A Letter From the Editor: Turning the Tide
Krista Jacob
Third Wave Feminism and Oprah?
Flippin' the Script
Kimberly Springer
Dang. I hate being used. I guess, y'know, who doesn't, but I'm talking about being used for political expediency. I see it all around me in the news: the historic use of women's bodies as reason to annihilate and destroy in the name of patriarchy and white supremacy. Given that it's a new year, I wanted to get this off my chesty chest before 2001 got too far away because, at the rate we're going, I can see the made-for-tv series "Step on Women's Rights" going into syndication in 2002.
The Feminism of Everyday Life
Melisse Gelula
With so much jingoist rhetoric to rail against in the media and more forms of activism than ever to take up, especially in flag-waving New York City, forming a comprehensive response to the World Trade Center business isn't possible herein. Instead what follows is a litany of quotidian responses by a misbegotten feminist to that day and since.
Get Your Stereotypes Off My Relationship
Elizabeth
We know all those things you think. We've heard them from people we love, we see them in the eyes of strangers, we are forced to think about them everyday.
A Radical Language of Choice
Krista Jacob
Over the past few years, many pro-choice activists, myself included, have become increasingly frustrated with how the abortion issue is depicted in the mainstream.
Good Divorce? Good Gun Fight?
Patti See
"They were made for each other," our mothers cooed at our engagement party. Both of us the youngest of large families, tagalongs, bar rats, head of the class, athletes. Despite our shotgun wedding, our world believed if anyone could make it, we would.
Why I Want to Be the Man in Bed
Martha McCaughey and Christina French
I am a woman, and I often have sex with a man. When I think about all the things I've learned to do to appeal to him and pleasure him, I realized that I, too, would like to be the man in bed. I don't mean, however, that I'd like to be the one with the penis.
Shameless: Reflections on a Sexual Life
Ashley Sovern
Recently I asked a roomful of women to reveal their earliest "sexually forbidden text". In other words, the first sexual materials kept hidden away under the metaphorical mattress.
Third Eye Open
Rhonda Chittenden
I recently interviewed my friend Laura, who lives with her partner Nancy and their son Ian, on the intersecting influences of being a lesbian mother and a feminist. As part of a middle-class White couple living in the suburbs of a mid-sized Midwestern city, Laura's family represents both the integration of queer families into the socio-cultural fabric of mainstream America while offering a progressive, proactive, and empowering model of queer feminist parenting for other women who parent with their female partners.
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Note to Self
Shauna Pomerantz
I was watching a Sex and the City rerun the other day, the one where Carrie gets to be a model and Margaret Cho is the surly fashion director who affectionately calls everyone "fuckette." It was a fantastic episode full of girl power bravery, yet something about the show nagged me to the bone. The fashion stuff was cool. Samantha's naked photo shoot was fine. Charlotte's gay matchmaker routine was innocuous enough. But wait just a minute. What about Miranda? Yes! It was Miranda's plotline that got my thigh-high socks in a knot.
An Eye for the Ladies
Alia Levine
If we are so bold as to be gay and honest with ourselves in a world largely constructed against us, why can't we get up the nerve to ask a cute girl to dance? We've come all this way (baby) and we can't even sidle up to a girl and ask her to shake her shimmy. I asked a handful of queer women if they'd ever Made The Move.
Book Reviews: Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution, Reviewed by Hanne Blank
With Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution, Paula Kamen brings a long-awaited dose of perspective to the complex and often controversial topic of younger women's sexual lives, relationships, and behaviors. As a thirty-something myself, I've been frustrated by the opportunism of the press when discussing the sex lives of the so-called "third wave" generation.
Jane Hocus, Jane Focus: An Introduction to Jane Sexes It Up, Lisa Johnson
Jane Sexes It Up--a book of confessions and kinks--begins with this recognition of the very real limits on what a woman can say about her sexuality without putting herself in physical danger and/or social exile.
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