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Patient Power - The Reluctant Revolution, Merle Hoffman, Fall 2011
What Every Woman Should Know, Susie Cagle, Fall 2011
No Stopping: From Pom-Poms to Saving Women's Bodies, Carol Downer, Fall 2011
Dirty Down There: The Selling of "Feminine" Products, Lu Bailey, Spring 2011, Cafe
Mother Nature Gets Naughty: Eco-Friendly Sex Toys, Elizabeth Black, Spring 2011
Message in BPA Baby Bottles: Don't Mess with Moms, Margie Kelly, Spring 2011
A Tale of Two Nursing Mothers, Chanda Chevannes, Spring 2011
Life’s Precious Trio: Women, Water and Health, Elayne Clift, Spring 2011
Little Girl Lost: Early Puberty Hides Environmental Injustice, Michelle Chen, Spring 2011
Snipping Pink Sentimentality: Persisting on the Whys of Breast Cancer, Eleanor Bader, Spring 2011
Unstoppable, and, when necessary, disruptive: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Spring 2011
Dared to challenge a powerful industry: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Karen Charman, Spring 2011
Glamorous, progressive, campy, and radical: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Jennifer Baumgardner, Spring 2011
She convinced me: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Leora Tanenbaum, Spring 2011
It's taken me three years: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Cindy Pearson, Spring 2011
The complexity of human relationships: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Judy Norsigian, Spring 2011
Extraordinary spirit alive in new activists: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Theresa Noll, Spring 2011
Questioning the "hard" in hard data: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Merle Hoffman, Spring 2011
A Miracle of Networking and Spunk: A Tribute to Barbara Seaman, Molly M. Ginty, Spring 2011
Nuclear Revival? Lessons for Women from the Three Mile Island Accident, Karen Charman, Spring 2011
Dirty Down There: The Selling of "Feminine" Products, Lu Bailey, Spring 2011, Cafe
On the Frontlines: A Counselor Must Address a Gauntlet of Lies, Mary Lou Greenberg, Spring 2010
Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education, Rev. Rebecca Turner, Spring 2010
Indie Music Groups Share Sex Positivity, Georgia Kral, Spring 2010
With the Understanding of Ghandi, Aminatou Put Her Life on the Line, Barbara Becker Winter 2010
Mahin Hassibi, Visionary Ideas, Thinking Out Loud, The Editors, Winter, 2010
Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti, Mary Lou Greenberg, Winter 2010
Convictions to Action: Lessons From Margaret Sanger, Gloria Feldt, Winter 2010
Healthcare Compromise: Low-Income Women Get Bumped, Jen Nedeau, Fall 2009
The Next Seven Generations: Reclaiming Healthy Sexuality for Native Youth, Jessica Yee, Fall 2009
Teens and Indian Health Service: Saving Both, Resa Crane Bizzaro, Fall 2009
Exclusive: Women of Color Push Boundaries on Reproductive Justice, Natalie Bell, Fall 2009
The First of all Liberties: Making Health Care Meet All Women's Needs, Eesha Pandit, Fall 2009
Trans Health Care Is a Life and Death Matter, Eleanor J. Bader, Summer 2009
Teaching Daughters About Lollipop Politics, Margot Mifflin, Spring 2009
Shaping Sexual Futures On a Budget, Donna Schaper, Spring 2009
Know Thy Clitoris, Rebecca Chalker, Spring 2009
Activists Boost Female Health Empowerment, Eleanor J. Bader, Spring 2009
Taking a Stand on Hospitals, and Meaning It, Lois Uttley, Spring 2009
Taking Multimedia Action to Stop HIV-AIDS in Youth, Simon Fisher, Spring 2009 Cafe
The Plight of Pregnancy, Maternal Mortality in Developing Nations, Sarah Hackley, Spring 2009
Midwifery Reborn: Politicians Take Note, Lesley Cohen, Winter 2009 Café
A Do-Over for Reproductive Justice, Gloria Feldt, Winter 2009 Café
Our Architecture Ourselves, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Winter 2009
Health Care ‘Reform’ Is Not Enough, Susan Yanow, Winter 2009
San Francisco Health Care Clinic Makes Sex Workers at Home, Carol Stuart, Summer 2008
Divide, Conquer and Sell, Merle Hoffman, Summer 2008
Of Victims and Vixens-The Feminist Clash Over Prostitution, Angela Bonavoglia, Summer 2008
Feminist Divisions Cause Real-World Repercussions, Juhu Thukral, Summer 2008
Religious Repugnance Obscures Need for Sex Work Decriminalization, Rita Nakashima Brock, Summer 2008
Female Orgasm Today, the Hite Report’s Research Then and Now, Shere Hite, Summer 2008
On the Frontline of Sex Wars, Carol Leigh, Summer 2008
“It’s Not TV, It’s Sexploitation” Protest Against Home Box Office, Norma Ramos, Summer 2008
Naked Truth, Reality and Fantasy Are (Stripper) Poles Apart, Bernadette Barton, Summer 2008
“How you dress shouldn’t be cause for arrest,” Penelope Saunders, 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
Let’s Change the Equation on Sex and Earning, Mahin Hassibi, Summer 2008
Putting Together Pieces of Sex Work, Gender Inequality, Deadly Consequences, Jane Roberts, Summer 2008
Erotic Laborers Find Outlet in Spread, Nicole Witte Solomon, Summer 2008
Plus ca Change, Merle Hoffman, May 2008
In the US, AIDS Spreads Rapid-Fire and Crosses the Gender Divide, Molly M. Ginty, May 2008
Saving the Next Generation, Nancy Genova, May 2008
What is a Woman Worth? The Global Story is the Feminization of a Pandemic, Marcy Bloom
Break the Silence, End the Stigma, Mary Lou Greenberg, May 2008
“I Don’t Want to Write the Book,” AIDS and Listening to Women, Sharon Walton, May 2008
“In the Continuum” Tells Women’s Missing HIV Stories, Alexis Greene, May 2008
Bad Thoughts, right-wing on HIV/AIDS, May 2008
No Place Left to Bury the Dead, Denial, Despair ad Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic by Nicole Itano, reviewed by Eleanor Bader, May
2008
Once The Silence Has Been Broken, Mehret Mandefro, May 2008
Women with AIDS, Off the Radar Screen, Janine Avril, May 2008
Media Missteps + Misogyny = Death for Women, Mary Lou Greenberg, May 2008
The Down Low Effect, Natalie Bell, May 2008
Time to Rethink Global HIV/AIDS Care, Nicole Itano, May 2008
Global Gag Rule Poses Moral Challenge for US HIV/AIDS Funding, Marjorie Signer, May 2008
Art Still Vital to AIDS Activism, Larry Schulte, May 2008
Not Enough Women Use Web Resources, Cindy Cooper, May 2008
African Women with AIDS Rebuffed for Life-Saving Care, Lisa Vives, May 2008
High Rates of HIV and STDs Show the US is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights, Cynthis Soohoo and Katrina Anderson, May 2008
Talking Shop in the Medical Field: the Unfolding of a Strange New Disease, Mahin Hassibi, May 2008
Having Children when You Have HIV – Still a Problem?, Dr. Ann Boyer, May 2008
Replacing Prozac with Plato, Interview with Lou Marinoff, Merle Hoffman, Winter 1999
Crazy in America, Bill Weiner, Winter 1999
CRAZY IN AMERICA: National Failure, Family Tragedy, by Bill Weiner, Winter 1999
Stop the Pain, Penny Kome, Winter 1998
Research for Your Life: Investigating Your Own Health Care, Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Spring 1998
The Bitter Pill, Leora Tanenbaum, Winter 1998
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
Why Change the World When You Can Have a Prozac Moment?, Mahin Hassibi, Summer 1995
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
Foal Play, Dot Hayes, Fall 1994
Smoke Yourself Thin, Suzanne Levine, Summer 1994
Death Takes the Stage, Merle Hoffman, Spring 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
"Sick? It's Your Own Fault", Fred 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
Why It's a Good Idea, Rebecca Chalker, Spring 1993
Why It's Not, Louise Tyrer, Spring 1993
The Whats Hows And Whys Of Menstrual Extraction, by Rebecca Chalker
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
Women Healers Past & Present: An Historical View of Women in Medicine from Earliest Times to Today, by Beatrice Levin Spring 1992
Isn't It Enough to Make You Scream?, Merle Hoffman, Fall 1991
Critiques of the New Contraceptives: After Norplant, What's Next? Jill Benderly, RU Angry? Rhona Mahoney, RU Sure? Jill Benderly, Summer 1991
Goodbye to White Male Privilege: Women Challenge Health Care Research, Elayne Clift, Winter 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
AIDS IS A Women's Issue, Interview with a Physician with an Introduction by Dr. Mathilde Krim, Co-chair American foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Vol 7 1987
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
Lesbian Health Care: The Forgotten Area of Medicine, Virginia Apuzzo, Vol 5, Winter/Spring 1985
Dr Freud Was Wrong! A Re-Evaluation of Depression in Women, Alexandra Symonds, M.D., Vol 5, Winter/Spring 1985
Medical E.R.A., Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985
Love and Death on 86, Merle Hoffman, Vol 5, 1985
A Hospital is No Place For a Person Who is Ill, Jane Cowles. Ph.D., Vol 5, Winter/Spring 1985
A Quiet Revolution, Lila A. Wallis, MD, Volume 3, 1984
Designing Sex: Playing God, Have Doctors Gone Too Far?, Mahin Hassibi, MD, Summer 1998
The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation, Martha Coventry, Summer 1998
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
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