Women and the prison industrial complex by Val Codd Off Our Backs, Feb 2001 The U.S. war on drugs has become a war on women, specifically women of color. According to a Department of Justice Report, since federal drug laws ushered in mandatory sentencing in 1986, the incarceration rate for …
Femicide Made in Mexico by Corie Osborn Off Our Backs March/April 2004 For the past decade, a sexual genocide has raged virtually unnoticed in Juarez, the largest city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Approximately 370 women have been found murdered in the State of Chihuahua over the past decade, …
Interview: Juarez Mother Counters Violence with Activism by Corie Osborn Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr 2004 Norma Andrade is advocating on behalf of her daughter Lilia Alejandra Garcia Andrade and hundreds of other young women who have been found murdered in Ciudad Juarez in the past ten years. Andrade has been …
Women Who Found A Way Creating a Women’s Language by Christie K K Leung Off Our Backs, Nov/Dec 2003 In ancient China, women were excluded from any standard education. Education of a man was a very good investment that would be rewarded if one day this man became a government …
Activist Scenes are No Safe Space for Women: On Abuse of Activist Women by Activist Men by Tamara K. Nopper February 4, 2005 As a woman who has experienced physical and emotional abuse from men, some of whom I had long relationships with, it is always difficult to learn from …
Rape Nation From prisons to barracks and from Iraq to Tennessee, military sexual abuse is running rampant. By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. Posted July 2, 2004. As a new officer in the Air Force who trusted the institution and the men she worked with, Dorothy Mackey didn’t think she would …
Windows to freedom: Radical feminism at a jail library by Karla Mantilla Off Our Backs, Feb 2001 off our backs collective member Karla Mantilla interviewed Claudine O’Leary by phone regarding her work in a prison library in a Chicago jail. oob: Tell me about your work with women prisoners. co: …
Women in Prison Tell It Like It Is by War, Darcy K, R, Karen, R, Shannon Off Our Backs, Feb 2001 off our backs solicited the stories of women prisoners, asking them to tell their stories for publication. Here are some of their responses. I am a woman. I am …
Women in Prison Tell It Like It Is by War, Darcy K, R, Karen, R, Shannon Off Our Backs, Feb 2001 off our backs solicited the stories of women prisoners, asking them to tell their stories for publication. Here are some of their responses. I am a woman. I am …
Recent Developments in the Study of The Great European Witch Hunt by Jenny Gibbons Since the late 1970’s, a quiet revolution has taken place in the study of historical witchcraft and the Great European Witch Hunt. The revolution wasn’t quite as dramatic as the development of radio-carbon dating, but many …