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Food for The Soul: Poetry That Pierces Injustice, Sarah Browning, Fall 2011
Book Corner: Feminist Press Picks Five Top Activist Reads, Elizabeth Koke and Glynnis King, Fall 2011
Filming Against Odds: Undocumented Youth “Come Out” With Their Dreams, Anne Galisky, Fall 2011
Fiction: A Basket of Biscuits, Michael angel Johnson, Fall 2011
Teaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action, Ileana Jiménez, Fall 2011
Understanding the Myth: Why Cassandra Must Not be Silenced, Laura A. Shamas, Summer 2011
Pushing Back Attacks on Artistic Freedom, Linda Stein, Summer 2011
The Poet's Eye, with Lisa Suhair Majaj, Kathy Engel, Meg Hamill, and Carmen Calatayud, Sarah Browning, Summer 2011
The Art Perspective with Frances Jetter, Linda Stein, Summer 2011
Top Ten: Three Years of Stories That Grabbed Readers, Gabrielle Korn, Summer 2011
Art Perspective featuring Mary Miss, Linda Stein, Spring 2011
The Poet's Eye, Judith Arcana, Spring 2011
Poetry: Reliving the Nuclear Nightmare, Karen Ethelsdattar, Spring 2011
The Art Perspective, Judy Chicago, Winter 2011
Icons, Superheroes and Fantasies a Feminist Can Love?, Linda Stein, Winter 2011
Films that Inform Our Lives: Maybe Next Year?, Heather Cowherd, Winter 2011
Broadway Has A Long Way to Go, Baby, Deborah Savadge, Summer 2010 Cafe
Girls- and Women- Are Slamming the Poetry Scene, Lauren Zuniga, Summer 2010
Snood by Snood, Tight-Knit Orthodox Piety Loosens Up, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 2010
Women Challenge Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church, Angela Bonavoglia, Summer 2010
Gloria Feldt's "No Excuses" and Ways for Women to Think About Power, Theresa Noll, Summer 2010
Formation of Gender Identity in the Church, Rev. Rebecca Turner, Summer 2010 Cafe
Girls Kick: Moving the Media's World Cup Goal Posts, Ariel Dougherty, Summer 2010
The Poet's Eye: Penelope Scambly Schott, Maria Padhila, Wendy Vardaman, and Sondra Zeidenstein, selected by Judith Arcana, Summer 2010
A Prayer for the Girl Child, Suzanne Stutman, Summer 2010
Girls- and Women- Are Slamming the Poetry Scene, Lauren Zuniga, Summer 2010 Cafe
The Poet's Eye: Margaret Randall, Meena Alexander, Suheir Hammad, selected by Clare Coss, Spring 2010
On "Generation Y/Millenials" and Teaching Reproductive Justice Through Film, Angie Young, Spring 2010
Taking Seminaries Out of the Box, Donna Schaper, Spring 2010
Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education, Rebecca Turner, Spring 2010
The Art Perspective: Michelle Stuart, Linda Stein, Spring 2010
Indie Music Groups Share Sex Positivity, Georgia Kral, Spring 2010
Two Years of Hits: The Top Ten, the Editors, Spring 2010, top Internet stories 2008-2010
Sharing the Joy of Resistance Through Radio, Fran Luck, Spring 2010
Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It, Jennifer L. Pozner, Spring 2010
Wonder Woman Confronts a Makeover Moment: A Missed Chance, Linda Stein, Spring 2010
Thinking About Hollywood: Breaking the Entertainment Barrier, Jaye Austin Williams, Spring 2010
A Feminist's U-Turn: A Torrid Tale of Disappointment and Discovery, Megan Carpentier, Spring 2010
Listening Up: Students Blow the Whistle on Sexual Violence, Stephanie Gilmore and Sarah Barr, Spring 2010
Three Habits of the Heart and Mind To Spark Cultural Awakening, Arlene Goldbard, Spring 2010
Practicing Freedom: An Enduring Model in Anne Frank, Maureen McNeil, Spring 2010
Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education, Rev. Rebecca Turner, Spring 2010
Wonder Woman Confronts a Makeover Moment: A Missed Chance, Linda Stein, Spring 2010
The Art Perspective: Retrospective of Miriam Schapiro, Linda Stein Winter 2010
Wonder Woman: A Comic Book Character Shows The Way, Linda Stein Winter 2010
The African American Woman Who Shaped the Future of Art, Ms. Michael angel Johnson, Winter 2010
Loretta Ross Unmasks Black Anti-Abortion Message, Media Spin, Cynthia L. Cooper, Winter 2010
In the Act Alone: German Resistance to the Nazi Movement, Cynthia L. Cooper, Winter 2010
Harriet's Voice: A Writer and Her Inhabitation, Karen Jones Meadows, Winter 2010
Liberian Women Forge a Real Life Lysistrata, Jaye Austin Williams, Winter 2010
Grace Paley's true North: Justice in Writing and Action, Judith Arcana, Winter 2010
Heads High: Three Poems of Unsung Women, Emily Rand Breitner, Winter 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi on Love, A Poem, Maureen McNeil, Winter 2010
A Poem: Praise to our Mothers, Gcina Mholphe, Winter 2010
A Poem About Bella: "Under the Big Hat", Claire Reed, Winter 2010
My Heroines, Marge Piercy, Winter 2010
The Poet's Eye: Heather Davis, Susan Eisenberg and Renny Golden, Judith Arcana, Winter 2010
Mujeres Take Back the Culture With Old Photos, Graciela Sanchez, Fall 2009
The Poet's Eye: Marian Cannon Dornell and Cheryl Clarke, Clare Coss, Fall 2009
The Art Perspective, Faith Ringgold, Fall 2009
Mujeres Take Back the Culture With Old Photos, Graciela Sanchez, Fall 2009
The African American Woman Who Shaped the Future of Art, Ms. Michael angel Johnson Fall 2009
Reigniting Black Feminist Power, Review by Christine E. Hutchins, Fall 2009
Defying Labels With Fearlessness, Review by Courtney Zehnder, Fall 2009
White Silence and Responsibility, Clare Coss, Fall 2009
"The Heretics": Film Invigorates Feminism, Art, Politics, Ariel Doughterty, Summer 2009
Third Wave Video Art: Sarcastic and Serious, Heather MacGibbon, Summer, 2009
The Death of a Dream: Layers of Domestic Violence, Nancy Genova, Summer 2009
Women Still at the Hoops, but Parity Scores Low, Mary Lou Greenberg, Summer 2009
Women in the Arts: How They Can Change Your Life, Barbara Kahn, Summer 2009
American Taliban: Sect Controls Women's Destinies, Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer, Summer 2009
How Media Portrayals Affect Women Seeking Abortions, review by Heather MacGibbon, Summer 2009
The Art Perspective, Tammy Rae Carland, Summer 2009
Elizabeth Sackler Gives Hope, but Artistic Venues Are Slim for Women, Linda Stein, Summer 2009
Art World Insiders Struggle to Address Disparity, Linda Stein, Summer 2009
Poetry by Julie Enszer, Judith Barrington and Toi Derricotte, selected by Claire Coss, Summer 2009
A Poem: Barrettes, Bandages and Butterflies, Donna Nelson, Summer 2009
A Human Finds Robot Love: New Jeanette Winterson Book, review by Cameron Kelsall, Summer 2009
Teens, Freaks, Outlaws and Alternatives to Suicide, Kate Bornstein, Summer 2009
Women in the Arts: How They Can Change Your Life, Barbara Kahn, Summer 2009
Poetry by Julie Enszer, Judith Barrington and Toi Derricotte, selected by Claire Coss, Summer 2009
Poems by Judith Arcana, Grace Paley and Nimah I. Nawwab, selected by Claire Coss, Spring 2009
The Art Perspective, Judith K. Brodsky, curated by Linda Stein, Spring 2009
Poem Honoring Slain Abortion Doctor, Again, Judith Arcana, Spring 2009 Cafe
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves, by Kevin Bales, reviewed by Christine E. Hutchins, Spring 2009
The Reproductive Rights Reader: Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood, Ed. Nancy Ehrenriech, reviewed by Christine E. Hutchins, Spring 2009
Taking Multimedia Action to Stop HIV-AIDS in Youth, Simon Fisher, Spring 2009 Cafe
Whose Utopia?, Mahin Hassibi, Winter 2009
A Menace to Society – Bill Baird, Alexis Greene, Winter 2009
MILK and Recruiting for Rights, Eleanor J. Bader, Winter 2009
Judith A. Little, reviewed by Mahin Hassibi, Winter 2009
Poems by Diane Lockwood, Lois Rosen, Marge Piercy and Annie Finch, Winter 2009
Tapping Our Creative Selves for Social Change, Jessica T. Solomon, Winter 2009
The Art Perspective, Joyce Kozloff, curated by Linda Stein, Winter 2009
Our Architecture Ourselves, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Winter 2009
Tapping Our Creative Selves for Social Change, Jessica T. Solomon, Winter 2009
On the Subway with Tillie, Rhea Hirshman, Winter 2009
Art and Politics, Interpretations by Women, Linda Stein, Fall 2008
Martha Rosler’s Art, Linda Stein, Fall 2008
Whatever Happened to Nora?, Alexis Greene, Fall 2008
“Daughter”, The New Face of War, monologue by Cassandra Medley, Fall 2008
Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women, Ariel Dougherty, Fall 2008
Poems by Kirsten Rian and Juditha Dowd, Fall 2008
Poetry, Broken Box by Christine Stark, Summer 2008
Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt and Erin Whitfield, Summer 2008
Does Working Girls Still Work? Ariel Dougherty, Summer 2008
“Ruined” by Lynne Nottage Links War, Horror and Prostitution, A Preview, Alexis Greene, Summer 2008
Poems by Gale Jackson, Spring 2008
Suzanne Lacy’s 1974 Project on Prostitution, Linda Stein, Summer 2008
Linda Stein’s Sculpture Envisions Empowerment for Women with HIV-AIDS, Spring 2008
“In the Continuum” Tells Women’s Missing HIV Stories, Alexis Greene, Spring 2008
No Place Left to Bury the Dead, Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic by Nicole Itano, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, May 2008
ARTRAGEUS: Fighting Breast Cancer through Art, Winter 1999
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
The Sound of Women in Music, Albert Innaurato, Winter 1999
Maria Callas: THE OPERA, Phyllis Chesler, Winter 1999
A Whole New Ball Game, Anngel Delaney, Winter 1999
New Twists to Old Tales, feminist children's books, reviewed by Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 1999
The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World, by Charlene , Fall 1998
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
Fountain of Youth: For Men Only, Molly Haskell, Fall 1998
Brave New Girls, Debbie Stoller, Fall 1998
Memories of Seduction, Marilyn Stasio, Fall 1998
Poetry Redux, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1998
Enduring Women, Anngel Delaney, Fall 1998
Rosary V. Ovary, Ann Petifer, Fall 1998
Luisa Vidal: Painted Like a Man, Disappeared Like a Woman, Marcy Rudo, Summer 1998
To Be Male or Female, That is the Question, Marilyn Stasio, Summer 1998
Infant Mortality in America, Michelle McDonald, Spring 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
How We Got Rid of the Bloody Corsets, Anngel Delaney, Spring 1998
Gaining Face: The Art of Judy Schavrien, Jennifer Kay Hood, Winter 1998
The Women of Henry James, Molly Haskell, Winter 1998
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
Do Women and Children Have a Prayer?, Carter Heyward, 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
Meeting the Ghost of Hamlet's Father, Carolyn Gage, Fall 1997
Get Reel! Feminists Refocus Film, Molly Haskell, Summer 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
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, Summer 1997
News Coverage of Violence Against Women by Marian Myers, reviewed by Louise Armstrong, Summer 1997
Some Couch Potatoes Are More Equal to Others, Carol Vinzant, Summer 1997
Thou shalt not complain about anything I might have to fix, Marge Piercy, Summer 1997
Beyond Nostalgia: Rethinking the Goddess, Judith S Antonelli, Summer 1997
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
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
The Mirror Has Two Faces, Kathy Maio, Spring 1997
Tara and Other Lies, Margaret Michell and the real Rhett Butler, Carolyn Gage, Spring 1997
What Women Want by Patricia Ireland, reviewed by Carolyn G Heilbrun, Winter 1997
Nothing Still About Life, paintings by Julie Heffernan, Winter 1997
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
I Am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women in Their Own Words, Dana Carpenter and Woody Winfree, Spring 1997
Bad Girls: Moll Flanders and Striptease, Kathy Maio, Fall 1996
Eyes Right! Chip Berlet ed, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, Fall 1996
The Power of Beauty by Nancy Friday, reviewed by Lynn Wenzel, Fall 1996
Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, reviewed by Sally Owen, Fall 1996
Like Mother, Like Daughter, photographs by Stephanie Welsh, Fall 1996
Push by Sapphire, reviewed by Sally Owen, Fall 1996
Equestrian Equality, Norine Dworkin, Fall 1996
Antonia, Anne and Oscar, Kathy Maio, Summer 1996
An Artist Takes Stock, Sue Coe, Summer 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
Rain Without Thunder, John Stoltenberg, Spring 1996
How to Make An American Quilt, Linda Krauss, Spring 1996
Where Feminism Rocks, Margaret R. Saraco, Spring 1996
Personal twists on public art: NOT JUST ANOTHER MAN ON A HORSE, Arlene Raven, Spring 1996
The Appeal of Fundamentalism, Frances Kissling, Winter 1996
The Seduction of Certainty, Losing Feminist Daughters to Orthodoxy, Andrea Gurwitt, Winter 1996
Stephen King, Psychological Crossdresser, Fall 1995
The World According to Soaps, Elaine Rapping, Fall 1995
George Sand at Nohant, Erica Abeel, Summer 1995
Talking Back to the News, Sharon Rosenthal, Summer 1995
Power Babes & Victim Feminists, Elaine Rapping, Summer 1995
For Two Women Shot to Death in Brookline, Massachusetts, Marge Piercy, Summer 1995
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, Special Section, Spring 1995
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Carolyn Gage, Special Section, Spring 1995
Re-Imagining God: Are We Made in Her Image? Lou Ann Matossian, Special Section, Spring 1995
Unfurling a Maestrapeace, A Monumental Mural in San Francisco, Diana Scott, Winter 1995
You Saw It Here First, the art of breast-cancer survivor Matuschka, Winter 1994
Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Art, Arlene Raven, Fall 1994
Why Roseanne Rivets Us, Elaine Rapping, 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
Is The Piano A Feminist Film? "Yes" by Rebecco Shugrue, "No" by Carolyn Gage, Summer 199
Crowd on the Couch, Consciousness-Raising on TV Talk Shows, Elaine Rapping, Spring 1994
Love Means No Score, Monica Seles Betrayed, Cindy Shmerler, Spring 1994
Searching for Mary, Virginity as Metaphor, Elizabeth Larsen, Winter 1994
A Body of Stories, Dance Theater, Healing, and Empowerment-A Review, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Fall 1993
Oscar "Honors" Women?, Elaine Rapping, Fall 1993
Sex Crimes, Circulation, and Sales, Interview with Helen Benedict, Fred Pelka, Fall 1993
How the Media Distorts Women's Progress, Elayne Rapping, Summer 1993
Let's get "Serious," The Attack on Madonna Scholarship, Laurie Ouellette, Spring 1993
Desperately Seeking Madonna, the Feminist, bell hooks, Spring 1993
Fear and Loathing Deconstructed, An Essay on Gloria Steinem's Revolution From Within, Naomi Wolf, Fall 1992
You Can Go Home Again, Interview with Writer Melissa Fay Greene, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 1992
How the Media Slants the Message and Other Reportorial Sins, Laura Sydell, Summer 1992
Got to Get This Off My Chest, An Artist Explores the Beauty of Her One-Breasted Self, Matuschka, Winter 1992
Reel Feminism vs. Real Feminism, Feminist Film in the '90s, Leora Tanenbaum, Winter 1992
Torturing Women as Fine Art: Why Some Women and Men are Boycotting Knopf, Robert Brannon, Fall 1991
Torturing Women as Fine Art: Why Boycotting Booksellers is a Bad Idea, Marjorie Heins, Fall 1991
Geez, Are We Really That Bad? Women in the Media, Nearly Invisible, Junior Bridge, Spring
1991
"Dreamworlds," How the Media Abuses Women, interview with Prof. Sut Jhally, Fred Pelka, Winter 1991
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, by Eleanor J. Bader, Vol 14 Spring 1990
A Conversation: the Rev Beatrice Blair and Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985
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