People are trying to take your community while you are sleeping. -Sharon Hanshaw
Sharon Hanshaw was out of town when Hurricane Katrina hit her lifelong home of Biloxi, Mississippi. She returned t...
Good journalists have long used personal stories, integrating quotes and anecdotes into factual reporting. But the birth of the second wave of feminism—and the recognition that the personal is polit...
In response to a stepped up, aggressive campaign by anti-choice forces in South Dakota, pro-choice advocates are fighting hard to insure victory against the most complete ban on abortion passed anyw...
In four separate TV spots Republican Sen. Jim Talent of Missouri falsely attributes several unflattering quotes about his opponent to the Kansas City Star. Our examination reveals that the quotes ac...
España [f.] nosotras, las ciudades (Spain [f.], We, the Cities) is an exuberant celebration of Spain’s cities through the voices of her women. It is Spain’s contribution to Venice’s 10th Internation...
Amy Berg’s riveting documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, makes it abundantly clear how deeply the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has wounded women. By focusing on two women victims an...
With Joan Blades “there’s no down, you just keep going up and up,” said Carol Jenkins, Women’s Media Center president, introducing the pioneering social activist at a recent WMC journalists’ lunch. ...
As sexually explicit and highly inappropriate exchanges between Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) and a congressional page occupied the headlines last week, the Republican’s “do as I say, not as I do” h...
“The presence of U.S. troops on Philippine soil has always been particularly devastating to women.” This is one of the baldly stated findings of the Women’s Human Rights Delegation to the Philippine...
Last fall, I’d been noticing a lack of female voices in what are supposed to be general-interest—and presumably gender-neutral—magazines. I wanted to find out if men were consistently getting publis...
The life stories of Jessica Brakey and Abeer Al-Janabi unfold a half a world apart. Yet the former Air Force Academy cadet and the dead Iraqi girl are both powerful symbols of women’s experience of sexual assault. The legal tales of both are curiously juxtaposed this fall in the military’s sprawling criminal justice system.