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Articles in Jan/Feb 2005 issue of Off Our Backs

• United States: Pentagon report on Air Force Academy blasted
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• CAN YOU LIVE ON IT?
  by Ogyn, Kya
• India: unsafe abortions
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Shirley Chisholm dies
• Activism & DEPRESSION
  by Shaw, Becca
• United States: men coerce women into vaginal cosmetic surgery
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Are Working-Class Men More Sexist?
  by Vandergeld, Elaine
• Cambodia: gunmen kidnap 92 women from shelter
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Update: Civil Rights Commission Chairwoman Forced to Resign
  by Butterbaugh, Laura
• announcements
• MADRE accuses U.S. of war crimes against women
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• United States: women on death row suffer harsher conditions than male inmates
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Women, RACE and CLASS
  by Winter, Amy
• Myanmar: pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi's house arrest extended
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Introduction To the Special Issue on Class
  by Ruby, Jennie
• Kenya: FGM increasingly occurring in hospitals
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Chile: new law legalizes divorce, a victory for women
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak
  by Winter, Amy
• Korea: former prostitutes sue brothel owners
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Classism: Why Should We Care?
  by Garrity, Rose
• predators seek out tsunami victims
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Navajo Chief Justice dies at 62
• letters
• Canada: government recruited women abroad to work as strippers
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• BORN Poor and SMART
  by Locke, Angela
• Japan: high court rejects sex slaves' suit
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Uncivil Rights: Bush Stacks Civil Rights Commission
  by Reeder, Constance
• Nursing at Starbucks
  by Regales, Jackie
• United States: Methodist Church ousts lesbian minister
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• No Place Like Home: The U.S. Housing Crisis
  by Whatley, Sheri
• China: women wal-mart workers demand union
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• "AIDS has a woman's face": World AIDS Day Events Focus on Gender Inequality
  by Winter, Amy
• from the collective
• United States: court strikes down New Hampshire parental notification law
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics
  by Mantilla, Karla
• Kuwait: slouching toward democracy for women
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Class Issues: The Bottom Line For Feminist Change?
  by Mantilla, Karla
• UNICEF sounds alarm over child poverty
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• United States: Hispanic lesbian elected Dallas County sheriff
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Child Care Now!
  by Norouzi, Parisa
• Thailand: sex slavery of women and children out of control
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• From Scholar to Trucker
  by Burton, Susan
• Liberia: combatants sexually abused two-thirds of population
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Colombia: all factions in armed conflict attack women
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Bibliography on Class and Classism
  by Winter, Amy
• United States: airport security officials pat down, strip search women
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• It's the Money, Honey
  by Douglas, Carol Anne
• Congo: U.N. peacekeepers violate women
  by Douglas, Carol Anne; Verma, Priya; Goktepe, Katherine; Nixon, Laura; Harris, Jen Chapin
• Sierra Leone lesbian activist murdered
• Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
  by Whatley, Sheri