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Beautiful, for a Feminist
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Sometimes, even hardcore feminists find themselves competing in a beauty contest.
Spring 2009
Women in writing groups learn to take seriously their skills, and themselves.
Female resistance to the Nazis. Jewish women doctors who pioneered birth control. Teen sex crisis in comic form.
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A Little Woman Made the World
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A little woman made the worldHer bed,That great round globe.And it didn’t escape the worldThat a little womanLay resting on him.And he grew grasses into her lap,Wrapped her bodyWith leaves... Read more »
Bathing
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Grandma was short and compact as a fire hydrant, with gray wavy hair swept straight back from her face, held with tortoise-shell combs. Her eyelids drooped as if weighted, and her... Read more »
Two Doctors/One Friendship
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The haunting memoir of two survivors who meet in a post-war Polish medical school, and learn in the most devastating way that not all scars are visible, nor can every ailment be treated.
No, Margaret Sanger Wasn’t Jewish
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But an astounding number of doctors who pioneered the 20th century’s birth control movement were Jewish women! Sometimes arrested for promoting contraception and sex-ed in neighborhood clinics, they paved the way for today’s repro-rights activists. Plus… Helen R. Cordes tells us how to mark the 50th anniversary of the Pill.
Partisanas
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Uncovering female resistance to the Nazis, historian Stobl notices a modest self-dismissal: many of these women never identify their profoundly serious, courageous and - yes - defiant behaviors as actual fighting back. They shy away from being labeled heroes.
Love Letter
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A short story, hilarious, poignant and graphic--in every sense--about a moment in middle school when a bat mitzvah-aged girl faced a crisis of sexual identity. Uh-oh. Grown-up, she's exactly the kind of girl she'd insisted she wasn't.
