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Complete Table of Contents
By Categories
Abortion Providers, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Politics, Pro-Choice, Clinic Violence
Nowhere to Hide: Everyday Warrior Patricia Baird-Windle, Eleanor Bader, Winter 1999, clinic violence
27 Years, But Who's Counting?, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1998, Roe v Wade, feminist medical centers, partial birth abortions, AMA, illegal abortions
The Fire This Time: When "Pro-Life" Means Death, Mary Lou Greenberg, Summer 1998, clinic violence, Emily Lyons
The Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War by Jim Risen and Judy Thomas, reviewed by Patricia Baird-Windle, Spring 1998, clinic violence
Atlanta: Women and Choice Under Attack, Mary Lou Greenberg, Summer 1997, clinic attacks, clinic violence, anti-abortion violence
Fatal Denial? The Tragic Case of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1997, neonaticide, infanticide, unwanted pregnancy, Roe v Wade
Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics by Laura M Purdy, reviewed by Robin Bromley, Spring 1997
Refocusing Choice, Rosemary Bray, Spring 1997
Trojan Horses: The Morality of Abortion, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1996, Norman McCorvey, Jane Roe, Naomi Wolf, Hyde Amendment, WEBA, women Exploited by Abortion, Sarah Weddington, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Kate Michelman
Special Section - Loving Babies, Hating Women: The International Conspiracy Against Abortion Rights, Fall 1996
Nepal: Prisoners of Biology, Jan Goodwin, Fall 1996, anti-abortion laws
The Anti-Abortion Stealth Campaign, Jennifer Gonnerman, Fall 1996, Human Life International, Operation Rescue
Our Clinics, Ourselves: Defending Providers Is Up To Us, Mary Lou Greenberg, Summer 1996, clinic violence, clinic defense
Heroism: Theory and Practice, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1995, clinic violence, Dr John Britton, Paul Hill, Dr. David Gunn, Dr. George Tiller, Rescue America, wonder woman, Al Gore
Confronting the Anti-Abortionists in Pensacola, Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 1995
For Two Women Shot to Death in Brookline, Massachusetts, Marge Piercy, Summer 1995, clinic violence, Leanne Nichols, Shannon Lowney
Abortion Providers: the New "Communists"?, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1995, clinic violence, Randall Terry, clinic defense, Conference of Catholic Bishops, Right to Life Committee, Pat Buchanan
Poland's Morning After, Peggy Simpson, Spring 1995
Fear, Fortitude and the FBI, Ronni Sandroff, Winter 1994, clinic violence
Counterfeit Clinics, Genuine Pain, Phoney Abortion Clinics, Neil deMause, Winter 1994
Birth Control Pills Without Prescription, Maxine Lipner, Winter 1994
High Noon in Moscow, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1994, Russian women, birth control in Russia, abortion in Russia
Praise the Lord and Kill the Doctor, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1994, clinic violence, Dr David Gunn, Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority, Dr. George Tiller, Dallas Blanchard, FACE Bill
A Simple Human Right, the History of Black Women and Abortion, Loretta J. Ross, Spring 1994
Every Child a Wanted Child, A Conversation with Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Elaine Clift, Spring 1994
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Shoot 'Em, the Murder of Dr. David Gunn, Neil deMause, Fall 1993
The Abortion Issue, There is No Choice Without Providers, Norine Dworkin, Fall 1993
Clinics Under the Gun, Blockades, Firebombs, Murder, A Firsthand Report, Mary Lou Greenberg, Fall 1993
Sex After the Fall, Starting a birth control Revolution in Russia, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1993, Russian women, birth control, fall of communism, abortions in Russia, women's health care in Russia
Choices: The Road Not Taken, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1992, pregnancy, abortion restrictions, illegal abortion, abortion procedure
Isn't It Enough to Make You Scream?, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1991, contraception, Gag Rule, reproductive health, Title X, Medicaid, RU486, Rust v Sullivan, Henry Hyde
Critiques of the New Contraceptives: After Norplant, What's Next? Jill Benderly, RU Angry? Rhona Mahoney, RU Sure? Jill Benderly, Summer 1991
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Can Also Rock the Boat, How Prochoice Activists Turned Around the Dayton Foundation, Irene Davall, Spring 1991
A Dialogue With Eli Wiesel on Abortion, Love, and the Holocaust, with Merle Hoffman, Spring 1991, Nazis, Catholic church, Bruno Bettleheim, Primo Levi, Israel, Palestinians, antisemitism
Which Way After Webster? Irene Davall, Winter 1990, rural counties, abortion availability
Another American Tragedy, The Death of Becky Bell, Interview with Bill and Karen Bell, Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 1990, parental notification laws, teenage abortion
The Chilling of Reproductive Choice, Janice Raymond, Vol 14 Spring 1990, reproductive technologies
Margaret Sanger, Militant, Pragmatist, Visionary, Lawrence Lader, Vol 14 Spring 1990
Margaret Sanger, An Alternate View, Jill Benderly, Vol 14 Spring 1990, population control
Saving Choice, Youth Organizes to Oppose Parental Consent and Notification, Vol 14 Spring 1990
More Than A Woman's Issue, Merle Hoffman, Vol 13, 1989, Roe V Wade, clinic defense, Medicaid, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Operation Rescue, Tikkun
Abortion - The "Issue", Merle Hoffman, Vol 12, 1989, Henry Hyde, terrorism, Operation Rescue, clinic blockades, St. Patrick's Cathedral, civil disobedience
American Fantasies, Merle Hoffman,Vol 11, 1989, Ronald Reagan, Barbara Bush, traditional family, right wing
Where are the Troops?, Merle Hoffman, Vol 10, 1988, clinic defense, Operation Rescue, clinic blockades, Simone deBeauvoir, Betty Friedan, Joseph Scheidler
The Unfinished Mandate: Addressing the Issue of Infertility, Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, Vol 9 1988
Abortion and the Monk's Mistress, Irene Davall, Vol 7 1987, abortion history
Quiet Heroines, Merle Hoffman, Vol 6, 1986, clinic violence, abortion speakouts, personal is political
Abortion's Silent Constituency, Merle Hoffman, Vol 4, Summer, Fall 1984, evangelical movement, right-to-life, Feminists for Life, clinic defense, clinic violence
Politicized by Henry Hyde, Merle Hoffman, Vol 1, Fall 1983, Medicaid, Choices Women's Medical Center
Animal Rights, Animal Liberation
The Cultural Politics of Fur by Julia V. Emberley, reviewed by Carol J Adams, Spring 1998
Animals Escaping Domestic Violence, Patricia A. Murphy, Fall 1997
An Artist Takes Stock, Sue Coe, Summer 1996, slaughterhouses, meat farms
Transspecies Transplants: Home-Grown Atrocities, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1995, xenotransplantation, organ transplants, organ donors
Do Feminists Need to Liberate Animals Too?, Interview with Carol Adams, Spring 1995, stewardship of the earth
Violence in the Ivory Tower, Aggression Studies on Animals, Betsy Swart, Winter 1991, animal experimentation
On the 8th Day We Created - What? Rita Robinson, Fall 1991, animal experimentation
Animal Experimentation - A Woman Physician Stands Alone, Marjorie Cramer, M.D., Summer 1991
Women and Dogs, E.M. Broner, Spring 1991
On Speciesist Language, Joan Dunayer, Winter 1990
Innocent Casualties in the War on Drugs, Betsy Swart, Winter 1990
Compassion and Consistency, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1990, vivisection, Nat Hentoff, Pavlov, vegetarianism
Metaphors of Nature: Vivisection and Pornography – The Manichean Machine, Roberta Kalechofsky, Vol 9 1988
"Into Your Hands Are They Delivered", A Meditation on Animal Rights and Women's Rights, Julia Piggin, Vol 7, 1987
Art and Culture
Books, Book Reviews
May Sarton: A Biography by Margot Peters, reviewed by Elizabeth Millard, Winter 1999
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, by Ron Rosenbaum, reviewed by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Winter 1999
New Twists to Old Tales, feminist children's books reviewed by Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 1999
Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West, reviewed by Carolyn Gage, Winter 1998
The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick, excerpts and review by Mahin Hassibi, MD, Winter 1998
Who's Afraid of Feminism? Seeing through the Backlash, Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell eds, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, Winter 1998
The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World by Charlene Spretnak, reviewed by Mahin Hassibi, Fall 1998
Quintessence Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto by Mary Daly, reviewed by Elizabeth Millard, Fall 1998
A New Kind of Party Animal: How the Young Are Tearing Up the American Political Landscape by Michelle Mitchell, reviewed by Jennifer Nix, Fall 1998
The Cultural Politics of Fur by Julia V Emberley, reviewed by Carol J Adams, Spring 1998
The Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War by Jim Risen and Judy Thomas, reviewed by Patricia Baird-Windle, Spring 1998
The Feminist Dollar: The Wise Woman's Buying Guide by Phyllis and Margaret Katz, reviewed by Lisa Vicenti, Spring 1998
What Women Want by Patricia Ireland, reviewed by Carolyn G Heilbrun, Winter 1997
Beyond the Halsted Radical, books on breast cancer reviewed by Barbara Seaman, Fall 1997
The Rise and Fall of Gay Subculture by Daniel Harris, reviewed by Jaclyn Geller, Fall 1997
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk, reviewed by Margaret R Saraco, Fall 1997
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present by Mimi Abramovitz, reviewed by Rita Henley Jensen, Summer 1997
The Feminine Economy & Economic Manby Shirley P Burggraf, reviewed by Rita Henley Jensen, Summer 1997
The Media Mirror Has No Face, reviews of
Real Majority, Media Minority: the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting by Laura Flanders,
Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News by Caryl Rivers, and
News Coverage of Violence Against Women by Marian Myers, reviewed by Louise Armstrong, Summer 1997
Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World by Anne Roiphe, reviewed by Robin Bromley, Spring 1997
Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics by Laura M Purdy, reviewed by Robin Bromley, Spring 1997
Eyes Right! Chip Berlet ed, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, Fall 1996
The Power of Beauty by Nancy Friday, reviewed by Lynn Wenzel, Fall 1996
Push by Sapphire, reviewed by Sally Owen, Fall 1996
Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, reviewed by Sally Owen, Fall 1996
The Republican War Against Women by Tanya Melich, interview by Julia Kagan, Summer 1996
A Woman Scorned by Peggy Reeves Sanday, reviewed by Lorraine Dusky, Summer 1996
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol, reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 1996
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid, reviewed by Sally Owen, Spring 1996
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray, reviewed by Eleanor J Bader, Spring 1996
Stephen King, Psychological Crossdresser, Fall 1995
George Sand at Nohant, Erica Abeel, Summer 1995
You Can Go Home Again, Interview with Writer Melissa Fay Greene, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 1992
Torturing Women as Fine Art: Why Some Women and Men are Boycotting Knopf, Robert Brannon, Why Boycotting Booksellers is a Bad Idea, Marjorie Heins, Fall 1991, violent pornography
FILM, STAGE, TV
The Women of Henry James, Molly Haskell, Winter 1998, Washington Square, Wings of the Dove
Fountain of Youth: For Men Only, Molly Haskell, Fall 1998, Bullworth, The Horse Whisperer, Hope Floats, Under the Skin
Brave New Girls, Debbie Stoller, Fall 1998, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Memories of Seduction, Marilyn Stasio, Fall 1998
To Be Male or Female, That is the Question, Marilyn Stasio, Summer 1998, Gender-bending, Shakespeare
The Womanly Art of Payback: First Wives Club and Girls Town, Kathy Maio, Winter 1997
Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Gay Icon?, Carolyn Gage, Winter 1997
Meeting the Ghost of Hamlet's Father, Carolyn Gage, Fall 1997
Get Reel! Feminists Refocus Film, Molly Haskell, Summer 1997
The Mirror Has Two Faces, Kathy Maio, Spring 1997
Tara and Other Lies, Margaret Michell and the real Rhett Butler, Carolyn Gage, Spring 1997
Bad Girls: Moll Flanders and Striptease, Kathy Maio, Fall 1996
Antonia, Anne and Oscar, Kathy Maio, Summer 1996
Rain Without Thunder, John Stoltenberg, Spring 1996
How to Make An American Quilt, Linda Krauss, Spring 1996
The World According to Soaps, Elaine Rapping, Fall 1995
Why Roseanne Rivets Us, Elaine Rapping, Fall 1994
Is The Piano A Feminist Film? "Yes" by Rebecco Shugrue, "No" by Carolyn Gage, Summer 1994
A Body of Stories, Dance Theater, Healing, and Empowerment-A Review, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Fall 1993
Oscar "Honors" Women? Elaine Rapping, Fall 1993
Reel Feminism vs. Real Feminism, Feminist Film in the '90s, Leora Tanenbaum, Winter 1992
Fear and Loathing Deconstructed, An Essay on Gloria Steinem's Revolution From Within, Naomi Wolf, Fall 1992
VISUAL ARTS
ARTRAGEUS: Fighting Breast Cancer through Art, Winter 1999
Gaining Face: The Art of Judy Schavrien, Jennifer Kay Hood, Winter 1998
Luisa Vidal: Painted Like a Man, Disappeared Like a Woman, Marcy Rudo, Summer 1998, Modernism
Infant Mortality in America, Michelle McDonald, Spring 1998
Nothing Still About Life, paintings by Julie Heffernan, Winter 1997
The Matriarch Project,Suzanne Fiol, Fall 1997, motherhood
I Am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women in Their Own Words, Dana Carpenter and Woody Winfree, Spring 1997, beauty, body-image, older women
The In-Your-Face Art of Anke Feuchtenberger, Christine Baumann, Winter 1996
Like Mother, Like Daughter, photographs by Stephanie Welsh, Fall 1996, body-image
An Artist Takes Stock, Sue Coe, Summer 1996, slaughterhouses, meat farms
Unfurling a Maestrapeace, A Monumental Mural in San Francisco, Diana Scott, Winter 1995
Florine Stettheimer, Subversive Artist, Arlene Raven, Fall 1995
You Saw It Here First, the art of breast-cancer survivor Matuschka, Winter 1994
Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Art, Arlene Raven, Fall 1994
Judy Chicago: The Artist Critics Love to Hate, Arlene Raven, Summer 1994
It's Not Easy Being Bad, the Bad Girls Art Show, Suzanne Messing, Summer 1994
Got to Get This Off My Chest, An Artist Explores the Beauty of Her One-Breasted Self, Matuschka, Winter 1992
Living Without Choices, Photo Essay by Helen M. Stummer, Winter 1990
I Dream A World, Portraits of 75 Women Who Changed America, Interview with Photographer Brian Lanker, Eleanor J. Bader, Vol 14 Spring 1990
MUSIC, POETRY
The Sound of Women in Music, Albert Innaurato, Winter 1999
Maria Callas: THE OPERA, Phyllis Chesler, Winter 1999
Poetry Redux, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1998, Walt Whitman, Slyvia Plath, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martin Heidegger
Thou shalt not complain about anything I might have to fix, Marge Piercy, Summer 1997
Where Feminism Rocks, Margaret R. Saraco, Spring 1996, riot grrrls, reggae, political music
Not Just Another Man on a Horse, Arlene Raven, Spring 1996, public art
For Two Women Shot to Death in Brookline, Massachusetts, Marge Piercy, Summer 1995
Desperately Seeking Madonna, the Feminist, bell hooks, Spring 1993
Economics, Poverty, Welfare
The Feminist Dollar: The Wise Woman's Buying Guide by Phyllis and Margaret Katz, reviewed by Lisa Vicenti, Spring 1998.
Collective Entrepreneurship, Marlene C. Piturro, Spring 1997
Is Every Woman One Divorce Away from Financial Disaster?, Phyllis Chesler, Winter 1997
The Welfare Bill is Our Bosnia: An Interview with Elizabeth Holtzman by Rosemary L Bray, Fall 1997
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present by Mimi Abramovitz, reviewed by Rita Henley Jensen, Summer 1997
The Feminine Economy & Economic Man by Shirley P Burggraf, reviewed by Rita Henley Jensen, Summer 1997
Hazel Henderson's Better Bottom Line, Barbara Stahura, Fall 1996
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol, reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 1996
Safety Net Performs Vanishing Act, Lynn Phillips, Fall 1994, welfare reform
Born-Again Consumers, Lillian Africano, Summer 1994
H.O.M.E., One Woman's Approach to Society's Problems, Helen M. Stummer, Summer 1990, homelessness, disenfranchisement
Environment, Ecology, Green Movement
Genesis II, Lynn Wenzel, Winter 1998, ecofeminism, land reclamation
Greenpeace Warrior: Sailing to Tahiti to Stop the Bomb, Gillian Murphy, Summer 1996
Food Irradiation: Zap It! Elayne Clift, Fall 1991
A Conversation with Earth First! Activist Judi Bari, Christine Keyser, Summer 1991
Population Control – Out of Control? Eleanor J. Bader, Spring 1991
Environmental Action, Time is Running Out, Interview with Ruth Caplan of Environmental Action, Eleanor J. Bader, Winter 1990
The Greening of the World: Interview with Petra Kelly, Founder of the West German Green Party and Anti-Nuclear Activist, by Merle Hoffman, Vol 9, 1988
Hysterical Housewives (And Other Courageous Women), Karen Jan Stults, Vol 13 1989, grassroots organizers, toxic wastes
Feminism, Feminist Issues, Women's Equality
Who's Afraid of Feminism? Seeing through the Backlash, Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell eds, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, Winter 1998
My Body, My Choice, My Consent, Eileen McDonagh, Winter 1998, sex, contraception
What's A Feminist To Do?, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1998, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, marriage
Letter to a Young Feminist, Phyllis Chesler, Spring 1998, women's independence
Letter to an Older Feminist, Sandra Balaban, Spring 1998, mentoring
Facing the Dragon: Reflections on Female Heroism, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1997, Joan of Arc, Mt Everest, Alison Hargreaves, Carol S. Pearson, Hillary Clinton
What Women Want by Patricia Ireland, reviewed by Carolyn G Heilbrun, Winter 1997
Is Equality Indigenous? Iroquois Influence on Feminism, Sally Roesch Wagner, Winter 1996
Beijing World Conference on Women
Julie Mertus' Restaurant Parleys
Frances Kissling on Fundamentalism
Laura Flanders on the Media
Noeleen Heyzer on Agenda Setting
Ellen Snortland on the Chinese Peter Principle
Fed Up with the Diet Industry, Dawn and Mary E. Atkins, Winter 1996
Raising Sons as Allies, Paul Kivel, Summer 1996, anti-racist, anti-sexist childraising
Happiness and the Feminist Mind, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1996, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, Emma Goldman
Peak Experience, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1996, Erica Jong, Mt Everest, Nepalese feminists
The Power of Beauty by Nancy Friday, reviewed by Lynn Wenzel, Fall 1996
Orgasm Politics: Has It Hijacked the Women's Movement?, Shiela Jeffries, Spring 1996
The Big Chill, Marlene C. Piturro, Winter 1996, sex discriumination
Hillary Clinton & the Feminist Mystique, Elaine Rapping, Winter 1995
Telling it Like it Was, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1995, feminist foremothers
Nadine Strossen: the Pornography Industry's Wet Dream, Diana EH Russell, Summer 1995
Hair Daze: To Shave or Not to Shave, Olivia James, Spring 1995
The Mothers We Never Knew, Seneca Falls Women's Rights National Park, Lynn Phillips, Winter 1994
Unlearning Misogyny, John Stoltenberg, Winter 1994
OTI Dialogue: Congressman John Lewis and Andrea Dworkin - Towards a Revolution in Values, with Merle Hoffman, Fall 1994, civil rights, feminism, pacifism, violence, pornography
A Wolf in Feminist Clothing, The Latest in Rad-Fem Clothing, Phyllis Chesler, Spring 1994
She Just Doesn't Understand, the Feminist Face-Off on Pornography Legislation, Ellen Levy, Fall 1993
Communiques from the Front, Young Activists Chart Feminism's Third Wave, Bonnie Pfister, Summer 1993
What Women Can Learn from Malcolm X, Flo Kennedy and Irene Davall, Summer 1993
The Text Behind That Cover Girl Smile, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1993, body image, images of women, fashion, Princess Diana, Hillary Clinton
Stand-Up Feminism, The Subversive Power of Laughter, Norine Dworkin, Spring 1993
Young African-American Women Rap About Gender-Strong women, Independence and Inequality, Laurie Ouellette, Fall 1992
Building a Third Wave: Reflections of a Young Feminist, Laurie Ouellette, Fall 1992
Funny Feminism, a Teen Perspective, Amy Wu, Fall 1992
Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle - Feminism and Pornography, Norine Dworkin, Fall 1992
Fear and Loathing Deconstructed, An Essay on Gloria Steinem's Revolution From Within, Naomi Wolf, Fall 1992
First Ladies, Second Sex, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1992, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, Marilyn Quayle, AAUW, Anita Hill
Hunting Witches Then and Now, Summer 1992
"Bitch Witches and Hysterical Girls," Salem Witch Trials, Fred Pelka, Summer 1992
Blacklist, Black Days: Stalking the "Red Menace," Patricia Lynden, Summer 1992
Feminist Witchcraft in Today's World, Ann Forfreedom, Summer 1992
Thelma and Louise Live, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1991, rape, self defense, National Abortion Federation
Motherhood and Feminism, Feminist Writer Jane Lazarre, Eleanor Bader, Fall 1991
Is Being Female A Birth Defect?, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1991, Queen Elizabeth I, women's self-image, boy-girl ratios
"Out of the Caring Closet," Profile of Feminist Writer/Critic Suzanne Gordon, Eleanor Bader, Summer 1991
Population Control – Out of Control? Eleanor J. Bader, Spring 1991
The Politics of Violence, Charlotte Bunch, Fall 1990, militarism, sexism, racism, redracism, homophobia
Breaking Barriers, Women and Minorities in the Sciences, Interview with MIT President Paul E. Gray and Dean of Student Affairs Shirley M. McBay, Summer 1990
To Pee or Not to Pee, Sexism at Harvard, Irene Davall, Summer 1990
French Feminism and Jewish Identity, An Interview with Renee David, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Vol 14 Spring 1990
On the Trail of Jane the Fool, female jester in the court of Queen Mary I, Denise Selleck, Vol 14 Spring 1990
Two Faces of Motherhood, Merle Hoffman, Vol 8, 1987, surrogate motherhood, Mary Beth Whitehead, Baby M, Elizabeth Stern, organ transplants, reproductive technologies
The New Crusaders, Merle Hoffman, Vol 7, 1987, fashion, women's movement, Pauline Trigere, Gloria Steinem, Donna Karan
Breaking the Barriers, Interview with Kate Millet, Merle Hoffman, Vol 10 1988
The Making of a Radical Feminist, Interview with Andrea Dworkin, Merle Hoffman, Vol 9 1988
Metaphors of Nature: Vivisection and Pornography – The Manichean Machine, Roberta Kalechofsky, Vol 9 1988
Sex, Politics and Psychology, Ray Rakow, M.D., Vol 9 1988
The Crusade of Karen Thompson – An Interview, Merle Hoffman, Vol 7 1987
"Into Your Hands Are They Delivered", A Meditation on Animal Rights and Women's Rights, Julia Piggin, Vol 7, 1987
Health, Medicine
Replacing Prozac with Plato, Interview with Lou Marinoff, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1999, counseling, Socratic tradition, ethics, morality
Crazy in America, Bill Weiner, Winter 1999, mental illness
Stop the Pain, Penny Kome, Winter 1998, workplace injuries
Research for Your Life: Investigating Your Own Health Care, Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Spring 1998, cancer, alternative medicine, chemotherapy
The Bitter Pill, Leora Tanenbaum, Winter 1998, premarin, medical establishment, HRT
Beyond the Halsted Radical, books on breast cancer reviewed by Barbara Seaman, Fall 1997
The Mystery and Tragedy of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1997
WOMEN WHO TRUST TOO MUCH: What AIDS commercials don't tell you, Deborah Johnson, Summer 1996, AIDS
Breast Intentions: Enlightening Medical Students about Female Bodies, Jeannette Batz, Winter 1995
Natural Childbirth, Nicole Bokat, Winter 1995
Can Separate Be Equal in Women's Health?, Dr. Eileen M. Hoffman, Winter 1995
Why Change the World When You Can Have a Prozac Moment?, Mahin Hassibi, Summer 1995, depression, psychotherapy, psychiatry
Foal Play, Fall 1994, estrogen, HRT, premarin, menopause
Death Takes the Stage, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1994, Jack Kevorkian, right-to-die, death and dying
Isn't It Enough to Make You Scream?, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1991, contraception, Gag Rule, reproductive health
Medical E.R.A., Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, medical establishment, Roe v Wade
Love and Death on 86, Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, AIDS
Smoke Yourself Thin, Suzanne Levine, Summer 1994
Every Child a Wanted Child, A Conversation with Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Elaine Clift, Spring 1994
My Uterus, Myself, Elayne Clift, Spring 1994, hysterectomy
"Sick? It's Your Own Fault", Fed Pelka, Spring 1994
Healthcare for All - Will It Be Good for Women? Elaine Clift, Summer 1993
Taking Issue with Fetal Tissue, Are Women Being Conned? Janice G. Raymond, Spring 1993
Making babies, Miracle or Marketing Hype? Elayne Clift, Spring 1993
The Pros and Cons of Menstrual Extraction: Why It's a Good Idea, Rebecca Chalker, Why It's Not, Louise Tyrer, Spring 1993
Paying the Price in the Politics of Breast Cancer, Neal Barnard, M.D., Winter 1992
Excised – Reflections on My Uterus, Lois Green Stone, Summer 1992
Goodbye to White Male Privilege: Women Challenge Health Care Research, Elayne Clift, Winter 1991, clinical trials
Critiques of the New Contraceptives: After Norplant, What's Next? Jill Benderly, RU Angry? Rhona Mahoney, RU Sure? Jill Benderly, Summer 1991
On Donor Babies, The Ethics of Using One Child to Save Another, Barbara Katz Rothman, Winter 1990
Sexual Malpractice, Therapists Who Seduce their Patients, Fred Pelka, Vol 13 1989
NO MANDATORY TESTING! A Feminist Prostitute Speaks Out, Carol Leigh, Vol 10 1988
HIV-Positive Women Have Rights Too, Barbara Santee, Vol 10 1988
Sex, Politics and Psychology, Ray Rakow, M.D., Vol 9 1988
The Danger from Within & Out, When not following a doctor's orders may result in criminal prosecution, Merle Hoffman, Vol 7 1987
Women's Magazines Can be Dangerous to Your Health, Ellen R. Gritz, Vol 7 1987, cigarette advertising, smoking, lung cancer
Human Rights, Civil Rights
War on Drugs, War on Women, Maia Szalavitz, Winter 1999
Human Rights Human Wrongs, a World Report, Fall 1998, 50th Anniversary of Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
Emma Thompson: The World's Her Stage, Marilyn Stasio, Chile, Victor Jara, Pinochet, Allende, East Timor
Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma's Gandhi, Introduction to and excerpt from The Voice of Hope by Alan Clements
America: The World's Cop is a Cop-Out, interview with Charlotte Bunch by Jennifer Tierney
Layli Bashir, Kavita Menon
America's Political Prisoners, Mary Lou Greenberg
A Place at the Table, Women at the UN, Jennifer Tierney;
Today Harvard, Tomorrow the World, Swanee Hunt
Attack of the Morally Challenged, Fred Pelka, Summer 1996, disability rights
Newsroom Heretic: "I stood up for queer rights - and got punished in the name of free speech," Sandy Nelson, Fall 1996
The Judge Who Got Off, Joy Ward, Fall 1996, sexual assault, sexual harassment
The Bill of Whose Rights? Andrea Dworkin, Fall 1995, founding fathers
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Doing the Woman Justice, Suzanne Levine, Winter 1994
OTI Dialogue: Congressman John Lewis and Andrea Dworkin - Towards a Revolution in Values, with Merle Hoffman, Fall 1994, civil rights, feminism, pacifism, violence, pornography
Needed: A Feminist Immigration Policy, Eleanor Pam, Summer 1994
By Peaceful Means, Interview with Activist Ellen Moore, Susan Bristol-Howard, Fall 1991
A Dialogue With Eli Wiesel on Abortion, Love, and the Holocaust, with Merle Hoffman, Spring 1991, Nazis, Catholic church, Bruno Bettleheim, Primo Levi, Israel, Palestinians, antisemitism
Innocent Casualties in the War on Drugs, Betsy Swart, Winter 1990
International Reports
Cuba: Fidelistas and Feministas: Cuban Women in Crisis, Amy Martin, Winter 1999
Iran: Notes from the Interior, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1998
Algeria Unexamined, Laura Flanders, Spring 1998
Afghanistan: Buried Alive, Afghan Women Under the Taliban, Jan Goodwin, Summer 1998, UN, Islam, veiling, lashing women
Okinawa: Phallic Imperialism, Way Off Base, Rick Mercier, Winter 1997, military rape
Rwanda: Justice Denied, Jan Goodwin, Fall 1997, genocide, rape, sexual violence, Human Rights Watch, United Nations
Israel: Wailing at the Wall, Phyllis Chesler, Fall 1997, Israel
South Africa: Warrior Healers of South Africa, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1997, abortion, rape
Bosnia: A Nation of Widows, Jan Goodwin, Spring 1997
Nepal: Prisoners of Biology, Jan Goodwin, Fall 1966, abortion restrictions
Bosnia: What is Justice for a Rape Victim? Prosecuting Bosnia War Crimes, Phyllis Chesler, Winter 1996
Palestine at the Crossroads, Deborah Horan, Summer 1995
Israel: Claiming Sacred Ground, Women at the Kotel: Eight Years and Counting, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1996
Anson Chan, Hong Kong's First Elected Governor, Marlene C. Piturro, Summer 1995
Haiti: J'Accuse!, Laura Flanders, Spring 1995, rape, military rapes,
El Salvador, Feminism Born of Revolution, Betsy Morgan and Serena Gosgrove, Winter 1994
Iran: A Sacrificial Light: Self-Immolation in Tehran, Martha Shelley, Fall 1994, Iran
Iran: Sexual Apartheid in Iran, Mahin Hassibi, Fall 1994
Bosnia: American Rape Counselors in Bosnia, Andrea Wolper, Spring 1994
Ireland: For Irish Feminists: Activism = Imprisonment, Strip Search and Death, Betsy Swart, Summer 1993
Ireland: The Message in the Murder of Sheena Campbell, Summer 1993
Ireland: Like the Phoenix We Rise, Irish POW Bronwyn McGahan Speaks Out, Summer 1993
Bosnia: No Place to Hide, No Place to Run, The Balkanization of Women's Bodies, Jill Benderly, Summer 1993
East Timor: Blood on Our Hands, The US Abets Mass Murder, John W. Bartlett, Winter 1992
Northern Ireland: Oppression, Struggle and Outright Murder, An Interview with Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Betsy Swart, Winter 1992
After the Fall of Communism, Fall 1992
Suffer the Little Children and Their Mothers, oppression and safety net both gone, Michael Myerson, Fall 1982
Eastern European Feminism: No Room of One's Own, Jill Benderly, Fall 1992
Dawn Breaks on the Long, Dark Night of the Russian Soul, Nancy Seifer, Fall 1992
Zimbabwe Women Negotiate Their Roles, Traditional Culture and Women's Equality, Faith Fungayi Chimanda, Fall 1992
Guatemala: Invasion and Resistance, Guatemalan Women Speak, Margaret Randall, Winter 1991
Yugoslavia: "We Don't Want a Country of Invalids and Fresh Graves,"Yugoslav Women Against the War, Jill Benderly, Winter 1991
The Bahamas: A Nice Place to Visit, but.., Irene Davall, Fall 1991, women's health care
Czechoslovakia: Velvet Intuition, Interview with Eda Kriseova, Advisor to Vaclav Havel, Jill Benderly, Fall 1991
Israel: When Terror Strikes, The Six-Week War, Patricia Golan, Summer 1991, the Gulf war
Greenham Common, UK: The Uncommon Women of Greenham, told by Leslie Webster, written by Ginna D. Rose, Summer 1991, anti-militarism, peace camp
Poland, New Poland, Old Problems, still-flourishing anti-semitism, Susan Cahn, Spring 1991
Sweden: Mothers on the Run and Other Atrocities, Sweden 1990, Phyllis Chesler, Spring 1991
Guam - Territory in Turmoil, Amy Goodman, Winter 1990, abortion politics
Romania, A State of Shock, Babies with AIDS in post-Ceausescu Romania, Darrell L. Paster, Fall 1990
Eastern Europe: Among East European Women, Jill Benderly, Fall 1990, Bulgaria, The German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Yugoslavia
Survivors: Berlin 1990, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1990, anti-semitism, Holocaust, Nazism
Palestin/Israel: From Stones to Statehood, The Intifada Through the Eyes of American journalist Phyllis Bennis and photographer Neal Cassidy, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 1990
Palestine/Israel: Another View of the Middle East, Palestinian Arabs Yes, PLO No, Roberta Kalechofsky, Summer 1990
Palestine/Israel: Women in Black, Weekly Vigils Against the Israeli Occupation, Bill Strubbe, Summer 1990, Jewish women activists
Israel: A Song so Brave, Photo Essay, Presenting a Torah to Women of Jerusalem, Phyllis Chesler and photographer Joan Roth, Summer 1990
Cambodia: Interview with refugee Diane Kaav, Esty Dinur, Summer 1990, Khmer Rouge
Israel :The Walls Came Tumbling Down, Phyllis Chesler, Vol 11 1989
Africa: America's Secret African War in the Western Sahara, Major Carlos Wilson, Vol 11 1989
El Salvador: Un Canto Por La Paz, A Festival of Music for Peace in a Country of Death Squads and Disappearances, Ann Near, Vol 11 1989
South Africa: Apartheid, Outsiders in their Own Land, Vinie Burrows, Vol 9 1988
Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, Queer Politics, Lesbian and Gay Rights, Homophobia
Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West, reviwed by Carolyn Gage, Winter 1998
Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Gay Icon?, Carolyn Gage, Winter 1997
The Rise and Fall of Gay Subculture by Daniel Harris, reviewed by Jaclyn Geller, Fall 1997
How the Spirit Moves, Brenda and Wanda Henson, Spring 1997, Camp Sister Spirit, lesbian retreat
Newsroom Heretic: "I stood up for queer rights - and got punished in the name of free speech," Sandy Nelson, Fall 1996
Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, reviewed by Sally Owen, Fall 1996
Orgasm Politics: Has It Hijacked the Women's Movement?, Shiela Jeffries, Spring 1996, A Lesbian View, A Gay Male View
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid, reviewed by Sally Owen, Spring 1996
Sexual Politics on Book Tour, Mariah Burton Nelson, Fall 1995, coming-out as gay
Poland's Morning After, the Fight to Regain Reproductive Rights, Peggy Simpson, Spring 1995,
Deep Tapioca, Jill Johnston, Summer 1995, gay marriage, civil unions
The Politics of Violence, Charlotte Bunch, Fall 1990, militarism, sexism, racism, racism, homophobia
Out of the Closet and Into the Fray, Three Views on "Outing", Nancy Buermeyer, Gabriel Rotello, Urvashi Vaid, Fall 1990
Media
The Media Mirror Has No Face, reviews by Louise Armstrong of Real Majority, Media Minority: the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reportingby Laura Flanders, Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News by Caryl Rivers, and News Coverage of Violence Against Women by Marian Myers, Summer 1997
Some Couch Potatoes Are More Equal to Others, Carol Vinzant, Summer 1997, gender-based advertising, TV ads
Talking Back to the News, Sharon Rosenthal, Summer 1995 (CHECK DATE)
Power Babes & Victim Feminists, Elaine Rapping, Summer 1995, women in the media
Crowd on the Couch, Consciousness-Raising on TV Talk Shows, Elaine Rapping, Spring 1994
Sex Crimes, Circulation, and Sales, Interview with Helen Benedict, Fred Pelka, Fall 1993
How the Media Distorts Women's Progress, Elayne Rapping, Summer 1993
How the Media Slants the Message and Other Reportorial Sins, Laura Sydell, Summer 1992
"Dreamworlds," How the Media Abuses Women, interview with Prof. Sut Jhally, Fred Pelka, Winter 1991, MTV
Geez, Are We Really That Bad? Women in the Media, Nearly Invisible, Junior Bridge, Spring 1991
Politics, Elections
Turnout or Turnoff in 1998, Tanya Melich, Fall 1998, women's vote
Election 1996, Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Gonnerman, Winter 1997
Patterns of Power: How Women Vote, Run and Win, Fall 1997
United Kingdom: New Labour, New Women, Kelly Candaele
United States: Ain't I a Voter?, Wilma Rule and Stephen Hill
United States: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Myself!, Judith K. Witherow
Elections '96, Spring 1996
Running Scared, Kay Mills, Spring 1996; 10 New Women to Watch in '96; The Lessons of '92
The Republican War Against Women by Tanya Melich, interviewed by Julia Kagan, Summer 1996
Election '96, Running Scared, Kay Mills, Spring 1996, women candidates
Irene Pivetti: The Hot Politics of Italy's Ice Maiden, Peggy Simpson, Spring 1996, Italian parliament
The Politics of the Possible, What Women Can Gain Under Clinton, Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Winter 1994
Let's Make Rape An Election Issue, Make the US A "Rape-Free Zone," John Stoltenberg, Fall 1992
Women's Magazines Can be Dangerous to Your Health, Ellen R. Gritz, Vol 7 1987, cigarette advertising, smoking, lung cancer
Race, Racial Politics
Not a Black and White Issue, E. Assata Wright, Winter 1998, domestic abuse, women of color, Black women, Latinas
"Passing," Toi Derricotte, Summer 1998
Power From My People, Sabrina Margarita, Winter 1997, ethnicity, racial harassment, martial arts
Unfinished Business, Janice K Bryant, Fall 1997, Sojourner Truth
Can We Talk? Racism and Domestic Violence, a discussion with Tammy Bruce and Julianne Malveaux, Summer 1996
Affirmative Action, Deborah Cooksey and Marilyn Easter, Summer 1996, white privilege
Raising Sons as Allies, Paul Kivel, Summer 1996, anti-racist, anti-sexist childraising
Bum Raps, "Bubbas," and Affirmative Action, by Julianne Malveaux in conversation with Barbara Arnwine, and Ramona Edelin, Fall 1995, African American women, civil rights, rap music
A Simple Human Right, the History of Black Women and Abortion, Loretta J. Ross, Spring 1994
What Women Can Learn from Malcolm X, Flo Kennedy and Irene Davall, Summer 1993
Young African-American Women Rap About Gender-Strong women, Independence and Inequality, Laurie Ouellette, Fall 1992
The Politics of Violence, Charlotte Bunch, Fall 1990, militarism, sexism, racism, racism, homophobia
Breaking Barriers, Women and Minorities in the Sciences, Interview with MIT President Paul E. Gray and Dean of Student Affairs Shirley M. McBay, Summer 1990
Flo Kennedy and Irene Davall: Forever Activists, Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, NOW, racism, Black women, civil rights
Relationships, Love, Families
The End of the Novel of Loveby Vivian Gornick, excerpts and review by Mahin Hassibi, MD, Winter 1998
Zen and the Art of Motherhood, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1998
The Dad Debate, Winter 1997
Is a Bad Dad Better Than No Dad?, Olga Silverstein, male role-model
Is Every Woman One Divorce Away From Financial Disaster?, Phyllis Chesler
Will Paternal Paranoia Triumph?, Trish Wilson, angry dads,
Do Women and Children Have a Prayer?, Carter Heyward, anti-woman bias in religion
Marriage as Realpolitik, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1996, Elizabeth I, Princess Diana
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray, reviewed by Eleanor J Bader, Spring 1996
The Future of Love, Special Section, Summer 1995
Deep Tapioca, Jill Johnston, Summer 1995, gay marriage, civil unions
Paying His Way, Laurel Touby, Summer 1995
Relationship Trends We'd Like to See, Summer 1995
State-of-the-Couple Report, Ronni Sandroff, Summer 1995, marriage, significant others
L500 With Interest, Jill Johnston, Spring 1996
One by One, Living Alone, Bryna Taubman, Winter 1995
Degrees of Separation, Mary E. Hunt, Summer 1994, boundaries in relationships
Reflections of a Feminist Mom, Jeannine O. Howitz, Fall 1993
Against Ambiguity, An Homage to Knowledgeable Love, Alfred E. Fireman, Spring 1993
Motherhood and Feminism, Feminist Writer Jane Lazarre, Eleanor Bader, Fall 1991
Motherhood or Bust, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Fall 1990, foster children, foster family
Susana, The Myth of the Saved Child, How the Fost Care System Fails Children, Naomi Feigelson Chase, Fall 1990
Religion, Spirituality
Rosary V. Ovary, Ann Petifer, Fall 1998, Pope, Catholic church
Should the Trinity be a Quartet? Should Mary be Elevated?, Spring 1998
Manifesting the Goddess, A Conversation with Mary Daly
Mary Co-Opted as Co-Redeemer, Frances Kissling
Mary: A Muslim Feminist?, Laila al-Marayati
The Priesthood of Women, Carter Heyward
Do Women and Children Have a Prayer?, Carter Heyward, Winter 1997, anti-woman bias in relligion
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk, reviewed by Margaret R Saraco, Fall 1997
Beyond Nostalgia: Rethinking the Goddess, Judith S Antonelli, Summer 1997, paganism, prostitution
Casting Stones: The Theology of Prostitution, Rita Nakashima Brock, Summer 1997
The Only Reason You Want to Go to Heaven is That You Have Been Driven Out of Your Mind (Off Your Land and Out of Your Lover's Arms), Alice Walker, Spring 1997, inherited religion, paganism, the pagan self
Fundamentalism, Frances Kissling, Winter 1996
The Seduction of Certainty, Losing Feminist Daughters to Orthodoxy, Andrea Gurwitt, Winter 1996
Whose God Is It Anyway? Special Section, Spring 1995
Male Virgins, Blood Covenants, and Family Values: Inside Promise Keepers, America's Fastest Growing Men's Movement, John Stoltenberg
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Carolyn Gage
Re-Imagining God: Are We Made in Her Image? Lou Ann Matossian
Searching for Mary, Virginity as Metaphor, Elizabeth Lasrsen, Winter 1994
Let's get "Serious," The Attack on Madonna Scholarship, Laurie Ouellette, Spring 1993
A Conversation: the Rev Beatrice Blair and Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985, morality, Episcopal Church
Right-Wing Movements
Will Paternal Paranoia Triumph?, Trish Wilson, Winter 1997, father's rights
How to Get the Goods on the Right, Loretta J. Ross, Winter 1997
Eyes Right! Chip Berlet ed, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, Fall 1996
Male Virgins, Blood Covenants, and Family Values: Inside Promise Keepers, America's Fastest Growing Men's Movement, John Stoltenberg, Spring 1995
Heartsick in the Heartland, Andrea Peyser, Fall 1995, Oklahoma City bombing
Phyllis Schlafly's Ancestors, Patricia Riley Dunlap, Spring 1995, anti-suffragists
Godfathers on Campus, Fall 1994
"Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay," How the Religious Right helped defeat Iowa's ERA, Heather Rhodes, Fall 1993
Robert Bly and Iron John, Fred Pelka, Summer 1991, men's movement, machismo
Stranger in a Strange Land, Attending a Right To Life Conference, Eleanor J. Bader, Vol 13 1989
Sex, Sexuality
Designing Sex: Playing God, Have Doctors Gone Too Far?, Mahin Hassibi, MD, Summer 1998, hermaphrodites, castration, genital surgery
The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation, Martha Coventry, Summer 1998, clitorectomy, genital mutilation, American Academy of Pediatrics
Orgasm Politics: Has It Hijacked the Women's Movement?, Shiela Jeffries, Spring 1996
What's Left of Sex? Elaine Rapping, Summer 1994
Swept Awake! Negotiating Passion on Campus, Bonnie Pfister, Spring 1994
Women Who Love Sex, Gina Ogden, Spring 1994
Sports
A Whole New Ball Game, Anngel Delaney, Winter 1999
Enduring Women, Anngel Delaney, Fall 1998, endurance, sports records
How We Got Rid of the Bloody Corsets, Anngel Delaney, Spring 1998, sportswear
Equestrian Equality, Norine Dworkin, Fall 1996
Love Means No Score, Monica Seles Betrayed, Cindy Shmerler, Spring 1994
Violence Against Women, Rape, Incest, Battery, Abuse, Harassment, Self-Defense
No Safe Place, Phyllis Chesler, Winter 1998, mental hospitals, pedophiles
Power From My People, Sabrina Margarita, Winter 1997
Working Inside the System, Anne Tully, Winter 1997
Advice from Inside Out: 6 Ways to Make the Law-Enforcement System Work for Women, Winter 1997
The Judge Who Got Off, Joy Ward, Fall 1996, sexual assault, sexual harassment
When Street Harassment Gets Nasty, Teresa Yunker, Summer 1996
Talking Back about Talking Back, Faria Chideya, Linda Fairstein, Henry Rollins, Tara Roberts, Joan Jett and others respond to Theresa Yunker's article, Summer 1996
Can We Talk? Racism and Domestic Violence, a discussion with Tammy Bruce and Julianne Malveaux, Summer 1996
Why Annie Got Her Gun, Carolyn Gage, Spring 1996, Annie Oakley, self-defense
Confessions of a Child Molester, Anonymous, Winter 1995
Busting Mister Short Eyes, Pedophiles Posing as "Sexual Liberals," Nikki Craft, Winter 1995
What is Justice for a Rape Victim?, Phyllis Chesler Winter 1995, Bosnia, war crimes
Is the Right to Kill in Self-Defense Reserved for Men?, Phyllis Chesler, Winter 1995
Court TV We'd Like to See: A Plain English Guide to the Violence Against Women Act, David Frazee, with related sidebars, Fall 1995
The Politics of Forgiveness: How the Christian Church Guilt-Trips Survivors, Fred Keene, Fall 1995
Pimping: The World's Oldest Profession, Kathleen Barry, Summer 1995
Unclear and Present Danger: Self-Defense Laws, Leah Rose, Summer 1995
Tragedy, American-Style, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1995, OJ Simpson, Susan Smith, Medea, infanticide
Rape in High Places, Phyllis Chesler, Spring 1995
Who Stole Incest? Louise Armstrong, Fall 1994, child rape
OTI Dialogue: Congressman John Lewis and Andrea Dworkin - Towards a Revolution in Values, with Merle Hoffman, Fall 1994, civil rights, feminism, pacifism, violence, pornography
Discussion with Liz Holtzman and Alice Vachss by Merle Hoffman, Summer 1994, sex crimes
When "Regular Guys" Rape, the Trial of the Glen Ridge Four, Christine Schaack McGoey, Fall 1993
Let's Make Rape An Election Issue, Make the US A "Rape-Free Zone," John Stoltenberg, Fall 1992
Breaking the Lethal Circle: A Personal Account of an Abusive Childhood, Paola D'Ellesio, Summer 1992
Healing Ourselves, Healing the World, Interview with Laura Davis, Barbara Bolz, Fall 1991, incest
The Strange Case of Mark Curtis, Victim or Victimizer? Fred Pelka, Spring 1991
Living in a Land of Sexual Violence, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1990, objectifying women, racism
The Politics of Violence, Charlotte Bunch, Fall 1990, militarism, sexism, racism, racism, homophobia
Women's Lives Under Padding, Merle Hoffman, Vol 9, 1988, male domination, battered women's syndrome, Hedda Nussbaum, bullfighting
Rape and Child Sex Abuse, Elizabeth Holtzman, Vol 7 1987, criminal justice system
Women's Movement
Forever Bella, In Her Own Words, Summer 1998
Unfinished Business, Janice K Bryant, Fall 1997, Sojourner Truth
Orgasm Politics: Has It Hijacked the Women's Movement?, Shiela Jeffries, Spring 1996, A Lesbian View, A Gay Male View
A Fighter from the Bronx: Bella Abzug, Spring 1995
The Mothers We Never Knew, Seneca Falls Women's Rights National Park, Lynn Phillips, Winter 1994
Always in Your Face, Flo Kennedy, An Activist Forever, Beverly Lowy, Spring 1993
Under Attack But Fighting Back: The Birth of the Poor Women's Movement, Nina Schuyler, Winter 1992
Women's Work, Women's Lives, Pioneers, Activists, Prisoners, Survivors, Trailblazers
The Hormone Wars, Loretta Williams, Winter 1999
Serving the Sentence, Deborah Shouse, Winter 1999
My Grandmother's Stories, Jody Lannen Brady, Winter 1999
Saving the World: Motherhood as Advocacy, Michelle Brockway, Fall 1988, incest, foster care
A Meditation on the Sea, Phyllis Chesler, Fall 1998
Out of the Loop and Out of Print, Kate Millett, Summer 1998, aging
When Death is a Constant Companion: Why Women Reporters Go to War, Marilyn Stasio, Spring 1998
Hattie Canty: There Once Was a Union Maid, Lawrence Lader, Spring 1998, union organizing, hotel workers, Las Vegas
Girls and the Business of Sex, Summer 1997, child prostitution, sex trade, Senegal, Philadelphia
One Woman with a Mission, Dylan Foley
African Girls at Risk, A Half-Million Teen Prostitutes, Andrea D'Asaro
OTI Goes to a Wedding, Jaclyn Geller, Summer 1997, celebrity bride, marriage
How the Spirit Moves, Brenda and Wanda Henson, Spring 1997, Camp Sister Spirit, lesbian retreat
No Tears Left: One Nanny's Odyssey in America, Camille Small, Spring 1997
Rita Levi-Montalcini: Biology and Destiny, Ruby Rohrlich, Spring 1997
My Six Months as an Afghan Bride: The Making of an American Feminist, Phyllis Chesler, Spring 1997
Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World by Anne Roiphe, reviewed by Robin Bromley, Spring 1997
Gina Gold and the Three-Legged Dog, Profile of an Ex-Lap Dancer, Jody Elizabeth Gehrman, Winter 1996
"One Must be Ready for Time and Eternity," The Legacy of Bertha Pappenheim, Melinda Given Guttman, Fall 1996
Peak Experience, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1996
Diary of a Rape-Crisis Counselor, Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Spring 1996
The Ugly Dutchess, Edith Pearlman, Winter 1995
Bike Lust, Barbara Joans, Fall 1995
Oklahoma Diary: Heartsick in the Heartland, Andrea Peyser, Fall 1995
Write What You Want, as Long as It's About Sex, Shere Hite, Fall 1995
Mississippi Feminists Under Attack, Phyllis Chesler, Fall 1994
An Update on Aileen Wuornos, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1993
Women Whistleblowers: What They Say, the Price They Pay, Elaine Clift, Winter 1992
Aileen Wuornos on Trial, Sex, Death and the Double Standard, Phyllis Chesler, Summer 1992
You Can Go Home Again, Interview with Writer Melissa Fay Greene, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 1992
The Hidden Children of the Shoah, The Full Extent of the Damage, Beverly Lowy, Winter 1991, Holocaust
Ginny Nelson, A Sister of the Road, Shannon Moon Leonetti, Fall 1991
"I am Somebody," Barbara's Story, M. Robbyn Swan, Summer 1991, dependency
Fay Stender and the Politics of Murder, Diana Russell, Spring 1991
Women on War and Survival, Ending Nuclear Overkill and War, Daniela Gioseffi, Fall 1990
Mothers in the Fatherland, Interview with author Claudia Koonz on Women in Nazi Germany, Fred Pelka, Fall 1990
H.O.M.E., One Woman's Approach to Society's Problems, Helen M. Stummer, Summer 1990, homelessness, disenfranchisement
Women Travelers, Willie Mao Kneupper, Summer 1990
I Dream A World, Portraits of 75 Women Who Changed America, Interview with Photographer Brian Lanker, Eleanor J. Bader, Vol 14 Spring 1990
America's Most Dangerous Woman? Interview with Political Prisoner Susan Rosenberg by Merle Hoffman, Vol 13 1989
Hysterical Housewives (And Other Courageous Women), Karen Jan Stults, Vol 13 1989, grassroots organizers, toxic wastes
Following the Vision: 50 Years in the Non-Violent Movement, Marjorie Swann, Vol 11 1989, pacifism
Breaking the Barriers, Interview with Kate Millet, Merle Hoffman, Vol 10 1988
The Teen Who Just Said "No!" Interview by Roberta Kalechofky, Vol 10 1988
The Invisible Woman, Melody Anderson and Leora Magler, Vol 7 1987, aging
Special Sections
Human Rights Human Wrongs, a World Report, Fall 1998, 50th Anniversary of Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
Emma Thompson: The World's Her Stage, Marilyn Stasio, Chile, Victor Jara, Pinochet, Allende, East Timor
Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma's Gandhi, Introduction to and excerpt from The Voice of Hope by Alan Clements
America: The World's Cop is a Cop-Out, interview with Charlotte Bunch by Jennifer Tierney
Layli Bashir, Kavita Menon
America's Political Prisoners, Mary Lou Greenberg
A Place at the Table, Women at the UN, Jennifer Tierney;
Today Harvard, Tomorrow the World, Swanee Hunt
Special Section - Loving Babies, Hating Women: The International Conspiracy Against Abortion Rights, Fall 1996
Nepal: Prisoners of Biology, Jan Goodwin, anti-abortion laws
The Anti-Abortion Stealth Campaign, Jennifer Gonnerman, Human Life International, Operation Rescue
Elections '96, Spring 1996
Running Scared, Kay Mills
10 New Women to Watch in '96
The Lessons of '92
Beijing: the Mother of All Meetings, Winter 1995
The Appeal of Fundamentalism, Frances Kissling
Beyond Victim Analysis, Ronni Sandroff
Feminist Counseling, Ronni Sandroff
Front Page, Chinese Style, Peggy Simpson
The Kitchen Cabinet, Julie Mertus
Peter Principle, Chinese Style, Ellen Snortland
The Violence Against Women Act, Fall 1995
Court TV We'd Like to See: A Plain English Guide to the Violence Against Women Act, David Frazee, with related sidebars
The Future of Love, Summer 1995
The Future of Love
Deep Tapioca, Jill Johnston,, gay marriage, civil unions
Paying His Way, Laurel Touby
Relationship Trends We'd Like to See
State-of-the-Couple Report, Ronni Sandroff, marriage, significant others