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Military Power: Is It Power for Women
Military Power: Is It Power for Women
This issue has two special sections: one on women and the military, and the other is part II of our special series on motherhood. The section on the military has news on the rape of an Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers and on the deaths by dehydration of some female U.S. soldiers who were afraid of rape by the latrines at night. An article examines whether military service can be feminist. Another compares rapes by military men both inside and outside of brothels and inside and outside of the war zone.

The special section on motherhood contains a groundbreaking article on the future of motherhood by Judith Stadtman Tucker, information on NOW's motherhood initiatives, and reviews of The Motherhood Manifesto and The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars.
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Women and Fundamentalisms
Women and Fundamentalisms
Is There Room In Heaven for Women?
Rising fundamentalist movements worldwide--Hindu, Christian, Muslim--are threatening women's rights and lives in the name of religion. What really motivates these movements? How do they affect women's lives? What are women doing about it? These questions are the focus of this special issue.
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Celebrating 35 Years of off our backs
Celebrating 35 Years of off our backs
This issue has retrospectives on feminism and the founding of off our backs, coverage of the 2005 INCITE Color of Violence conference, and our articles in memory of Andrea Dworkin. With a review of MacKinnon's latest, an article on body image, and an answer to mainstream claims that there are no women in the bloggosphere, one collective member desribed this issue as quintessentially feminist.
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Feminism and Motherhood
Feminism and Motherhood
This is the first in a two-part series on feminism and motherhood. Women examine the pressures on mothers who work outside the home, differences between generations of feminists in their attitudes and beliefs about motherhood, and lesbian motherhood. Raising biracial children is discussed, and experiences of working out egalitarian relationships with husbands. This issue also has an interview of a Nepali democracy activist.
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Censorship or Justice?
Censorship or Justice?
This issue covers the Captive Daughters conference on the connections between pornography and prostitution. Its other focus is women and music, with reviews of Sleater-Kinney, Ferron, more.
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Special Issue on Women, Money and Class
Special Issue on Women, Money and Class
Women's experiences of growing up poor, growing up priveleged, trying to make it as a single mother, and leaving an academic job to drive a truck for a living are just some of the topics covered. Statistics on women's income are included.
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July-August 2004
July-August 2004
Special focus on women in "men's" sports, a section on women's lives in Afghanistan and Iraq, and an exclusive article by Sarah Hoagland, author of "Lesbian Ethics" are the highlights of this issue.
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Special International Issue 2005
Special International Issue 2005
Why do people—at least here in the US of A—respond so much more sympathetically to those hit by natural disasters than to the victims of war? A commentary attempts an answer. And why have we—the United States, the United Nations, and all of us—failed to respond in a timely way to genocide? A book review considers that question.
Women and men face genocide in Sudan. Nigerian women activists are intervening to end the mistreatment of widows. Feminists in Guatemala are exposing and combating femicide. Patriarchal families in India are killing baby girls. Lesbians in Zimbabwe are coping with isolation. Lesbian feminists in New Zealand say their country’s reforms are skin-deep. Courageous women filmmakers from Iran and India are showing what women in their countries are up against.
And the U.S. empire is expanding, sometimes using the pretext that it is helping women. A new book by Zillah Eisenstein explodes that myth. Meanwhile, women in the U.S. protested against the re-coronation of the emperor.
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Love: What's Feminism Got To Do With It?
Love: What's Feminism Got To Do With It?
Love. How can we mesh love with our feminism? That is the question tackled by many of the articles in this issue’s special section on Love and Feminism.

We also offer feminist takes on current news stories: the abuse of prisoners in Iraq; the treatment of Melissa Rowland, the Utah woman who refused a Caesarean, which resulted in the death of one of her twins; and the current focus on gay marriage.

This issue also includes the view from the ground at the historic March for Women’s Lives on April 25 in Washington, DC.
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<h3>Women in Prison Special Issue</h3>

Women in Prison Special Issue
Prisons were created by males for males, to punish largely male crimes. What does it mean when women are incarcerated? In this issue we explore the lives of women in prison from a radical feminist perspective.

Articles include an overview of the life stories that lead women into prison, discussions of prison conditions, and letters from women in prison.
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