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Powerful Men, Sexual Predation

…in Congress who talk about reproductive rights as if there is some kind of abstract philosophical issue. Ultimately, though, the book is not just about women, or just about feminism….

On the Picket Lines: Defending Abortion Rights

…handed down its ruling on Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services. I was escorting patients into the Northeast Women’s Center, an abortion clinic that sits on the outskirts of Philadelphia, as…

Riding High

…gentile counterparts, continued to rely on a male relative or his surrogate for a livelihood, protection and respectability. Even those who fended for themselves, with rare exceptions, maintained the illusion…

On Class, Identity, and Prejudice

…to ensure reproductive justice; why it’s so hard to slough off shame around having—or not having—money; what kept Jewish women out of good jobs, and more. Money can affect what…

Our Bodies Ourselves

The classic women’s health book. Our Bodies, Ourselves, now in its 35th anniversary edition, has gotten into the hands—and minds—of millions of women. The book, which has sold four million…

RU-486

…voices heard can contact: The Reproductive Health Technologies Project, 1601 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 801, Washington D.C.. 20009, or phone (202) 328-2200 for a packet of information on actions in…

Freshman Year in a Pandemic

…enthusiasm for limiting reproductive choice then they do about disavowing white supremacy. We still argue and form relationships, some intimate and some not. And although we can’t gather in large…

A Notorious Family, Fictionalized

…This struck me as so simplistic as to be cowardly. In the end, the Netanyahus get ahead of Cohen— even in fantasy.   Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler is a folklorist, reproductive rights…

I Sing the Body Asexual

…of sexual liberation. Growing up attending a Jewish Day School, I did not learn in-depth about sexual or reproductive health in a classroom setting — not because my peers were…

Happening

…identified themselves as “less” Jewish. It seems that for the women in Klein’s sample, at least, the more they identified as Jews the worse they felt about themselves! Klein postulates…