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Breast Cancer: The Environmental Link
> by The Breast Cancer Fund |
Special Report On Family-Friendly Policies and How The Class Card Gets Played
> by Betty Holcomb |
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| IN THE MAGAZINE: |
The Male Box
Ms. editor Gloria Jacobs engages two feminist writers--Susan Faludi and Braun Levine in candid conversation about men, women, and change. |
Christy's Crusade
The Violence Against Women Act has been put to the test in a landmark case before the Supreme Court. How one young woman's quest for justice took her to the highest court in the land. > by Patrick Tracey |
Confessions of a Recovering Misogynist
A not so good brother describes his struggle to become a better man. > by Kevin Powell |
Ms.Cellaneous:
- What?
- Women to Watch
- Word: Crossover
- Just the Facts |
NEWS:
-Good News, Bad News for East German Women
- Rules of Engagement--Vermont Style
- Bedouin Women Take Charge
- Out in Africa
- Newsmaker: Rebecca Gomperts
- Women Flex Their Union Muscle
- Opinion: Beyond Sanctions
- Exporting Anti-choice
- Beijing +5: From Words to Deeds
- Clippings |
YOUR WORK:
- Special Report On Family-Friendly Policies and How The Class Card Gets Played
- Women's Work: Massage Therapist |
YOUR HEALTH:
-Breast Cancer: The Environmental Link > by The Breast Cancer Fund
- Profile: La Shawn Woodward
- Healthnotes |
BOOKS:
- Shelf Life: Kate Millett
- Reviews
- Bold Type: Helen Zia |
-Editor's Page
-Letters
-Uppity Women: Julia Butterfly Hill
- Comments Please!
- He Says: Dan Savage
-Techno.fem:
- Girl Power for Sale
-Poetry: "Chaos Feary"
- Columns > by Jennifer De Leon, Patricia Smith, and Gloria Steinem
-Making Waves
- No Comment |
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BREAST CANCER:
IS IT THE ENVIRONMENT?
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| For too long now breast cancer research has been dominated by the elusive search for the cure," says Andrea Martin, founder and executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a San FranciscoÐbased group that has launched a major campaign to draw attention to the links between the environment and breast cancer. MORE>> |
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FRIENDLY FOR WHOSE FAMILY?
by Betty Holcomb |
| One might assume that Lynnell Minkins, a single mother of three, would be thrilled to work for Marriott International. Last year, Marriott made Working Mother magazine's list of the 100 best companies for working mothers, largely because it offers flexible work schedules, hot lines to help employees deal with child-care emergencies, and three on-site child-care centers. Minkins, a food server at the San Francisco Marriott, could use that sort of help. But it's not available to her. MORE>> |
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IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE OF MS.
The Male Box
Ms. editor Gloria Jacobs engages two feminist writers--Susan Faludi and Susan Braun Levine in candid conversation about men, women, and change. Plus: an excerpt from Susan Braun Levine's new book!
Confessions of a Recovering Misogynist
A not so good brother describes his struggle to become a better man. > by Kevin Powell |
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Your suitcase is packed, your neighbor is feeding the cat, and you're ready to go. There's only one problem: you suffer from motion sickness. MORE>> |
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Every week, I pick up a copy of The Stranger (a free Seattle weekly paper) and read Dan Savage's sex advice column out loud to my friends MORE>> |
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While the stories of suffragists and reformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House are better known since the advent of women's studies, the history of party women has been neglected until now. MORE>> |
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What do a long-dead President and his slave concubine, the tug-of-war over a little boy, and two current books about men by feminists have in common? MORE>> |
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Sugar and spice and everything nice? Maybe little girl. But other elements--earth, fire, water, air--make a woman who she is. MORE>> |
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Looking out from behind the veil--an Islamic head-covering for the head and face--some feminists see oppression, others, sacred tradition. MORE>> |
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