-- Facing Down Danger to Make Reproductive Freedom a Reality, Winter 2010
-- Beginning with the Children: To Teach Peace, Fall 2009
-- Trans Health Care Is a Life and Death Matter, Summer 2009
-- Activists Boost Female Health Empowerment, Spring 2009
-- Film Review: MILK and Recruiting for Rights, Winter 2009
--Anti-Abortion Terror Tactics Take a Toll, Fall 2008
-- Book Review: AIDS, Women, Africa, May 2008
Lu Bailey
--Dirty Down There: The Selling of "Feminine" Products, Spring 2011, Cafe
-- Republicans Aim to 'Divide and Conquer", Winter 2011
-- Defeating Racism and Sexism with the Politics of
Authenticity, Summer 2010
-- Race and Gender: Two Lovers Who Dare to Kiss, Fall 2009, Café
--Put Self-Objectification Under Wraps, Spring 2009, Cafe
Marion Banzhaf
--Putting Money Where Our Causes Are, Winter 2009
Melynda H. Barnhart
--Fighting Prostitution at the Expense of Slavery, Summer 2008, Cafe
Sarah Barr and Stephanie Gilmore
--Listening Up: Students Blow the Whistle on Sexual Violence on Campus, Spring 2010
Kathleen Barry
--My Feminist Action: Locating Sex in Sexual Harassment and Rape, Fall 2011 Cafe
--A Feminist Looks at Masculine Rage and the Haditha Massacre, Summer 2011
--Feminist Human Rights vs. The Conning of Patriotism, Winter 2011, Cafe
--Equally Expendable: Looking at Men and War through a Feminist Paradigm, Summer 2010 Cafe
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Bernadette Barton
--Naked Truth, Reality and Fantasy Are (Stripper) Poles Apart, Summer 2008
Jennifer Baumgardner
-- Glamorous, progressive, campy, and radical: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
-- Filming to Shatter the Stigma, Fall 2008
Rosalyn Baxandall
--The Populist Movement Reborn, At Last, In Occupy, Fall 2011 Cafe
Betty M. Bayer
--Student Think Tank, Fall 2011
Barbara Becker
--Dispatches from the Road: A Travelogue of True Stories, Spring 2010
--With the Understanding of Ghandi, Aminatou Put Her Life on the Line, Winter 2010
Natalie Bell
-- 'Earth to Natalie': One Teacher and Integration in Nashville, Spring 2010 Café
-- Exclusive: Women of Color Push Boundaries on Reproductive Justice, Fall 2009
-- The Down Low Effect, May 2008, Cafe
Helen Benedict
--Why I Wrote A War Novel, Summer 2011, Cafe
Janet Benshoof
-- Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi: End Male Power Structures, Winter 2010
--Twisted Treaty Shafts U.S. Women, Winter 2009
Sallie Bingham
--Women and the War on Terror, An Unintended Consequence? Fall 2008
Resa Crane Bizzaro
-- Academic Feminisms: Gaining or Losing Ground?, Winter 2011 Cafe
-- Enemies and Heroes: A Memoir of Two Women, Winter 2010
-- Teens and Indian Health Service: Saving Both, Fall 2009 Café
Elizabeth Black
--Mother Nature Gets Naughty: Eco-Friendly Sex Toys, Spring 2011
-- Good Girls, Bad Girls: The Kinkiness of
Slut-Shaming, Summer 2010
Marcy Bloom
-- Health Inequality: Gates Foundation Bans
Abortion, Summer 2010
--What is a Woman Worth? The Global Story is the Feminization of a Pandemic, May 2008
Angela Bonavoglia
-- Women Challenge Gender Apartheid in
the Catholic Church, Summer 2010
-- Open Drag Night at the Outpost Lounge, Summer 2009, Cafe
-- Of Victims and Vixens-The Feminist Clash Over Prostitution, Summer 2008
Kate Bornstein
-- Teens, Freaks, Outlaws and Alternatives to Suicide, Summer 2009 Cafe
Helen Boyd
--How a Feminist Found Her Sexism, Summer 2009
Dr. Ann Boyer
-- Having Children When You Have HIV–Still a Problem? May 2008, Cafe
Theresa Braine
-- Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence, Winter 2010
Rita Nakashima Brock
-- Religious Repugnance Obscures Need for Sex Work Decriminalization, Summer 2008
Sarah Browing
--Food for The Soul: Poetry That Pierces Injustice, Fall 2011
Melissa Sontag Brudo and Rachel Grinstein
--Stop Murder and Violence Against Sex Workers, Winter 2011 Cafe
Madeline Lee Bryer
--Most Wanted: Meaningful Enforcement in the War Against Domestic Abuse, Summer 2011, Cafe
Sarah Byrnes
--Resilience Circles: Consciousness-Raising Groups for Tough Economic Times, Fall 2011 Cafe
Charlotte Bunch
-- Listen Up: UN Must Hear Women on Violence, Spring 2009
Leslie Cagan
--Unfurling the Progressive Banner: Where We Are, Fall 2011
Leslie Cagle
--What Every Woman Should Know, Fall 2011
Talia Carner
-- Women Are the Solution, Not the Problem, Summer 2009 Cafe
Megan Carpentier
-- Alright Then, Let Men Compete, Summer 2010
-- A Feminist's U-Turn: A Torrid Tale of Disappointment and Discovery, Spring 2010
Rebecca Chalker
--Know Thy Clitoris, Spring 2009
Pam Chamberlain
--Common Enemies: LGBT, Abortion Share Foes, Spring 2009
Karen Charman
--Dared to challenge a powerful industry: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
--Nuclear Revival? Lessons for Women from the Three Mile Island Accident, Spring 2011
Michelle Chen
--Little Girl Lost: Early Puberty Hides Environmental Injustice, Spring 2011
Chanda Chevannes
--A Tale of Two Nursing Mothers, Spring 2011
Elayne Clift
--Life’s Precious Trio: Women, Water and Health,Spring 2011
-- Maternal Mortality, Slavery, Fistula Fill Half The Sky, Winter 2010
Lesley Cohen
--Midwifery Reborn: Politicians Take Note,Winter 2009, Cafe
Sharon Collingwood
--Female Avatars Hail “Second Life," Winter 2009
rebecca s.a. connie and Tara Malik
-- Youth Videos Push Back Gender Violence, Winter 2009, Cafe
Carolyn Cook
-- Say "I Do": Constitutional Equality is Forever", Summer 2010
Cindy Cooper
--"Occupy" and Feminism Equal New Solidarity: Frances Fox Piven Speaks, Fall 2011 Cafe
--Theo Colborn: Making her own scientific path, Spring 2011 Cafe
-- Dear Antis: Voters Say No To Your Abortion Bans, Winter 2011, Cafe
-- Stop the Con and Take ERA All the Way, Winter 2011, Cafe
-- Gender Equality: Devil in the Details, Summer 2010
-- In the Act Alone: German Resistance to the Nazi Movement, Winter 2010
-- Loretta Ross Unmasks Black Anti-Abortion Message, Media Spin, Winter 2010
-- In Peril: North African Freedom Fighter on Hunger Strike, Fall 2009, Cafe
-- Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, The Terror and Error of Sarah Palin, Fall 2008, Cafe
-- Not Enough Women Use Web Resource, May 2008, Cafe
Rhonda Copelon
-- End Torture, End Domestic Violence, Winter 2009
Clare Coss
--White Silence and Responsibility, Fall 2009, Café
Helen Cowherd
--Films that Inform Our Lives: Maybe Next Year?, Winter 2011, Cafe
Shelagh Daley
--No Women, No Peace: Time to Change Peace Building, Summer 2011, Cafe
Crystal DeBoise
--Stopping Police and DAs from Using Condoms to Convict Sex Workers, Fall 2011 Cafe
Melissa Ditmore
--Feminists Lose Ground Working With Social Conservatives on Trafficking, Winter 2011, Cafe
Ariel Dougherty
-- Misogyny Makes Money: Review of "The Social Network", Winter 2011, Cafe
-- Girls Kick: Moving the Media's World Cup
Goal Posts, Summer 2010
-- “The Heretics”: Film Invigorates Feminism, Art, Politics, Summer 2009, Café
-- Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women, Fall 2008
-- Does Working Girls Still Work? Summer 2008
Susan J. Douglas
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The Rise of
Enlightened Sexism, Winter 2011
Carol Downer
-- No Stopping: From Pom-Poms to Saving Women's Bodies, Fall 2011
-- A Blast From the Past Can Secure Abortion Rights, Spring 2010, Cafe
-- Women Hold Demonstrations for Liberation in Iraq and Afghanistan, Winter 2010
-- "Rejected Letters"; Iranian Women Mark 30 Years of Struggle to Reclaim Our Lives, Winter 2009
The Editors
-- ACTIVISM!, Fall 2011
--A Lesson From History: WWII and Fighting to Keep Women From Slavery, Summer 2011, Cafe
-- A Tribute to Barbara Seaman: Triggering a revolution in women’s health care, Spring 2011
-- "Nontraditional": A Video Makes a Car Job Seem Auto-Matic, Summer 2010, Cafe
-- Mahin Hassibi, Visionary Ideas, Thinking Out Loud, Winter 2010
-- From Our Files: Related Stories to Passion, Freedom & Women, Winter 2010
-- Race, Feminism, Our Future, Fall 2009
-- From Our Files: Gender Always on the Agenda, Summer 2009
-- Our Genders, Our Rights, Summer 2009
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Bad Thoughts: Religious Reactionaries on HIV-AIDS, May 2008
-- Articles from the Past on HIV-AIDS, May 2008
Diana Egozcue
-- Who the Revolution Left Behind, Winter 2009, Cafe
Laura Eldridge
-- Work Grew Out of Personal Experience: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
--Adding Environmental Footprints to Birth Control Choices, Spring 2011
--In His Shorts: What Happened to Male Birth Control?, Summer 2010, Cafe
Barbara Ehrenreich
-- Unstoppable, and, when necessary, disruptive: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
Sarah Flint Erdrich
--Four Bags: My Mother's Gift of Living Simply, Spring 2011, Cafe
--"No Easy Decision": MTV Takes On Abortion, Winter 2011, Cafe
Karen Ethelsdattar
--Poetry: Reliving the Nuclear Nightmare, Spring 2011, Cafe
Judith Avory Faucette
--Ending Wartime Rape Means Ending War and Patriarchy, Summer 2011, Cafe
Susan Faludi
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What is Terror for Women? Fall 2008
Ann Farmer
-- Video: An Iconic dancer on Her Toes After 50 Years, Winter 2011, Cafe
--Car Repair is Women's Work, Summer 2010
Gloria Feldt
-- Convictions to Action: Lessons From Margaret Sanger, Winter 2010
-- To Run the World, Power Up Feminism, Spring 2009
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A Do-Over for Reproductive Justice,Winter 2009, Cafe
Susan Feiner
--Gender Values: The Costs of War, Summer 2011
--How To Think Like a Feminist Economist, Spring 2010
Simon Fisher
--Taking Multimedia Action to Stop HIV-AIDS in Youth, Spring 2009, Cafe
Sonia Pressman Fuentes
-- Judging Our Future: Supreme Women Move Up, Winter 2011, Cafe
-- Advancing Rights: 1964 Marks the Beginning of a New Era, Summer 2010, Cafe
Sussan G. with Carol Downer
-- Iranian Women Mark 30 Years of Struggle to Reclaim Our Lives, Winter 2009, Special
Carolyn Gage
--Echoing at "Occupy": The Women Behind Social Security, Fall 2011 Cafe
-- The Ladies' Room: A Complicated Conversation, Summer 2009
--The War I Know, Sidelined, A to Z, Fall 2008, Cafe
Anne Galisky
--Filming Against Odds: Undocumented Youth “Come Out" With Their Dreams, Fall 2011
Serena Garcia
--Wise Words Cause Fearful Notions, Fall 2009, Café
Irasema Garza
--Second Bill of Rights: Economic Security, Spring 2009
Nancy Genova
-- The Death of a Dream: Layers of Domestic Violence, Summer 2009, Café
--Saving the Next Generation, May 2008
Helen Gilbert
-- Dangerous Con: How the Right-Wing Attracts Women, Winter 2011, Cafe
--Disappearing the Word "Rape," Winter 2011, Cafe
--A Radical Look at the Question of Equality, Summer 2010, Cafe
Stephanie Gilmore
--Marcha de las Putas: SlutWalking Crosses Global Divides, Fall 2011
-- with Sarah Barr, Listening Up: Students Blow the Whistle on Sexual Violence on Campus, Spring 2010
--Students Draw the Line on Sexual Violence, Spring 2009, Cafe
Molly M. Ginty
-- A Miracle of Networking and Spunk: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
--Swamped: Trying to Save Fragile Bodies, Spring 2011
-- Peggy M. Shepard, Setting the Bar for Environmental Justice, Spring 2009
-- In the US, AIDS Spreads Rapid-Fire and Crosses the Gender Divide, May 2008
Barbara J. Gislason
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An Animal Lawyer Makes a Manifesto, Winter 2009
Arlene Goldbard
--Three Habits of the Heart and Mind To Spark Cultural Awakening, Spring 2010
Jan Goodwin
--Honor Killings and Human Bombs, Abuses Old and New, Fall 2008
Mary Lou Greenberg
--Haven Volunteers: An Immediate Impact on Abortion Care, Fall 2011 Cafe
-- Beyond Equality to Liberation, Summer 2010
-- On The Frontlines: A Counselor Must Address a Gauntlet of Lies, Spring 2010
-- Facing Down Danger to Make Reproductive Freedom a Reality, Winter 2010
-- Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti, Winter 2010
-- It All Started With Adam and Eve, Summer 2009
-- Women Still at the Hoops, But Parity Scores Low, Summer 2009, Cafe
-- Related Articles: New Year's Revolutions Women Need, Winter 2009
-- What is Terror for Women: A Hot Topic In Our Archives, Fall 2008
-- Sex Work and Prostitution--Beholders See Different Issues in Past Stories, Summer 2008
-- When Revolution in China Elevated Women and Took Prostitution Off the Market, Summer 2008, Cafe
--Iranian Women Today – Fighting Two Enemies, Spring 2008
-- Break the Silence, End the Stigma, May 2008
-- Media Missteps + Misogyny = Death for Women, May 2008, Cafe
Alexis Greene
--Women in Tyvek: Hope in Nontraditional Green Jobs, Spring 2011, Cafe
-- Of Hallie Flanagan and Women Who Won't Be Silent, Winter 2011, Cafe
-- Theatre Arts; A Menace to Society – Bill Baird, Winter 2009
-- Theatre Arts; Whatever Happened to Nora? Fall 2008
-- Theatre Arts; “In the Continuum" Tells Women’s Missing HIV Stories, May 2008
-- Theatre Arts; “Ruined" by Lynne Nottage Links War, Horror and Prostitution, Summer 2008
Catherine Gropper
--For the Birds: My Personal Eco Activism, Spring 2011, Cafe
Melissa Sontag Brudo and Rachel Grinstein
--Stop Murder and Violence Against Sex Workers, Winter 2011, Cafe
Suzanne Grossman
--Tips on Making a Career Out of Feminist Work, Spring 2010, Cafe
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
--Taking A Stand Against Ageism at All Ages: A Powerful Coalition, Fall 2011
Sarah Hackley
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The Plight of Pregnancy, Maternal Mortality in Developing Nations, Spring 2009, Cafe
Ida Hammer
--Trans Violence Is Violence Against Women, Fall 2011 Cafe
Carol Hanisch
-- Women's Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Winter 2011
--Women's Liberation Consciousness-Raising: Then and Now, Spring 2010
Betsy Hartmann
--The New Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go, Fall 2009
Janis Hashe
--The Dickflick Defined, Summer 2009, Cafe
Mahin Hassibi
-- Busting Bogus Biology and Beliefs, Summer 2009
-- Ending the Male Patina in Biology, Winter 2009
-- Book Review; Whose Utopia? Winter 2009, Cafe
-- Terror for Women Exists Throughout History, Across Cultures, Fall 2008
-- Let’s Change the Equation on Sex and Earning, Summer 2008, Cafe
--Talking Shop in the Medical Field: the Unfolding of a Strange New Disease, May 2008, Cafe
Lindsey Hennawi
-- Our Little Light: Letter From A Young Activist, Fall 2011
Steph Herold
--Honoring Our Legacy: Founding IAmDrTiller.com, Summer 2010, Cafe
Thea Hillman
--Intersex, or What's In a Name? Everything, Summer 2009
Adrien Hilton
--Lessons from Redstockings: A Movement Goes for What It Wants, Spring 2009, Cafe
Rhea Hirshman
--On The Subway With Tillie, Spring 2010, Cafe
Shere Hite
--Female Orgasm Today, the Hite Report’s Research Then and Now, Summer 2008
Merle Hoffman
-- Patient Power – The Reluctant Revolution, Fall 2011
-- All Wars Are Intimate Wars, Summer 2011
-- Questioning the "hard" in hard data: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
-- Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary: A Time for Celebration – and Commitment, Winter 2011 Cafe
-- Feminism Is As Feminism Does, Winter 2011
-- The Courage of No, Winter 2010
-- Selecting the Same Sex, Summer 2009
-- Higher Ground, Not Common Ground, Spring 2009
-- On the Murder and Continuing Inspiration of Dr. George Tiller, Spring 2009
-- Revolution Lite, Winter 2009
-- Sarah Palin and the Apocalypse, Fall 2008
-- Divide, Conquer and Sell, Summer 2008
--A Message from the Publisher, Spring 2008
-- Plus ca Change, May 2008
Maame-Mensima Horne
-- Equality for Women: Insights From My Grandfather, Spring 2010
-- Black Abortion: Breaking the Silence, Fall 2009, Café
Christine E. Hutchins
-- Reigniting Black Feminist Power, Fall 2009
-- In a Word: The True History of “Misogyny,” Summer 2009, Cafe
--Book Review; Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves, Spring 2009
-- Book Review; The Reproductive Rights Reader: Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood, Spring 2009
Edna Adan Ismail
--The Terror of Motherhood in Somaliland and Women’s Rights to Safe Care, Fall 2008
Nicole Itano
-- Time to Rethink Global HIV/AIDS Care, May 2008, Cafe
Susan Jacoby
--
Wanted: A Revolution in Critical Thinking, Winter 2009
Sir Jesse of Decatur
--Southern Reproductive Justice and Trans Alliance, Summer 2009, Cafe
Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer
--American Taliban: Sect Controls Women's Destinies, Summer 2009
Ileana Jiménez
--Teaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action, Fall 2011
Ms. Michael angel Johnson
--Fiction: A Basket of Biscuits, Fall 2011
--The African American Woman Who Shaped the Future of Art, Fall 2009, Cafe
Ann Jordan
--
Nothing About Us, Without Us, Summer 2008
Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper
--The Terror and Error of Sarah Palin, Fall 2008, Cafe
Barbara Kahn
--Women in the Arts: How They Can Change Your Life, Summer 2009, Cafe
Esther Kaplan, Kathryn Joyce, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper
--The Terror and Error of Sarah Palin, Fall 2008, Cafe
Margie Kelly
--Message in BPA Baby Bottles: Don't Mess with Moms, Spring 2011
Cameron Kelsall
--Book Review; A Human finds Robot Love: New Jeanette Winterson Book, Summer 2009
Glynnis King
--With Elizabeth Koke, Book Corner: Feminist Press Picks Five Top Activist Reads, Fall 2011
Frances Kissling
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Beyond Politics and One God, Winter 2009
Elizabeth Koke
-- With Glynnis King, Book Corner: Feminist Press Picks Five Top Activist Reads, Fall 2011
Gabrielle Korn
--Engaged Activism: Two Women Challenge Global Sex Trafficking, Fall 2011
--Speak Out: Sharing Passions, Tips, Techniques, Fall 2011
-- Top Ten: Three Years of Stories That Grabbed Readers, Summer 2011
-- Fighting to Fight: Questioning the Battle of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", Summer 2011, Cafe
Myra Kovary
--Unprecedented Recognition for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Winter 2009, Cafe
Georgia Kral
-- Female Music Critics Transcend Fan Culture,
Summer 2010 Cafe
-- Indie Music Groups Share Sex Positivity, Spring 2010 Cafe
-- Virtual Switching, or Playing Games, Summer 2009
Gail Kriegel
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Anabella: Guatemalan Leader Deploys Stilettos Against Corruption, Winter 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi
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From the Archives: the Words of Aung San Suu Kyi, Winter 2011, Cafe
Susan Lehman
--Strong Families Love Unconditionally, Spring 2011, Cafe
Josie Lehrer
--Healthy Masculinities: A Pro Human Endeavor, Summer 2009, Café
Carol Leigh
--On the Frontline of Sex Wars, Summer 2008
Jana Leo
-- Rape New York, Fall 2008
Tobe Levin
--African FGM Author Finds Herself Called to Activism, Fall 2011 Cafe
--UnCUT/VOICES: Unequivocally Against Female Genital Mutilation, Fall 2010, Cafe
Dulcey Lewis
--Not Waiting for Rapture: The Lesbian Avengers March In, Fall 2011 Cafe
Chris Lombardi
--Paradoxes of Women in Uniform Take Deep Listening, Summer 2011
Fran Luck
--Sharing the Joy of Resistance Through Radio, Spring 2010
Jeannie Ludlow
--Feeding Minds Feminism: Women's Studies, Spring 2010, Cafe
Heather MacGibbon
--Media Review; How Media Portrayals Affect Women Seeking Abortions, Summer 2009
-- Third Wave Video Art: Sarcastic and Serious, Summer 2009, Cafe
Jennifer S. Macleod
--Equal Rights Amendment Still Brings Out Ranters, Spring 2009
Jodi Magee
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MDs Tell HHS: High-Risk Patients Need Abortion Coverage, Summer 2010, Cafe
Swapna Majumdar
--Watershed Women: Self Help in India, Spring 2011, Cafe
Tara Malik and rebecca s.a. connie
--Youth Videos Push Back Gender Violence, Winter 2009, Cafe
Mehret Mandefro
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Once The Silence Has Been Broken, May 2008, Cafe
Amanda Marcotte
-- Getting Over the Online v Offline Debate, Fall 2011
--Abortion as Right's Multipurpose Scare Word, Winter 2011
Emily May
--Gender Harassment: From Our Revolution to Yours, Winter 2009, Cafe
Laurie Mazur
-- Population and Environment: a Progressive, Feminist Approach, Fall 2009, Cafe
Pam McAllister
--Finding Hope: Reweaving -- Then and Now, Summer 2011
Lauren Guy McAlpin
-- "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" Are Threats to Reproductive Justice, Winter 2009, Cafe
Maureen McNeil
--Practicing Freedom: An Enduring Model in Anne Frank, Spring 2010
Karen Jones Meadows
-- Harriet’s Voice: A Writer and Her Inhabitation, Winter 2010
Cassandra Medley
--Theatre Arts: “Daughter," The New Face of War, Fall 2008
Tanya Melich
--Next Chapter in the 'Republican War Against Women,' Winter 2011
Myriam Miedzian
--Reducing Violence by Educating for Empathy, Spring 2010, Cafe
Margot Mifflin
--Teaching Daughters About Lollipop Politics, Spring 2009
Hannah Miller
--Finding the Power in Women’s Voices, Winter 2009, Cafe
Kate Millett
-- Gaining Control, Fall 2008
Tawanda Mudzonga
--Terror in Our Homes, Violence Against Women in Zimbabwe, Fall 2008, Cafe
Inga Muscio
-- Love and Creative Genius: A Feminist's Most Potent Weapons, Winter 2011, Cafe
Jen Nedeau
--Healthcare Compromise: Low Income Women Get Bumped, Fall 2009, Café
Dr. Terry Neese
--Afghan and Rwandan Women Entrepreneurs Seek Peace through Business, Summer 2011, Cafe
Victoria Neilson
--Asylum Pitfalls May Await the Transgender Applicant, Summer 2009
Beverly Neufeld
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Best City for Working Women: In Our Checkbooks, Summer 2010
Theresa Noll
--Extraordinary spirit alive in new activists: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
--Moving the Silence: Rachel Carson’s Groundbreaking Work, Spring 2011
-- The Sexual Politics of Meat Revisited, Winter 2011
--Gloria Feldt's "No Excuses" and Ways for Women to Think About Power, Summer 2010, Cafe
Judy Norsigian
-- The complexity of human relationships: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
Karen Offen
--
Feminist, Feminisme, Feministe?: Anti-Patriarchy Is the Key, Winter 2011, Cafe
Cate Owren
--Women's Rights, Human Rights and Climate Change, Spring 2011, Cafe
Sonio Ossario
--Stop the Traffick, Stiffening State Laws Helps Trapped Women, Summer 2008
Laura Palmer and Carolyn Jessop
--American Taliban: Sect Controls Women's Destinies, Summer 2009
Cindy Pearson
-- It's taken me three years: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Spring 2011
Eesha Pandit
-- The First of All Liberties: Making Health Care Meet All Women’s Needs, Fall 2009
Jacqui Patterson
-- Gulf Oil Drilling Disaster: Gendered Layers of Impact, Spring 2011
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Natural Disasters, Climate Change Uproot Women of Color, Fall 2009
Sarah Elspeth Patterson
--Education as Action: Supporting the Sexual Health of Sex Workers, Fall 2011 Cafe
Thaler Pekar
--Stories Matter: How to Power Up Your Activism, Fall 2011
Suzanne Pharr
-- Stimulating Social Change: Then and Now, Fall 2009
Caroline Picker
--Controlling Women: Reasons to Worry About the Scott Sisters, Winter 2011, Cafe
Mary E. Plouffe
--
From Suffragists to Sarah Palin: Bring Back Competance, Winter 2011, Cafe
Angela Poh
-- Book Reveals Difficulties of Traditional Chinese Gender Roles, Fall 2009, Café
Jennifer L. Pozner
-- Reality TV (Re)Writes Gender Roles, Winter 2011
--Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It, Spring 2010
Carolyn Raffensperger
--My Body, the Earth: The Earth, My Body, Spring 2011, Cafe
--Acting As If Future Generations Matter, Spring 2011
Norma Ramos
--“It’s Not TV, It’s Sexploitation" Protest Against Home Box Office, Summer 2008
Meghan Rhoad
--Holding the Line, Defending Feminist Values in Immigration Enforcement, Spring 2009, Cafe
Jane Roberts
--Putting Together Pieces of Sex Work, Gender Inequality, Deadly Consequences, Summer 2008, Cafe
Loretta J. Ross
-- Saying No in Mississippi: No to Personhood, No to Voter Restrictions, Fall 2011 Cafe
-- Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women, Winter 2011
-- A Feminist Vision: No Justice-No Equity, Summer 2010
-- Birthers and Birchers: Hiding Behind the Stars and Stripes, Fall 2009
-- Repeal Hyde: Even Republicans Know It's Wrong to Politick With Women's Lives, Spring 2009, Cafe
-- Mobilizing for Reproductive Justice, Spring 2009
-- "Rejected Letters"; Women of Color Need Human Rights, Not “Common Ground", Winter 2009
-- Re-enslaving African American Women, Fall 2008, Cafe
Melissa Nalani Ross
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Anti-Immigrant Fervor Translates to Terror for Women, Fall 2008
Larissa Ruoff
--Clean Up: Shareholder Activism Pushes Companies, Spring 2011, Cafe
Lise Saffran
--Infrastructure: Fiction Techniques and Shaping Public Health, Spring 2011, Cafe
Graciela Sanchez
-- Mujeres Take Back the Culture with Old Photos, Fall 2009
Autumn Sandeen
--Good News for Trans Veterans: New VA Health Care Guidelines, Summer 2011, Cafe
Penelope Saunders
--How you dress shouldn’t be cause for arrest, Summer 2008, Cafe
Deborah Savadge
--Broadway Has A Long Way to Go, Baby, Summer
2010, Cafe
Donna Schaper
-- Taking Seminaries Out of the Box, Spring 2010, Cafe
-- Rolling with the Roles, Summer 2009, Cafe
-- Shaping Sexual Futures On a Budget, Spring 2009
--Populism Needed to Shovel Out the Old Economy, Winter 2009, Cafe
Abby Scher
--Not-so-New Right Wing Women, Winter 2011
Marianne Schnall
--Webs of Connection: Trees, Women, Activism, Spring 2011, Cafe
Larry Schulte
--Art Still Vital to AIDS Activism, May 2008, Cafe
Rinku Sen
-- Taking on Postracialism, Fall 2009
Laura A. Shamas
--Understanding the Myth: Why Cassandra Must Not be Silenced, Summer 2011, Cafe
Marie Shear
--"Little Marie": The Daily Toll of Sexist Language, Summer 2010
Galen Sherwin
--New Yorkers Need to Upgrade Abortion Laws, Spring 2009, Cafe
Marjorie Signer
--Military Women: Unfair Denial of Abortion Access Needs to End, Summer 2011, Cafe
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Global Gag Rule Poses Moral Challenge for US HIV/AIDS Funding, May 2008, Cafe
Jeanmarie Simpson
--Jeannette Rankin, Suffragist and Pacifist: She Speaks For Me, Summer 2011, Cafe
Sir Jesse of Decatur
-- Southern Reproductive Justice and Trans Alliance, Summer 2009, Cafe
Andrea Smith
--To Stop Gender Violence, Start Changing the Tune, Fall 2009
Jessica T. Solomon
--Tapping Our Creative Selves for Social Change, Winter 2009, Cafe
Nicole Witte Solomon
--Erotic Laborers Find Outlet in Spread, Summer 2008, Cafe
Ellen Snortland
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The Water We Swim In, Rescuing Ourselves, Fall 2008, Cafe
Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson
--High Rates of HIV and STDs Show the US is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights, May 2008, Cafe
Annie Sprinkle
--Stopping the Terror, A Day to End Violence Against Prostitutes, Fall 2008, Cafe
Linda Stein
-- The Art Perspective: Guerrilla Girls, Fall 2011
--Pushing Back Attacks on Artistic Freedom, Summer 2011, Cafe
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