TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
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A Women’s Bill of Rights Election: The Sequel Rape Kits in Cold Storage Vatican Justice Short Takes Calendar	No Longer Silent Clandestine=Unsafe Doing Hard Time Together One-Named Power Player Too Young to Marry Short Takes
FEATURES
Cover Story Visions for Change | ELEANOR SMEAL Feminists have high expectations of our new president—and we must help him deliver on his promise. Also, we asked what readers and feminist activists would like the new administration to accomplish, and here are your thoughts. Reason Comes in From the Cold | SUSAN JACOBY Blind faith is out and the scientific method is back—and that’s all to women’s good. Beyond Babysitting | CORNELIA GRUMMAN From birth to kindergarten, children need better education than many are receiving. With a new president at the bully pulpit, they might just get it. Ana’s Choice | PATRICIA ZAVELLA Immigrant women face life-anddeath decisions: Dare they risk crossing the border? Must they leave their parents behind? Must they separate from their children? Now Congress faces a life-and-death decision: Can it reform immigration law to make it more humane? Lives on the Line | ALISA TANG Facing a resurgent Taliban, Afghan women have had to cover up and take cover. Yet many still press bravely forward for their rights.
DEPARTMENTS
Money Rescue Remedy | MARTHA BURK Don’t forget women during the economic recovery. Media The F Word on The L Word | SAL RENSHAW And by that we mean feminism Law Equal Pay and Beyond | DEBRA S. KATZ & JUSTINE ANDRONICI Congress should not only fix the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter mistake, but take further steps to erase wage discrimination. Excerpt Mandalas | ROSHNI RUSTOMJI A remembrance of the unending wars the author has watched and lived through Backtalk Ode to Joy | Donna Brazile President Obama = a new mold for leadership and a strong voice for women	Book Reviews Nisi Shawl on Yiyun Li’s The Vagrants Premilla Nadasen on Pamela E. Brooks’ Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women’s Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa Moya Bailey on Tricia Rose’sThe Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters Jennifer Cognard-Black on Elaine Showalter’sA Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx Erin Aubry Kaplan on Kathryn Stockett’s The Help Bookmarks Great reads for winter 2009 DVD Watch Feminist films available for home viewing No Comment