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Pettifer: Mi General

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Ann Pettifer
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Early this year, the British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, announced that he was “minded” to send General Augusto Pinochet back to Chile. Pinochet has been detained in Britain for 18 months awaiting extradition to Spain, ...

Staff: The Reason To Demonstrate

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Z Staff
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The mid-April Washington demonstratons against the IMF, World Bank, and WTO are imminent. Are you going? If not, will you be discussing the issues with co-workers, relatives, and schoolmates, even though far from Washington? ...

Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series I looked at the “scientific” claims made about women in Dianne Hales’s book Just Like A Woman. In Part III I began examining Helen Fisher’s book The First Sex, published by Random House an...

Bronski: The Destiny of Biology

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University, her research and writing covers a broad rage o...

Martinez: The New Youth Movement In California

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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Last February, 42 mostly professional adultsâ€”lawyers, teachers, civil rights leaders, and older activistsâ€”were arrested for shutting down the Oakland jail to demonstrate against a vicious juvenile crime la...

Bronski: The State of Queer Film

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to have access to mainstream movie making, independent filmmakers, writers, and producers began turning out a remarkable body ...

Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part II

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent As I said in Part I, the title 37.7 seconds refers to the average amount of time fathers spent each day communicating with their babies during the first three months of life, according to a 1971 study quoted in Has Feminism Chang...

Bronski: Justice is Blind and Gagged

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski With a final flurry of media attention the trials of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson for the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard are now over. But in the quiet after such an emotional social and political storm, two t...

Carter: The Indigo Girls & Rage Against the Machine

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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Carter When the Atlanta, Georgia-based duo the Indigo Girls signed on with Epic Records in 1988, the mainstream music market was getting on the bandwagon of a new "folk revival" trend triggered by the surprising breakthroughs of Trac...

Berkowitz: Talk Radio's Laura Schlessinger

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Bill Berkowitz
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Berkowitz Over the past several years Dr. Laura Schlessinger has taken talk radio to new heights with her extraordinarily popular and controversial advice program. She has adapted the call-in format to her own special brand of schtick—a n...

Scioscia: Keeping My Religion

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Amanda Scioscia
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Amanda Scioscia As I stood face to face with Marta Alanis, regional coordinator of Catholics for A Free Choice in Latin America, we looked at each other with scrutiny. "I thought you’d be older," she said. "I ...

Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part I

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent What is the significance of my title, 37.7? I got it from Has Feminism Changed Science? by Londa Schiebinger who writes: "A study in 1971 reported that fathers spent an average of only 37.7 seconds each day communicating w...

Bronski: Deliver Us From Reverends

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski Across the country the headlines made everything look great. The Raleigh News and Observer blared "Falwell Apologizes to Gays" while the San Jose Mercury News trumpeted "Falwell Welcomes Gays." The Washingto...

Bronski: Wag the Dogma

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 Michael Bronski
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Wag the Dogma

Bronski: Mary Daly vs. Boston College

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski The message in all of the news and editorial coverage of Mary Daly’s newest battle in her ongoing war with Boston College (BC) to teach all-women classes is clear: The woman may be well intentioned, but wrong. The ...