TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
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Yes We Can Keeping Council The Ivory Tower Ceiling Feminists Fight Proposition 8 Lilly’s Law House of Ideas Strings Attached Short Takes Calendar	Electrifying Women Unsafe Haven Trafficking Jam Between Two Worlds Summer of So-Called Love Short Takes
FEATURES
Cover Story 2009 Guide to Women’s Studies Forty years after its inception, women’s studies has revitalized major academic disciplines, challenged curriculum, disrupted the male-centered canon, intersected with race, class and sexuality, and experienced phenomenal growth. Forty Years of Women's Studies | BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL Data Crunch | ALLISON KIMMICH Intersections | BONNIE THORTON DILL Community College Programs | JUDITH ROY Buidling a Legacy | DEBORAH SIEGEL Sticks and Stones | MARTHA MCCAUGHEY Theory and Practice | HOLLY BLAKE & MELISSA OOTEN Researching Women | VIVIENNE HESTON-DEMIREL Up With Women in the Downturn | RANDY ALBELDA The current economic disaster belongs to everyone, but in the stimulus package gender differences were not forgotten. New Sheriff in Town | MARTHA BURK The first Latina to head Labor will enforce fair treatment for all U.S. workers. A New State of Mind | MEGAN CARPENTIER Clinton and Boxer will make sure that women’s rights are considered human rights. The Right to Good Health | DELTHIA RICKS To some, it’s a moral imperative; to others, it’s an important path out of the economic crisis. To all, health-care reform is a notion whose time has come now. Taking a bite out of Twilight | CARMEN D. SIERING Does the popular book and film series about vampires and lust have an abstinence-only, anti-feminist message?
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Law Feminist, Esq. | KATHARINE T. BARTLETT A look back at—and forward from—40 years of women’s legal studies Environment Dangerously Hard | REBECCA CLARREN Canada has already banned the plastic additive BPA—so why hasn’t the U.S.? Essay The Perfect Pantomime | AIM EE LIU What is our body telling us when we have an eating disorder? Excerpt Mandalas | ROSHNI RUSTOMJI A remembrance of the unending wars the author has watched and lived through Backtalk Real Men Don’t Hit | DONNA BRAZILE Tough times require gentle solutions.	Book Reviews Erin Aubry Kaplan on Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President Laura M. Carpenter on Jessica Valenti’s The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession With Virginity Is Hurting Young Women Amy Herdy on Helen Benedict’s The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq; Julie Phillips on Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls Mary Helen Ponce on Bárbara Renaud González’s Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? Julie Phillips on Lisa See's Shanghai Girls Bookmarks Great reads for winter 2009 DVD Watch Feminist films available for home viewing No Comment