by Martha Coventry Sexual conformity at the point of a knife is being forced on women whose genitals are declared not “normal” — with devastating results Big clitorises aren’t allowed in America. By big, I mean over three-eighths of an inch for newborns, about the size of a pencil eraser. Tiny penises, under one inch, […] The post The Tyranny of the Esthetic Surgery’s Most Intimate Violation first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
by Rita Nakashima Brock In the mid-1990s, Asian feminists concerned about the sexual exploitation of children and women and the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS urged Susan Thistlethwaite and me to write a book about the sex industry. We traveled to six Asian countries and to major cities in the U.S., interviewing sex workers, anti-prostitution activists, […] The post Religious Repugnance Obscures Need for Sex Work Decriminalization first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
by Carolyn Gage ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world’s champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to align herself with any of the women’s reform movements of her day, including suffrage. Who should have understood better the need for the bloomer costume than the woman who made a career of slogging through […] The post Why Annie Got Her Gun first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
By Lori Adelman In her influential 1938 essay “Three Guineas,” Virginia Woolf portrayed war as an expression of male power and self-interest. “If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country,” she warned, “let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot […] The post Fighting to Gratify a Sex Instinct? War Attitudes Vary by Gender first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
By Elizabeth Creely January 19, 2012 On the first day of 2012, an abortion clinic in Florida was firebombed. The clinic is now out of business. The arsonist, a man named Bobby Joe Roberts, told police that he had a “strong disbelief in abortion.” Bobby Joe is a part of a nationwide anti-choice choir that […] The post Occupying the Air: Banner Wave Truths about Abortion & Rights first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
ALARM BELLS ARE SOUNDING THROUGHOUT THE nation over the phenomenon of the absentee father. And with good reason – though not the reasons usually given by newspaper writers, their psychologist and sociologist sources, or “family values” preachers. The single most terrible thing about female-headed households is their poverty. Does every child need a father? Increasingly, […] The post IS A BAD DAD BETTER THAN NO DAD? The myth of the male role model by Olga Silverstein first appeared on ...| On The Issues Magazine
Pioneer, visionary, feminist, mentor, revolutionary, woman of the people, principled politician. She had a great heart and extraordinary energy – and the courage always to speak truth to power. Comrade and friend, she was always right ON THE ISSUES: “I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women are good […] The post Zen and the Art of Motherhood first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
As the founder of Choices Women’s Medical Center, today a comprehensive women’s health facility that I began as a small abortion clinic 44 years ago, I have consistently been in the crosshairs of an always-intense and sometimes murderous battle aimed at both providers and women. My longtime friend and associate, a skilled and loving abortion […] The post April 2015: It Can’t Happen Here? But It IS! first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler Racism is real and it is ugly but so is sexism. Who has been fined and “clipped” for calling women “hoes,” “sluts,” “bitches,” “ball busters?” How many RAP artists and Hollywood people have been challenged, publicly exposed, fined, and fired from their own companies for buying the sexual services of a […] The post Down With NBA Racism! Sexism, ”Who Cares?” first appeared on On The Issues Magazine.| On The Issues Magazine
by Ariel Chesler I had the privilege and honor of being with my wife in the delivery room for the birth of both of our daughters. I shared in the emotions, both high and low, during her labor, and experienced the fear and joy of welcoming new life. As painful as it might have been| On The Issues Magazine - A Magazine of Feminist, Progressive Thinking
