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Afghan and Rwandan Women Entrepreneurs Seek Peace through Busines, Dr. Terry Neese, Summer 2011
Ending Wartime Rape Means Ending War and Patriarchy, Judith Avory Faucette, Summer 2011
No Women, No Peace: Time to Change Peace Building, Shelagh Daley
Gender Values: The Costs of War, Susan Feiner 2011
The Cruel Lie: Bombing To Liberate Women, Debra Sweet Summer 2011
A Feminist Looks at Masculine Rage and the Haditha Massacre, Kathleen Barry, Summer 2011
Unlocking the Quiet Courage of Afghans, Dr. Sakena Yacoobi Winter 2010
Women Hold Demonstrations for Liberation in Iran and Afghanistan, Carol Downer, Winter 2010
Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi: End Male Power Structures, Janet Benshoof, Winter 2010
In the Act Alone: German Resistance to the Nazi Movement, Cynthia L. Cooper, Winter 2010
Anabella: Guatemalan Leader Deploys Stilettos Against Corruption, Gail Kriegel, Winter 2010
Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti, Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 2010
Women Hold Demonstrations for Liberation in Iran and Afghanistan, Carol Downer, Winter 2010
Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence, Theresa Braine, Winter 2010
With the Understanding of Ghandi, Aminatou Put Her Life on the Line, Barbara BeckerWinter 2010
Activists Boost Female Health Empowerment, Eleanor J. Bader, Spring 2009
Listen to Iraqi Women, Yifat Susskind, Spring 2009 Cafe
The Plight of Pregnancy, Maternal Mortality in Developing Nations, Sarah Hackley
Justice Still Awaits Terror Victims in Algeria, Malika Zouba, Fall 2008
Terror in Our Homes, Violence Against Women in Zimbabwe, Tawanda Mudzonga, Fall 2008
The War I Know, Sidelined, A to Z, Carolyn Gage, Fall 2008
The Terror of Motherhood in Somaliland and Women’s Rights to Safe Care, Edna Adan Ismail, Fall 2008
Honor Killings and Human Bombs, Abuses Old and New, Jan Goodwin, Fall 2008
When Revolution in China Elevated Women and Took Prostitution Off the Market, Mary Lou Greenberg, Summer 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
What is a Woman Worth? The Global Story is the Feminization of a Pandemic, Marcy Bloom, May 2008
We Stand With Iranian Women, Spring 2008
Enough Waiting, Mary Lou Greenberg, Spring 2008
Iranian Women Today – Fighting Two Enemies, Mary Lou Greenberg, Spring 2008
Cuba: Fidelistas and Feministas: Cuban Women in Crisis, Amy Martin, Winter 1999
Iran: Notes from the Interior, Merle Hoffman, Spring 1998
Algeria Examined: Tens of Thousands Dead and It's Barely News, Laura Flanders, Spring 1998
Afghanistan: Buried Alive, Afghan Women Under the Taliban, Jan Goodwin, Summer 1998
Okinawa: Phallic Imperialism, Way Off Base, Rick Mercier, Winter 1997
Rwanda: Justice Denied, Jan Goodwin, Fall 1997
Israel: Wailing at the Wall, Phyllis Chesler, Fall 1997
South Africa: Warrior Healers of South Africa, Merle Hoffman
Bosnia: A Nation of Widows, Jan Goodwin, Spring 1997
Nepal: Prisoners of Biology, Jan Goodwin, Fall 1966
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
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: 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, Betsy Swart, 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
Suffer the Little Children and Their Mothers, Michael Myerson, oppression and safety net both gone, Fall 1992
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
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
Greenham Common, UK: The Uncommon Women of Greenham, told by Leslie Webster, written by Ginna D. Rose, Summer 1991
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
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
Survivors: Berlin 1990, Merle Hoffman, Summer 1990
Palestine/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
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
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
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