Ms. WINTER 2007 ISSUE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
National	Global
Women Voted for Change War Through a Feminist Lens Swing Shift Hail to the Chief Recipe for Safety Viva las Muchachas! Short Takes Calendar	Iran’s Quiet Revolution New Rights Old Wrongs Sista-hood Is Powerful North Star The Unkindest Cut Short Takes
FEATURES
Cover Story This Is What a Speaker Looks Like | Marie Cocco Nancy Pelosi has finally cracked the marble ceiling of the Capitol. Now what will she do with the unprecedented power she has earned? Photo: David Deal The Most Feared Woman on Capitol Hill? | Linda Burstyn Tom DeLay complained miserably about Melanie Sloan and her ethics watchdog group—so she must be doing something right. Home at Last | Michele Kort Feminist art moves into the spotlight, with two major exhibitions and a housewarming for “The Dinner Party.” A Voice for the Voiceless Executive editor Katherine Spillar speaks with heroic Afghan activist Sima Samar about the collapse in Afghan women’s security and rights.
DEPARTMENTS
Environment How Green Is My City | Francesca Lyman Money Money Talks | Martha Burk Law Scaling the Maternal Wall | Debra S. Katz and Justine F. Andronici Media Beautiful Betty | Yeidy M. Rivero Excerpt Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy | Barbara Ehrenreich	Book Reviews Sonia Shah on Lisa Margonelli’s Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline Anne C. Bailey on Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Zee Edgell on Isabel Allende’s Inés of My Soul Lisa Teasley on Anya Ulinich’s Petropolis Great Reads for Winter 2007 Backtalk Madame Speaker | Donna Brazile No Comment