TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
National	Global
Coming Out, Voted In Condoms = Arrest? No More Masquerade for Baltimore CPCs Hillary Signals New Era Abortion Clinics Under Siege Short Takes Calendar	Is the Personal Still Political? A Legacy Forgotten? Not So Happily Ever After Let’s Talk About Sex Short Takes
FEATURES
Cover Story Bishops Lose the Faith(ful) | BY JON O’BRIEN What happens to the separation of church and state when top U.S. Catholic clerics try to hold health-care reform hostage? Why Men’s Health Is a Feminist Issue | BY ADINA NACK As new uses are approved for the so-called cervical cancer vaccine, women learn once again how intimately their well-being is tied to men’s. An Acequia Runs Through It | BY PATRICIA MARINA TRUJILLO The water-sharing traditions of New Mexico’s women serves as a model—or at least a metaphor—for how the world should treat H2O as a community resource.
DEPARTMENTS
Women's Studies We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For | BY MOYA BAILEY AND ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS Young Black feminists take their research and activism online. Money Tough Crowd, Tough Leader | BY MARTHA BURK As women surge in union ranks, one woman rises to new heights at the AFL-CIO. Health It’s Not in Your Head | BY NANCY G. KLIMAS, M.D. A breakthrough study suggests that chronic fatigue syndrome is caused by a virus. Excerpt Counter Culture | BY CANDACY A. TAYLOR Writer/photographer Candacy Taylor has been collecting tales from career food servers since 2001—an idea that came to her while waiting tables herself at a San Francisco sushi restaurant. Rememberance A Feminist’s Feminist | BY MARY E. HUNT Mary Daly was a mystic, a radical, an iconoclast, a teacher, a philosopher, a lexicographer, a theologian and, once upon a time, a “good Catholic girl.” Backtalk The Global Pandemic of Rape | BY DONNA BRAZILE Time to end violence against women and impunity for their assailants	Book Reviews Valerie Ann Johnson on Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Diana Postlethwaite on Louise Erdrich’s Shadow Tag Casey N. Cep on Sarah Blake’s The Postmistress Brenda R. Weber on Susan J. Douglas’ Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work Is Done Ronnie Steinberg on Kathleen Gerson’s The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation Is Reshaping Family, Work and Gender in America Bookmarks Great reads for winter 2010 No Comment