TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Then & Now
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Police Beat Scholarly Treasure On Our Terms Action! Camera! 1 Million Sisters Freeing the Survivors Stopping New York Sex Ad-dicts Short Takes, Calendar Calendar	Faceless in Gaza? Señora Minister Feminist Polygamy?! Uneasy Lies the Head The Hope of Darfur Wangari’s Words Short Takes
FEATURES
Cover Story Voices Carry In honor of the magazine’s 35th anniversary, we asked a variety of women from across the country, and around the globe, to reflect on feminism and Ms. How have the movement and the magazine changed their lives? The Triumphs of Title IX Women’s educational equity turns 35, and there’s plenty to celebrate.
Scaling the Ivory Towers | CARYN MCTIGHE MUSIL Title IX opened the floodgates of opportunity for women in colleges, graduate and professional schools, launching them into the careers of their dreams. Schoolgirl Dreams | JENNIFER HAHN Today girls take “shop,” ace math, and fend off sexual harassers, thanks in no small part to Title IX. Back to the Land | DELTHIA RICKS “Recovering politician” Carol Moseley Braun now applies her progressive values to healthy food. Air Time | L.S. KIM A media scholar examines how feminists have impacted mainstream media from without and within—but reminds us we still have a long way to go.
DEPARTMENTS
Money Vote With Your Purse | MARTHA BURK Time for women to put their money where their political hopes are. Health Sharper Focus? | DR. SUSAN LOVE AND SUE ROCHMAN Women should demand more inventive breast-cancer research. Excerpt Prophet of Peace | SUZANNE BRAUN LEVINE AND MARY THOM In their new book about Bella Abzug, authors and former Ms. editors Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom highlight Abzug’s involvement in the peace movement. Memoir Flower Grandma’s Secret | SUSAN WICKLUND A heroic abortion provider divulges her career to her grandmother— who has a secret of her own.	Book Reviews Ronnie Steinberg on Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Joy James on Silja J.A. Talvi’s Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System Gail Dines on Robert Jensen’s Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity Gail Tsukiyama on Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers R. Dianne Bartlow on Joanna Bourke’s Rape: Sex, Violence, History Bookmarks Great reads for fall 2007 DVD Watch Four fantastic films for home viewing Backtalk The Bra That Never Burned | Donna Brazile Even the media’s biggest myth couldn’t dissuade this feminist No Comment