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Bronski: The Failure of Privacy
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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To most Americans, the right to privacy is a cornerstone in the grand constitutional structure, a right that guarantees a wide range of freedoms. We invoke it romantically in our self-righteous claims to freedom from social or legal intrusio...
Carter: Hip-Hop Uprising
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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Hip-Hop Uprising
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Part VI of this series, we looked at Natalie Angier’s Women: An Intimate Geography, an entertaining, very thorough examination/celebration of our bodies. We probed the intimate details of our eggs, our chromosomes, and our vaginas, e...
Bronski: Bully Pulpit Indeed
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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John Cardinal O’Connor, who died last month, was perhaps the most influential Catholic leader in America, known as much for his just-folks manner as his strongly worded moral leadership. People didn’t always agree with ...
Berkowitz: Revving Up the Christian Movement for Bush
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
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George W. Bush is out on the campaign trail hotfooting his way to the political center. Almost every day he’s either hawking a new education proposal or health care plan, reassuring Catholics that his Bob Jones University sp...
Bronski: Dr. Laura: Moral Dominatrix
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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It’s the voice that you can’t get out of your head—aggressive, accusatory, and grotesquely “girlish”—it emanates from the radio in a steady stream of unpleasantness: “What did you think you were...
Chimonas: Home Sweet Home?
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Susan Chimonas
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As the 2000 election draws near, we presumably will hear much about the candidates’ “family values.” Republicans and Democrats alike will invariably express their concern for, and noble intentions toward, the famil...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part V
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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I began this series by saying that there was a time when “reading feminism” was a joyful, liberating journey. That was pre-1980. Then it became a depressing experience, a subject for satire or/and outrage as inanities, ...
Cohen: Beware The Violence Initiative Project
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
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As late as the 1980s, a small but influential coterie of prize-winning scientists were trying to prove that black children were, on average, less intelligent than white children. Intelligence, they said, ran “in the genes” of rac...
Bronski: The Subversive Ms. Highsmith and The Talented Mr. Ripley
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Isn’t that the cute Matt Damon playing a beguiling, decidedly dangerous, homosexual in Anthony Minghella’s film The Talented Mr. Ripley? Damon acts to perfection the role of Tom Ripley, the accomplished young American h...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
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
