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Angela Bonavoglia
Angela Bonavoglia is an award-winning journalist and author who covers women’s issues. Her feature articles, investigative reports, essays, and profiles have appeared in many venues, including Ms. (former contributing editor), the NY Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, The Nation, Salon, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Newsday, and the Huffington Post. Her books include The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion (a classic oral history, with a foreword by Gloria Steinem, that features Bonavoglia’s interviews with such celebrities and authors as Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Grace Paley, Rita Moreno, and Jill Clayburgh, as well as with activists, clerics and medical providers about their experiences with abortion), and, most recently, Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church. For more, go to: www.angelabonavoglia.com
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Easter Sunday Paradox: Father Roy Must Recant, But Pedophile Priests Go Free
April 22, 2011 by Angela Bonavoglia · 3 Comments
Joining the now-excommunicated women who have stepped forward to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests, the latest victim of the Church’s strong-armed resistance towards women’s equality is internationally beloved Father Roy Bourgeois. The Church hierarchy, in its treatment of Bourgeois, is showing that it considers any advocacy of women’s ordination to be much, much worse [...]
Living Lopsided in a Symmetrical World
October 20, 2010 by Angela Bonavoglia · 3 Comments
When I first saw the silicon breast shells that I had bought at My Secret mastectomy boutique on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for sale at Lord and Taylor, I was stunned. One of those shells—called in medical parlance a prosthesis—had been a secret part of my life for years, from the time I surrendered half of my [...]
Bad Shoes and the Author Who Takes Them On
May 20, 2010 by Angela Bonavoglia · 8 Comments
It happened in Milan at a 2008 Prada fashion show. “I was having a panic attack, my hands were shaking,” a runway model recalls. “Some of the girls were crying backstage, they were so scared.” Why the dramatics—An Act of terrorism? An explosion? Had the prime minister been assassinated? No. These women were fearful of [...]
Not Just Boys: Catholic Church Abuse of Women + Girls
April 14, 2010 by Angela Bonavoglia · 16 Comments
In his notorious Good Friday homily, the Pope’s own preacher, Raniero Cantalamessa, talked about the need to end violence against women, which is crucial, but he did so without any acknowledgment of the Church’s own culpability in the abuse, endangerment, and intimidation of women.
