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By Timothy D. Lytton; Harvard University Press, 2008, 286 pp. Twenty-five years ago residents of Henry, Louisiana were stunned to discover that…
Eleanor J. Bader
Eleanor J. Bader is a Brooklyn, New York-based freelance writer who focuses on domestic social issues and resistance movements.
By Jennifer Baumgardner; Akashic Books, 2008, 250 pp. Amy Hagstrom Miller, owner of four reproductive health centers in Texas, tells every patient…
A film by Micki Dickoff & Tony Pagano Emmy award-winning filmmaker Micki Dickoff was 17 in 1964, the year Freedom Summer sent…
Words of Choice doesn’t literally hit readers upside the head to shake some sense into them, but it comes close. Based on…
Cambridge, MA, South End Press, 2007, 196 pp. My husband tells me that when heterosexual men talk about women in the…
In the early 1980s, anti-abortion forces began to heed criticism that their reverence for the fetus came at the expense of women.…
A s reproductive rights activists across the U.S. gather to commemorate the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, they’ll…
I t is obvious that nothing good is happening domestically on reproductive rights. Internationally, however, a small bright spot appeared in mid-February…
Need inspiration in these grim political times? If you’re in New York City, head to Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood and walk to…
W hen Annie Tummino went on vacation two years ago, she forgot to take her birth control pills for several days. Despite…