Ms. WINTER 2003 ISSUE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
National	Global
Silicone's Back Implant Loans Single Moms' Struggle Where's the Poverty Line? Massachusetts Women Take City Hall by the Grassroots YWCA Ousts Patricia Ireland | Did right-wing pressure influence the YWCA?	Fighting Fistula Women and Kids Lose Most in War Rape as Weapon in DRC State Dept. Vet Quits Over Iraq Britain's Tories Turn Feminist? First Women on U.K. High Court Honduran Injustice | When Maria Luisa Borjas became iinternal affairs director of the Honduran police force, she thought she had gotten a chance to root out corruption.
FEATURES
Cover Story Women of the Year Honoring women who made a difference in 2003: Eileen Fisher by Amy Bloom Loune Viaud by Jennifer Margulis Salma Hayek by Anne Stockwell Martha Burk by Mariah Burton Nelson Sima Samar by Abigail Williams Pamela Thomas-Graham by Carol Jenkins Jessica Neuwirth by Stephanie Goldberg Joan Blades by Ellen Hawkes Carla Diane Hayden by Catherine Orenstein Niki Caro by Stacie Stukin Catherine Hamlin, MD (photo by Shaleece Haas) Cheers & Cringes: The Year in Review From abstinence to Kobe, Martha Stewart to Annika Sorentam, what we loved and hated in 2003. 50 Women Who Made A Difference Movers and shakers, teens and grandmas, chess champ and golf pro, surgeon and artist, soldier and hugger - these women, and more, changed our lives in the past year. Sojourner Truth | Sandra Jackson-Opoku Part 2 of a novelist's journey along the path of the great suffragist and abolitionist. (see Fall 2003 for Part 1) Dearest Carolyn | Gloria Steinem The writer, an icon, honors her friend Carolyn Heilbrun, who took her own life at 77.
DEPARTMENTS
Touching History More encounters with women of renown. Passings Astronauts, singers, activists, an athlete, an actor, an ornithologist...we'll miss them. Poetry Salt | Cleopatra Mathis Indoors | Vona Groarke	Book Reviews Gaiutra Bahadur on Samina Ali 's Rainy Days Karen Grigsby Bates on bell hooks' We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity Alizah Salario on Maxine Swann's Serious Girls Bernadette Murphy on Katherine Weber's The Little Women Alexandra Hall on Viginia L. Blum's Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery Keywords by Robin Morgan No Comment