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Ire Doctors Going Too Far? BELLA ABZUG REMEMBERED • KATE MILLETT ON AGING OTHE PROGRESSIVN THE WOMAN'ES QUARTERL HUEY • SUMMESR 1998 ning ire Doctors Going Too Far? ESTHETIC TYRANNY SURGERY'S MOST INTIMATE VIOLATION BURIED ALIVE AFGHAN WOMEN UNDER THE TALIBAN "PASSING" LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE BOCK J 4 Books. 4 Bucks. And absolutely, positively no commitment! r-EVEN- THESTARS / ,LOOK i LONESOME, 12-3970. From the 18-3965. A new 56-2640. Covers 53-8519. Learn both 68-3544. From the BOO*! . founder of the Simple collection ot writings everything from food the theories and author of The Living Journal, An on sensuality, allergies to the link practice of this effective Celestine Prophecy, a essential guide for poverty, maturity, between certain foods healing alternative. profound new work. BOOK! simplifying all areas solitude, and more. and cancer prevention. 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The Tyranny of the Esthetic Martha Coventry - 16 Surgery's most intimate violation REFLECTIONS The Poet as Prisoner - Reza Baraheni - 21 pc Language and creative imagination in exile THE ABORTION WARS The Fire This Time - Mary Lou Greenberg - 24 When "pro-life" means death in Birmingham FRONTLINE REPORT Buried Alive - Jan Goodwin - 26 Afghan women under the Taliban SEXUAL POLITICS To Be Male or To Be Female, That Is the Question - Marilyn Stasio - 32 Gender-bending in Shakespeare CHANGES Out of the Loop and Out of Print - Kate Millett - 38 Meditations on aging PORTFOLIO Painted like a Man, Disappeared like a Woman - Marcy Rudo - 42 Luisa Vidal, the daughter of Modernism RACIAL REALITIES "Passing" - Toi Derricotte - 46 Life in black and white FOREVER BELLA In Her Own Words - 62 COLUMNS What's a Feminist To Do? - Merle Hoffman - 5 Zen and the Art of Motherhood - Phyllis Chesler - 8 DEPARTMENTS Feedback - 4 Talking Feminist The Nose Job - Sherryl Kleinman - 10 Loving Long-Distance - Westry Green - 11 Books Airless Spaces by Shulamith Firestone - Reviewed by Phyllis Chesler - 50 What Are We Fighting For? Sex, Race, Class and the Future of Feminism by Joanna Russ Reviewed by Ellen Cole - 51 Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion by John Farrell Reviewed by Jaclyn Geller - 52 Film Women of a Certain Age: The Big 3-0, 4-0 and 5-0 - Molly Haskell - 54 Cover: Illustration by Lou Beach feedback ON THE ISSUES Lack of Outrage created a magazine for women with brains!! Jessica Caudwell - Sacramento, CA In "Hollywood Downsizes Women" [Spring Summer 1998 1998], Molly Haskell states that in 1997, Vol. VII • No. 3 with very few exceptions, film viewers saw Mary Daly not a "Christian" Publisher/Editor-in-Chief countless instances of exploitation and As I made clear in my interview Merle Hoffman abuse of women whisked past their eyes ["Manifesting the Goddess," Spring 1998], I Editor with "hardly a voice raised in protest." am not a Christian. I was deeply offended to Jan Goodwin It seems that with the right to make a be identified as such in the opening para- Art Director film comes the right to strip women of their graphs preceding the articles in the section Sharon Lee Ryder dignity, figuratively and literally. Women are titled "Should the Trinity Be a Quartet?" Editor at Large generally depicted as weak, unstable, inse- I left the catholic church and Christian- Phyllis Chesler cure, and submissive, and their lives almost ity in the early seventies. I have spent the Special Projects Advisor always revolve around a particular man, or better part of the past 35 years exposing and Julia Kagan men in general. Where there is a so-called analyzing gynocidal atrocities perpetrated Managing Editor strong female character, her strength and/or and legitimated by Christianity and other Mary Lou Greenberg independence are usually tempered by a patriarchal religions. Contributing Editors Eleanor Bader, Irene Davall, major character flaw or life crisis: The suc- Also, I am a Radical Elemental (not Katherine Eban Finkelstein, Molly Haskell, cessful, enterprising businesswoman is "Element") Feminist philosopher. Mahin Hassibi, bell hooks, Jane Garland Katz, depicted as callous and unlikable; the free- Mary Daly - Newton Centre, MA Flo Kennedy, Corona Machemer, Julianne Malveaux, thinker is plagued by loneliness and depres- Editor's Note: OTI apologizes for the typo, Fred Pelka, Marge Piercy, Arlene Raven sion, because her independence prevents her and for the mis-identification in the general Research Editor from remaining in relationships with men. introduction to the cover story. Daly was, of Lisa Vincenti There also seems to be a standard nudi- course, correctly identified in her article. Advertising Sales ty clause in all female film contracts. Even Lori Sokol during sex scenes, where nudity is entirely Webmaster Early Returns from Reader Survey Sara Yager relevant, any naked bodies that are shown Editor's Note: Following is a sampling of Assistant to the Publisher are female. Aside from the X-rating a film comments we've received in response to our Donna Matthew risks for a depiction of male nudity (for rea- Reader Survey [Spring 1998]. If you haven't Marketing Director sons I am unable to fathom), perhaps there yet responded, you have until June 30 to do so. Joy Silver is something else behind the lack of male nudity in films: If male actors appeared My reasons for reading OTI: It covers more ON THE ISSUES totally naked, Hollywood's "big" male stars than white women's issues; isn't afraid to The Progressive Woman's Quarterly wouldn't be so big after all.
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