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View Entire Issue in Pdf Format EKLE HO! ON JUJ CI O.J. New & Recent Books from NYU PRESS Feminist Nightmares: SOJOURNER SUFFRAGE Women at Odds TRUTH & BEYOND Feminism and the Problem of INrMtNATKMAI IIMIM.-I I'l HSI'BI NH Slave, Prophet Legend Sisterhood EDITED BY SUSAN WEISSER AND JENNIFER FLEISCHNER As feminism grows increasingly diverse, the time has come to ask a painful and frequently avoided question: what does it mean for women to oppress women? 384 pages •".._"-<-v.j£fii I ISBN: 0-8147-2620-8 / $18.95 paper fi.liteJ by ( .roliiic l>..kv CARLETON MABEE Ewith Subdn MabeOe Newhouse •I. 1........ Nolan • 1 ince 1988, Genders has presented inno- Sojourner Truth Suffrage and Beyond Svative theories of gender and sexuality Slave, Prophet, Legend International Feminist Perspectives in art, literature, history, music, TV, and CARLETON MABEE EDITED BY CAROLINE DALEY AND MELANIE film. As New York University Press WITH SUSAN MABEE NEWHOUSE DOLAN assumes its publication, the journal that "This first-rate biography presents us with a This political history of suffrage on a global has always been on the cutting edge of heroine considerably more interesting- more scale brings together such eminent scholars as gender studies is taking on a new shape— original, more powerful- than the personality Nancy Cott, Ellen Dubois, and Carole from triannual journal to biannual anthol- sentimentalists have often portrayed." Pateman. ogy in book form. —The New Yorker 380 pages / 10 illustrations ISBN: 0-8147-1871-X / $19.95 paper 320 pages / 20 illustrations Sexual Artifice ISBN: 0-8147-5525-9 / $16.95 paper Persons, Images, Politics EDITED BY ANN KIBBEY, KAYANN SHORT, Forthcoming in April AND ABOUALI FARMANFARMAIAN Lesbian Erotics Collectively explores the art of construct- EDITED BY KARLA JAY ing gender in symbolic media images, poetry, photography, montage, dramatic "A very great gift: compelling, complex, coura- identity politics, and contemporary femi- geous, and stunning. Everyone interested in nism itself. love and lust, passion and power, history and Genders #19 literature, will want to read Karla Jay's timely, 312 pages / 21 illustrations arousing, important anthology." ISBN: 0-8147-4651-9 / $17.95 paper —Blanche Wiesen Cook Author of Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. I Lesbian Erotics is the first anthology to investi- Eroticism and gate the cultural production of sexually Containment charged images of lesbians in film, law, litera- Notes From the Flood Plain ture, and popular culture in general. EDITED BY CAROL SIEGEL AND ANN 320 pages / 6 illustrations Will You Be Mother? KIBBEY ISBN: 0-8147-4225-4 / $17.95 paper Addresses social and cultural attempts to Women Who Choose to Say No contain eroticism by delineating the The Prostitution of JANE BARTLETT perimeters of gender. Based on over fifty interviews with women, Genders #20 Sexuality Will You Be Mother? explores the personal and 340 pages KATHLEEN BARRY public implications of the pressure society ISBN: 0-8147-7999-9 / $17.95 papeper "This is a brave and brilliant book—and con- puts on women to have children and offers a stitutes a quantum leap forward for global challenging critique of the prevalent belief that feminist theory." motherhood is a natural state for women and —Robin Morgan that childless women are somehow incomplete. 352 pages 233 pages ISBN: 0-1847-1217-7 / $24.95 cloth ISBN: 0-8147-1245-2 /15.95 paper NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS 70 Washington Sq. S., New York, NY 10012 • Tel: 1-800-996-NYUP • Fax 212-995-3833 page 33 COLUMNS J'ACCUSE! HOFFMAN FRONT LINES SPECIAL SECTION: 13 3 2 Haitian women testify WHOSE GOD IS IT Tragedy, American-Style against military rapists ANYWAY' By Laura Flanders WIN SOME/ MALE VIRGINS, RAPPING BLOOD LOSE SOME OTI DIALOGUE 9 6 DO FEMINISTS NEED COVENANTS, AND Raw Law: TO LIBERATE FAMILY VALUES Watching Court TV ANIMALS, TOO? 25 Inside America's fastest FEEDBACK 18 8 Carol Adams' holistic growing men's movement CHESLER philosophy includes By John Stcltcnberg 11 stewardship of the earth Rape in High Places THE SECOND BOOK REVIEWS 45 PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S COMING OF ANCESTORS JOAN OF ARC 30 TALKING 22 FEMINIST CUTTING A revealing look at An irreverent re-visioning by 40 SOME SLACK anti-suffragist propaganda 60 By Patricia Riley Dunlap playwright Carolyn Gage Hair Daze: To Shave or Not to Shave? Bitch, Bitch, Bitch POLAND'S MORNING RE-IMAGINING By Olivia James By Ellen Snortland AFTER GOD 36 33 The fight to regain Are we made in reproductive rights Her image? ON THE COVER By Lou Ann Matossian By Peggy Simpson Photograph of playwright Carolyn Gage OVERWORKED? by Linda J. Russell OVERWHELMED? 42 These artists understand By Arlene Raven contentON THE ISSUES • SPRING 1995 ^VOLUME IV NUMBER sTWO FRONT LIMES ISSUES VOL. IV • NO. 2 SPRING 1995 Publisher/ Editor in Chief MERLE HOFFMAN Editor ROIUnil SANDROFF RONNI SANDROFF Executive Editors JULIA KACAN JOHN STOLTENBERG Silver Lining Editor at Large PHYLLIS CHESLER Special Projects Advisors ANNE MOLLECEN SMITH Department JOY SILVER Book. Review Editor NINA MEHTA Assistant Editors KAREN AISENBERC SUZANNE LEVINE Contributing Editors JILL BENDERLY ositive thinking is my trademark, so CHARLOTTE BUNCH VINIE BURROWS quite a number of folks who haven't called in years rang up after IRENE DAVALL the November elections hoping to hear a few encouraging words. BELL HOOKS Could I put a positive spin on the Republican sweep of federal and state gov- FLO KENNEDY P FRED PELKA ernments? Is there any hope for protecting (no less advancing) women's gains ELAYNE RAPPING in a climate in which inflammatory anti-abortion rhetoric encourages and HELEN M. STUMMER exonerates terrorist murders at women's health clinics? Art Director JOY TOLTZIS MAKON In searching for something upbeat to say (if these colleagues wanted to be Advertising and Sales Director more depressed they would have called someone else), I found myself talking CAROLYN HANDEL about "J' Accuse!", Laura Flanders' stirring piece on women in Haiti who had Circulation/Business Consultant the courage to testify about political rape in the days following Aristide's return ANNE S. KEATING to power. The force of speaking truth against injustice should not be underesti- mated. (For more proof, read Phyllis Chesler's personal account, "Rape in High Places.") ON THE ISSUES The Progressive Woman's I was also able to point to several other pieces in this issue that document the Quarterly: a feminist, humanist magazine of critical extraordinary influence feminist thinking continues to wield. It has reached thinking, dedicated to fostering collective responsibility for positive social change. and breached the fortress of mainstream religious institutions, which Lou Ann ON THE ISSUES The Progressive Woman's Quarterly Matossian describes in "Re-Imagining God." It has gained a foothold in the (ISSN 0895-6014) is published quarterly as an justice system (see Elayne Rapping's "Raw Law: Watching Court TV"). And it informational and educational service of CHOICES Women's Medical Center, Inc., 97-77 Queens is bubbling to the surface in Eastern Europe (read Peggy Simpson's "Poland's Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11374-3317. Morning After"). Unsolicited Manuscripts: All material will be read by the editors. For return, enclose a self-addressed, But there is no denying that today's conservatives and the religious right are stamped envelope with proper postage. Articles should highly effective in mobilizing a constituency and in both coopting and demo- not be more than 2,000 words. All editing decisions mzing feminist ideas. We think it important to see what we can learn from are at the discretion of the editors. Feminist cartoons are also acceptable under the same provisions. ON THE their successes. John Stoltenberg analyzes the appeal of Promise Keepers, ISSUES does not accept fiction or poetry. America's fastest-growing men's movement, in "Male Virgins, Blood Advertising accepted at the discretion of the Covenants, and Family Values." And, in "Phyllis Schlafly's Ancestors," historian publisher. Acceptance does not imply endorsements. Publisher's Note: The opinions expressed by Patricia Riley Dunlap looks at the anti-women's suffrage propaganda of the contributors and by those we interview are not early 20th century: of interest because so many of the techniques (romanticiza- necessarily those of the editors. ON THE ISSUES The tion of woman's role; ridicule of feminists) are still used today, and inspiring Progressive Woman's Quarterly is a forum where women may have their voices heard without censure because the well-financed conservatives did, finally, fail to stem the movement or censorship. for female suffrage. Subscription Information: 1 year $14.95; 2 years $24.95; 3 years $34.95. Institutional rate: Add $10 first We hope our readers will find ON THE ISSUES a source of personal inspira- year, S5 each additional year. Add $4 per year for tion in these difficult times. 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