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Stories from Three Reporters Who Covered Vietnam

By WeNews Staff & no-author ● Arts & Culture ● April 7, 2003

Women’s eNews presents three excerpts from “War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam.” The tales inspire sadness, outrage and awe for the journalists who broke the gender barrier in war coverage.

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3,000 Rwandan Women Await Trials for Genocide

By Nicole Itano ● Arts & Culture ● December 20, 2002

Some 3,000 women are accused of participating in the Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million members of the country’s ethnic minority. Meanwhile, survivors worry about what will happen when some of the accused are returned to the nation’s villages.

From ‘Lesbian/Woman’ to ‘Battered Wives’

By Del Martin ● Commentary ● March 27, 2002

In the final Women’s eNews history essay, a remarkable San Francisco couple tells their stories–gathered from a union of 49 years–and recalls their collaboration on two books that were instrumental in changing millions of women’s lives.

Margaret Sanger Writes on Race and Reproduction

By no-author ● Uncategorized ● July 6, 2001

Caribbean Writers Tell Their Stories ‘To Live’

By Sharon Cucinotta ● Arts & Culture ● April 30, 2001

Women writers from the Spanish Caribbean are from diverse nations and races and cultures. Yet many of their writings articulate the common song of those yearning for freedom but longing to belong to a family, a nation, a culture.

Frustrated Women Authors Reinvent Publishing

By Jennifer Woodhull ● Uncategorized ● April 19, 2001

A group of women writers met, shared their complaints and came up with a plan to revolutionize the book publishing industry. The result, EdgeWork, promises to provide a glimpse of what publishing looks like when women matter.

Sisters In Crime Plot In Land Of Midnight Sun

By Jeri Fink ● Arts & Culture ● March 18, 2001

Women mystery writers met in Alaska to learn about death below zero, the workings of frontier shotguns and how to stuff bodies into 55-gallon drums. They celebrated the female sleuth who hunts, kills, quarters a moose–and cooks it for dinner.

Author Says We are Living In Emotional Famine

By Suzie Siegel ● Arts & Culture ● July 12, 2000

Well-known feminist writer on racism and sexism has embarked on writing a trilogy about love, saying we live in a time of cynicism and misunderstanding about love. Book One: New Visions.