TOP STORIES | WEB EXCLUSIVE

The Super Bowl: No Place for an Anti-Abortion Ad
KIM GANDY ON 02.03.2010

In the past, CBS had a stated policy to reject all message-oriented ads it deemed controversial, including ads from MoveOn.org, PETA, and the United Church of Christ, which dared to suggest that their church would model tolerance ("Jesus Didn't Turn People Away. Neither Do We"). Then came word that this year it had accepted an ad from the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family. more...

Why Women’s Reproductive Freedom Ensures Our Survival
KAVITA N. RAMDAS ON 01.08.2009

Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a major address on newfound U.S. commitment to global reproductive health and family planning. Here, a leader in the field of global women’s rights reflects on what it means. more...

Copenhagen: A Feminist Response
HOLLY TOMLINSON ON 12.22.2009

Renowned ecofeminist activist Vandana Shiva tells Ms. what should have happened at the U.N. climate change conference—and why women’s voices are essential to head off a planetary crisis. more...

Terror in Charlotte
CAROL JOFFE, Ms. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT ON 12.01.2009

"Wanted” posters have appeared in North Carolina, calling two abortion doctors murderers and suggesting that people contact them. They are chilling reminders of posters put up in the 1990s, a time when three abortion providers were murdered. more...

Previous reports:
--Bellevue, Nebraska
--Jackson, Mississippi
--Allentown, Pennsylvania

Taking a Bite Out of Twilight
CARMEN D. SIERING ON 11.18.2009
Ms. questions what Twilight is really teaching young girls. more...

New Moon, Same Old Sexist Story
CARMEN D. SIERING AND KATHERINE SPILLAR ON 11.23.2009
Sure, the film New Moon is breaking box office records, but feminists can’t be too happy about how the latest episode in the Twilight series represents a young woman and her place in the modern world. more...

More Outrage Over Stupak-Pitts
CAROL JOFFE, Ms. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT ON 11.18..2009

“Our medical experts have determined that your life was not in danger and you could have carried the pregnancy to term. And, by the way, you owe us $9,000.” more...

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FROM THE ISSUE | FALL 2009

BREAKING UPDATE: What a Difference a Tested Rape Kit Can Make
NINA BOUTSIKARIS ON 11.23.2009

“Every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted somewhere in the United States. DNA evidence doesn’t forget and it cannot be intimidated….” more...

Bad Habits?
SR. MAUREEN FIEDLER, SL ON 11.24.2009

Over the past year, the Vatican has initiated two chilling investigations of American nuns’ communities. Nuns are not singing “hallelujah.” more...

BREAKING UPDATE: Fear of Feminist Nuns
FREDRIKA THELANDERSSON
It turns out Sister Maureen Fiedler was right in her article Bad Habits?, which appears in the latest issue of Ms., now on newsstands. more...

Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
AUTHOR INTERVIEW BY EVA MCKEND ON 12.04.2009

Author Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant unpacks the stereotype of black woman as superwoman, finding unspoken vulnerabilities under the expected bravado. read interview...

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present By Gail Collins read review...

When Gay People Get Married: What Happens Why Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage By M.V. Lee Badgett read review...

The Year of the Flood By Margaret Atwood read review...

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde read review...