TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
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The Budget Battles Begin Get Out of Jail Free—From Drugs The Means to a Wichita Abortion Fight On, Wisconsin! Short Takes Calendar	Women of the Arab Spring Modern Amazons Embracing Their Roundness Short Takes
FEATURES
Rape Is Rape | BY STEPHANIE HALLETT If a woman isn't bruised and bleeding, will her rape be counted? Treatment Denied | BY MOLLY M. GINTY The opinions that count most at Catholic hospitals are those of bishops, not doctors. Are they whom women want to entrust with their reproductive health care? The Forgotten Women of West Mesa | BY LAURA PASKUS Eleven women were murdered and dumped on an Albuquerque, N.M., borderland. Why haven't the crimes been solved? And can't we do better for the most vulnerable women in society? what would bell hooks say? | BY JENNIFER WILLIAMS Ms. called the iconoclastic scholar, writer and activist to find out.
DEPARTMENTS
Environment Preserving the Future| BY CATHERINE A. TRAYWICK Indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada are taking on Big Oil — and winning.. Law Class Act, Glass Ceiling| BY JUSTINE F. ANDRONICI AND DEBRA S. KATZ After 10 years, the Wal-Mart sex discrimination case finally makes it to the Supreme Court. Essay Mujeres de Maíz| BY MARIA MELENDEZ Want to know how "free trade" affects women in Mexico? Follow the corn.	Book Reviews Linda-Anne Rebhun on Cynthia Eller's Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory 1861-1900 Karen Joy Fowler on Geraldine Brooks' Caleb's Crossing Laura Orlando on Sandra Steingraber's Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis Lori L. Tharps on Lorene Cary's If Sons, Then Heirs Pamela D. Bridgewater on Serena Mayeri's Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law and the Civil Rights Revolution Bookmarks Great reads for Spring 2011 DVD Watch Feminist films available for home viewing. Backtalk Moving Backward | BY DONNA BRAZILE The new House majority is trying to reverse progress on all fronts—especially on women's rights. No Comment