A review of the book “This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor”
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund, with Alan Kesselheim, Public Affairs Books, 2007.…
The Indypendent
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund, with Alan Kesselheim, Public Affairs Books, 2007.…
Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories By Katha Pollitt Random House, 2007 The eleven essays in Nation columnist…
Let’s Hear It for Choice: A Review of the Film “Words of Choice”
Words Of Choice Created by Cindy Cooper Take Ten Productions, 2007 Words of Choice doesn’t literally grab viewers by…
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity By Robert Jensen South End Press, 2007 By Eleanor J. Bader…
Anti-Abortionists See Sonograms as “Windows to the Womb”
By Eleanor J. Bader When Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, a Texas Congressman, addressed the National Right to Life…
Fighting Fundamentalist Pharmacies in Washington State
It should have been simple. Effective July 26, all 1,189 pharmacies — but not individual pharmacists — in Washington…
Art: Jennifer Lew By Eleanor J. Bader When professor Helena Silverstein began researching the impact of parental consent and…
Boyish Girl Meets Girlish Boy: A Review of “She’s not the Man I Married”
Art by Jennifer Lew By Eleanor J. Bader Helen Boyd’s fascinating memoir-cum-social analysis, She’s Not the Man I Married,…
A Miscarriage of Justice for Dominican Immigrant
Shortly after Amber Abreu, a teenaged immigrant from the Dominican Republic, arrived in the United States in 2005, she…
A+ for Identity: A Review of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
NOBODY PASSES: REJECTING THE RULES OF GENDER AND CONFORMITY SEAL PRESS, 2006 BOOKS Growing up, my mother repeatedly told…