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ACTIVISM AND POLITICS IN THE US
Politics. Elections. Right-wing movements. Human Rights. Civil Rights. Military. Peace. Activism.
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ACTIVISM!. the Editors, Fall 2011
Unfurling the Progressive Banner: Where We Are, Leslie Cagan, Fall 2011
Marcha de las Putas: SlutWalking Crosses Global Divides, Stephanie Gilmore, Fall 2011
Getting Over the Online v Offline Debate, Amanda Marcotte, Fall 2011
Heather Ault: Visualizing 4000 Years of Choice, Eleanor Bader, Fall 2011
Stories Matter: How to Power Up Your Activism, Thaler Pekar, Fall 2011
Book Corner: Feminist Press Picks Five Top Activist Reads, Elizabeth Koke and Glynnis King, Fall 2011
Challenging People to Think: Activism for Atheism, Sunsara Taylor, Fall 2011
Letter to a Young Activist: Left to Learn from the ‘60s, Laura Whitehorn, Fall 2011
Taking A Stand Against Ageism at All Ages: A Powerful Coalition, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Fall 2011
Our Little Light: Letter From A Young Activist. Lindsey Hennawi, Fall 2011
Speak Out: Sharing Passions, Tips, Techniques, Gabrielle Korn, Fall 2011
Teaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action, Ileana Jiménez, Fall 2011
Student Think Tank, Fall 2011
Haven Volunteers: An Immediate Impact on Abortion Care, Mary Lou Greenberg, Fall 2011
The Populist Movement Reborn, At Last, In Occupy, Rosalyn Baxandall, Fall 2011
Resilience Circles: Consciousness-Raising Groups for Tough Economic Times, Sarah Byrnes, Fall 2011
Engaged Activism: Two Women Challenge Global Sex Trafficking, Gabrielle Korn, Fall 2011
Saying No in Mississippi: No to Personhood, No to Voter Restrictions, Loretta J. Ross, Fall 2011
"Occupy" and Feminism Equal New Solidarity: Frances Fox Piven Speaks, Cindy Cooper, Fall 2011
Echoing at "Occupy": The Women Behind Social Security, Carolyn Gage, Fall 2011
World AIDS Day: Women HIV Activists Make Sex Ed A Reality, Alison Yager, Fall 2011
Education as Action: Supporting the Sexual Health of Sex Workers, Sarah Elspeth Patterson, Fall 2011
A Lesson From History: WWII and Fighting to Keep Women From Slavery, The Editors, Summer 2011
Military Women: Unfair Denial of Abortion Access Needs to End, Marjorie Signer, Summer 2011
Jeannette Rankin, Suffragist and Pacifist: She Speaks For Me, Jeanmarie Simpson, Summer 2011
Good News for Trans Veterans: New VA Health Care Guidelines, Autumn Sandeen, Summer 2011
Why I Wrote A War Novel, Helen Benedict, Summer 2011
Fighting to Fight: Questioning the Battle of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", Gabrielle Korn, Summer 2011
Ending Wartime Rape Means Ending War and Patriarchy, Judith Avory Faucette, Summer 2011
Challenging Militarism and Ending Violence Against Women, Keely Swan, Summer 2011
Pushing Back Attacks on Artistic Freedom, Linda Stein, Summer 2011
Paradoxes of Women in Uniform Take Deep Listening, Chris Lombardi, Summer 2011
Fighting to Gratify a Sex Instinct? War Attitudes Vary by Gender, Lori Adelman, Summer 2011
Violence Against Women Surges When War Is "Done", Yifat Susskin, Summer 2011
War Resisters Inject Truth into Military Recruitment, Eleanor Bader, Summer 2011
Gender Values: The Costs of War, Susan Feiner, 2011
The Cruel Lie: Bombing To Liberate Women, Debra Sweet Summer, 2011
Peace is a Human Right: Give Us Women Who Get It, Cora Weiss, Summer 2011
A Feminist Looks at Masculine Rage and the Haditha Massacre, Kathleen Barry, Summer 2011
Beyond Equality to Liberation, Mary Lou Greenberg, Summer 2010
Say "I Do": Constitutional Equality is Forever", Carolyn A. Cook, Summer 2010
Practicing Freedom: An Enduring Model in Anne Frank, Maureen McNeil, Spring 2010
Equality for Women: Insights from My Grandfather, Maame-Mensima Horne, Spring 2010
Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi: End Male Power Structures, Janet Benshoof, Winter 2010
With the Understanding of Ghandi, Aminatou Put Her Life on the Line, Barbara Becker Winter 2010
Anabella: Guatemalan Leader Deploys Stilettos Against Corruption, Gail Kriegel, Winter 2010
Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence, Theresa Braine, Winter 2010
Maternal Mortality, Slavery, Fistula Fill Half The Sky, Elayne Clift, Winter 2010
In the Act Alone: German Resistance to the Nazi Movement, Cynthia L. Cooper, Winter 2010
Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti, Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 2010
Unlocking the Quiet Courage of Afghans, Dr. Sakena Yacoobi Winter 2010
Black Abortion: Breaking the Silence, Maame-Mensima Horne, Fall 2009
Birthers and Birchers: Hiding Behind Stars and Stripes, Loretta J. Ross, Fall 2009
In Peril: North African Freedom Fighter on Hunger Strike, Cindy Cooper, Fall 2009
Asylum Pitfalls May Await the Transgender Applicant, Victoria Neilson, Summer 2009
Women Are the Solution, Not the Problem, Talia Carner, Summer 2009
American Taliban: Sect Controls Women's Destinies, Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer, Summer 2009
It All Started With Adam and Eve, Mary Lou Greenberg, Summer 2009
Equal Rights Amendment Still Brings Out Ranters, Jennifer S. Macleod, Spring 2009
To Run the World, Power Up Feminism, Gloria Feldt, Spring 2009
Mobilizing for Reproductive Justice, Loretta J. Ross, Spring 2009
Listen Up: UN Must Hear Women on Violence, Charlotte Bunch, Spring 2009
Holding the Line, Defending Feminist Values in Immigration Enforcement, Meghan Rhoad, Spring 2009
Our Architecture Ourselves, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Winter 2009
Unprecedented Recognition for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Myra Kovary, Winter 2009
Twisted Treaty Shafts U.S. Women, Janet Benshoof, Winter 2009
End Torture, End Domestic Violence, Rhonda Copelon, Winter 2009
The Dangerous Complacency of Victory, Merle Hoffman, Fall 2008
Art and Politics, Interpretations by Women, Linda Stein, Fall 2008
The Terror and Error of Sarah Palin, Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper, Fall 2008
Sarah Palin and the Apocalypse, Merle Hoffman, Fall 2008
Re-enslaving African American Women, Loretta Ross, Fall 2008
San Francisco Could End Terror, Witch-Hunting and Criminalization for Prostitutes with Prop
K, Rachel West, Fall 2008
Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women, Ariel Dougherty, Fall 2008
Protecting the Human Family, Sally Roesch Wagner, Fall 2008
Women and the War on Terror, An Unintended Consequence? Sallie Bingham, Fall 2008
Anti-Immigrant Fervor Translates to Terror for Women, Melissa Nalani Ross, Fall 2008
Feminist Divisions Cause Real-World Repercussions, Juhu Thukral, Summer 2008
Fighting Prostitution at the Expense of Slavery, The 2007 Federal Law, Melynda H. Barnhart, Summer 2008
Safeguarding the Rights of Prostituted Women, Lakshmi Anantnarayan, Summer 2008
Nothing About Us, Without Us, Ann Jordan, Summer 2008
Bad Thoughts, right-wing on HIV/AIDS, May 2008
War on Drugs, War on Women, Maia Szalavitz, Winter 1999
Turnout or Turnoff in 1998, Tanya Melich, Fall 1998
Emma Thompson: The World's Her Stage, Marilyn Stasio, Fall 1998
Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma's Gandhi, Introduction to and excerpt from The Voice of Hope by Alan Clements, Fall 1998
America: The World's Cop is a Cop-Out, interview with Charlotte Bunch, by Jennifer Tierney, Fall 1998
Layli Bashir Unexpected Crusader, Kavita Menon, Fall 1998
America's Political Prisoners, Mary Lou Greenberg, Fall 1998
A Place at the Table, Women at the UN, Jennifer Tierney; Fall 1998
Today Harvard, Tomorrow the World, Swanee Hunt, Fall 1998
Patterns of Power: How Women Vote, Run and Win, Fall 1997
Election 1996, Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Gonnerman, Winter 1997
Will Paternal Paranoia Triumph?, Trish Wilson, Winter 1997
How to Get the Goods on the Right, Loretta J. Ross, Winter 1997
United Kingdom: New Labour, New Women, Kelly Candaele, Fall 1997
United States: Ain't I a Voter?, Wilma Rule and Stephen Hill, Fall 1997
United States: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Myself!, Judith K. Witherow, Fall 1997
Eyes Right! Chip Berlet ed, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, Fall 1996
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
The Republican War Against Women by Tanya Melich, interviewed by Julia Kagan, Summer 1996
Attack of the Morally Challenged, Fred Pelka, Summer 1996
Irene Pivetti: The Hot Politics of Italy's Ice Maiden, Peggy Simpson, Spring 1996
Election '96, Running Scared, Kay Mills, Spring 1996
Heartsick in the Heartland, Andrea Peyser, Fall 1995
Male Virgins, Blood Covenants, and Family Values: Inside Promise Keepers, America's Fastest Growing Men's Movement, John Stoltenberg, Spring 1995
The Bill of Whose Rights? Andrea Dworkin, Fall 1995
Phyllis Schlafly's Ancestors, Patricia Riley Dunlap, Spring 1995
Godfathers on Campus, Suzanne Levine, Fall 1994
OTI Dialogue: Congressman John Lewis and Andrea Dworkin - Towards a Revolution in Values, with Merle Hoffman, Fall 1994
Needed: A Feminist Immigration Policy, Eleanor Pam, Summer 1994
The Politics of the Possible, What Women Can Gain Under Clinton, Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Winter 1994
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Doing the Woman Justice, Suzanne Levine, Winter 1994
How the Religious Right helped defeat Iowa's ERA, Heather Rhodes, Fall 1993
Let's Make Rape An Election Issue, Make the US A "Rape-Free Zone," John Stoltenberg, Fall
1992
By Peaceful Means, Interview with Activist Ellen Moore, Susan Bristol-Howard, Fall 1991
Robert Bly and Iron John, Fred Pelka, Summer 1991
A Dialogue With Eli Wiesel on Abortion, Love, and the Holocaust, with Merle Hoffman, Spring 1991
Rothman, Betsy Swart, Winter 1990
Stranger in a Strange Land, Attending a Right To Life Conference, Eleanor J. Bader, Vol 13 1989
Women's Magazines Can be Dangerous to Your Health, Ellen R. Gritz, Vol 7 1987
NOT ALL WOMEN ARE FOR WOMEN, Volume 3, 1984
A Woman's Place is in the House -- and Senate! Betty G. Lall, Volume 3, 1984
An Update on Baby Jane Doe, Volume 3, 1984
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