Issue 39


Issue 39 was published in Summer 1999.

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Table of Contents:

Letters

The price of fame — Germaine Greer’s The Whole Woman reviewed by Debbie Cameron

An audacious idea — Kathy Cusack reports on a major research project on violence against women in Ghana

Local heroine — Margaret Mary Issaka interviewed by Linda Regan

Bad press — Tabloid sexism dissected by Isla Duncan

Different decade, same old shit — Stevi Jackson is not surprised by new findings about young women’s experience of heterosexuality

Balancing the budget — Debbie Budlender explains the Women’s Budget Initiative devised by feminists in South Africa

Chewing it over — Feminism and vegetarianism debated by Dianne Butterworth, Debbie Cameron, Liz Kelly and Joan Scanlon

Cruel but not unusual — Claudia Hasanbegovic argues for understanding domestic violence as a form of torture

Difference is not all that counts — Purna Sen takes issue with the emphasis on difference at the expense of what women share

Barking Back: A Cock and Bull Story — Julia Parnaby finds Viagra a bitter pill to swallow

 

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