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Terror For Women Exists Throughout History, Across Cultures
Honor Killings and Human Bombs: Abuses, Old and New
The Terror of Loving and Losing
Terrorizing the Loved Pets of Women
Anti-Abortion Terror Tactics Take A Toll
Anti-Immigrant Fervor Translates to Terror for Women
The Terror of Motherhood in Somaliland
and Women’s Rights to Safe Care
The Terror-Submission Backlash by Susan Faludi
Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women
The War I Know: Sidelined, A to Z
“Daughter” -- The New Face of War
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Killing Me Softly
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Merle Hoffman
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Terror For Women Exists Throughout History, Across Cultures - by Mahin Hassibi
No woman can feel safe from the vicissitudes of terror experienced by her sex. •Art by Joan Roth
Honor Killings and Human Bombs: Abuses, Old and New - by Jan Goodwin
Imagine the sheer terror of five Pakistani women or the subjection of a Sri Lankan woman used as a terror tool.
The Terror of Loving and Losing - by Cathy Albisa
The worst thing to happen? For some women, it’s the inability to feed their kids.
Gaining Control by Kate Millett
Terrorizing the Loved Pets of Women - by Carol Adams
Battering men brutalize beloved pets to control and manipulate wives and girlfriends.
Anti-Abortion Terror Tactics Take A Toll - by Eleanor Bader
Violence and stigma continue to drain abortion patients and providers in dangerous ways.
©Jana Leo
RAPE NEW YORK - by Jana Leo
Tracing the footsteps of a rapist exposes predation, myths and lies in a book-in-progress. •Art by Jana Leo
Protecting the Human Family by Sally Roesch Wagner
Anti-Immigrant Fervor Translates to Terror for Women - by Melissa Nalani Ross
Racism, sexism and xenophobia put immigrant women at risk of rape, violence and insufferable indignity.
The Terror of Motherhood in Somaliland and Women’s Rights to Safe Care - by Edna Adan Ismail
Why is delivering a baby still killing women in Africa? The shame of maternal mortality.
©Martha Rosler
The Art Perspective- Edited by Linda Stein
Art Editor Linda Stein features Martha Rosler, who is known for placing unsettling images in familiar places. •Art by Martha Rosler
The Terror-Submission
Backlash by Susan Faludi
Media Tools Counter War Violence Against Women - by Ariel Dougherty
War, rape, atrocities: women aim cameras to expose human rights abuses. •With Video
The War I Know: Sidelined, A to Z - by Carolyn Gage
One writer’s Roladex shows that women’s war was raging before Iraq added fuel to the fire.
Theater Artsby Alexis Greene
Whatever happened to Nora? Women’s nightmares of homelessness gain the attention of all-too-few on stage. •Art by Joan Roth
The Poet's Eye - From Poetry Co-Editor Judith Arcana
In poetry by Kirsten Rian and Juditha Dowd, mothers and daughters try to interpret landscapes of pitfalls. •Art by Carol Hunt
Women and the War on Terror: An Unintended Consequence? - by Sallie Bingham
Induced fear seeks to secure subservience, but we can fight against it. •Art by Siona Benjamin
“Daughter” -- The New Face of War - by Cassandra Medley
In a monologue, a parent expresses her grief when a military daughter returns home with life-altering injuries.
From the On The Issues Print Archive
On The Issues: Vol. 9, 1988 Women's Lives Under Padding
by Merle Hoffman
On The Issues Magazine
Vol. 9, 1988
… Upon reflection, there appears to be an enormous amount of male rage in this society One could perhaps theorize a political basis for this rage, that it is fostered by a lack of community, tack of ethical purpose, separation from one's essential humanity, feeling powerless in the personal, impotent in the professional; etc. But the bottom line is that this rage is, more often than not, directed at women … READ FULL STORY-
What is Terror for Women: A Hot Topic In Our Archives
by Mary Lou Greenberg
Much of women's lives has to do with terror - living with it, facing it, and most importantly, overcoming it. The terror of anticipated and actual abuse, both bloody acts and devastating words; terror of bombs and guns in wars of various kinds, in Kosovo, the Congo, the Middle East today, or at the doors of abortion clinics in the U.S.; the terror of not knowing where you and your family will sleep tonight, find food for your children's meals tomorrow, or the fear that they will be shot in neighborhood violence or by the police.