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Writer’s Life Shines Light on Racial Crosscurrents

By Por Alison Bowen ● Arts & Culture ● July 3, 2006

June Cross has put her story under the microscope of historical journalism and managed to find, in her own life, a story of not only conflict but also endurance and inspiration. She has now written a book that expands on her film “Secret Daughter.”

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‘Da Vinci Code’ Lifts Lid on Goddess Scholarship

By Kara Alaimo ● Arts & Culture ● May 21, 2006

Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code,” which opened as a movie on May 19, is just the latest challenge to women’s lowly status in religion. The female place in sacred history, according to a group of researchers, goes beyond wife, mother and follower.

Suzanne Levine Taps Into Later-Life Energies

By Por Alison Bowen ● Uncategorized ● April 3, 2006

Suzanne Braun Levine has been top editor at both Ms. magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review. But now she’s put on her writing cap and is touring the country with her latest book; it’s about women seizing a second chance in later life.

Female Africans Take Lead in Prize-Winning Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari ● Arts & Culture ● November 25, 2005

African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.

Female Physicians Face Higher Suicide Risk

By Suzanne Batchelor ● Arts & Culture ● January 31, 2005

Female physicians face a surprising killer; themselves. Although no research has been conducted on reasons for their especially high suicide rate, people close to the problem suspect heavy work-life burdens and gender bias in the profession.

Suffragists Knew How to Make a Stir on Holidays

By Laura Schenone ● Uncategorized ● November 25, 2004

If Thanksgiving finds you basting the turkey and feeling tied to the stove, take heart. Laura Schenone’s backward glance at suffrage cookbooks reveals a proud tradition of female radicals in the kitchen.

‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’: Going, Going, Gone Global

By Molly Ginty ● Arts & Culture ● September 14, 2004

“Our Bodies, Ourselves” is more than ever becoming the basic text for women across the globe. Translators of the free-thinking U.S. text are expanding its reach from Argentina to Turkey and adapting it to cultural boundaries.

Our Bodies, Ourselves Turns 35 Today

By Molly Ginty ● Health & Science ● May 4, 2004

Thirty-five years after their first meeting, the women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves–the popular reference that allowed women to take health information into their own homes–reflect on how their work shaped the women’s health movement.

Daughter of Justice Blackmun Goes Public about Roe

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Arts & Culture ● February 29, 2004

As Justice Blackmun’s archives are about to go public, the daughter of the author of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade talks about the collection, the hate mail her father brought home and her own emergence as a pro-choice advocate.

Gail Collins: History Maker and Women’s Historian

By Luchina Fisher ● Uncategorized ● November 30, 2003

Gail Collins, the first female head of The New York Times editorial board, has just completed a book on the history of women in the United States.