TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
National	Global
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs HERvotes Count Old Tactics, New South Perp Walk for the Pope? Short Takes Calendar	Women as Cargo Reinventing Feminism When Violence Is the Norm Erasing Hate Short Takes
FEATURES
All Guts, No Glory | By Molly M. Ginty It's high time for the U.S. military to support and protect women in combat. Giving Birth to Progress | By Isobel Coleman and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The newly trained midwives of Afghanistan protect women from something more deadly than bombs or bullets: unsafe maternity. Making Change | By Amanda Robb For Anika Rahman, raising funds to end inequality fuels her leadership of the Ms. Foundation for Women. If the Clothes Fit | By Minh-Ha T. Pham If feminists ignore fashion, we cede our power to influence it. Better to harness it for our own political purposes, as our foremothers did.
DEPARTMENTS
Money Rips in the Safety Net | By Martha Burk Frances Perkins would be furious about attacks on Social Security. Women's Studies Ms. Goes Back to School | By Karon Jolna As the magazine approaches 40, it's talking "digital" to the 21st century feminist classroom. Health Birth Control for Men? | By Jessica Mack The half-century quest for male contraception may finally pay off. Poetry Letter to a Young Poet | By Ntozake Shange In this poem from her memoir, the author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf conjures everything from James Brown to land mines in Fallujah.	Book Reviews Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Anita Hill's Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home Jessica Stites on Alice Hoffman's The Dovekeepers Paula Kamen on Ha Jin's Nanjing Requiem Nada L. Stotland on Olga R. Trujillo's The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder Susan McHenry on Amy Alexander's Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention Bookmarks Great reads for Fall 2011 DVD Watch Feminist films available for home viewing. Backtalk Bella, Coretta, Shirley... | BY DONNA BRAZILE What I've gained from mentors I've gladly paid forward No Comment In 2012, Go Forth and Mentor! | By Donna Brazile