This is a link to all the writing on the Women's WORLD website, preserved as an archive of our work 1994-2004. Lots of good stuff here, including descriptions of our projects in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia; practical advice for writers; our contest "Women in War Zones," all our publications; and "The Crisis," an archive of feminist responses to 9/11 and the "war on terror."
January 27, 2014
Male gatekeepers are still finding ways to stifle women's voices, in places ranging from the internet, where sexist trolls attack women who write about videogames, to Kolkata's literary circles, where Taslima Nasrin is under fire for discussing sexual harassment among writers.
Spring, 1986
Why women writers attending the 1986 International PEN Congress in New York, chaired by Norman Mailer, felt it necessary to occupy the ballroom of the Essex House Hotel in a protest meeting.
December, 1992
Human ecology means that people's opportunities must match their gifts, so that we can live up to our potential. This has never been the case for women, especially poor women, and things are getting worse.
May 10, 1993
The 1993 trial-by-media of the "Five Croatian Witches," women writers who were insufficiently nationalist for the new powers-that-be, brought together all the elements necessary for a witch hunt.
March 20, 1995
In 1994, my children's picture book, Families, became the focus of a Christian Coalition censorship campaign in Fairfax County, Virginia. I went there to see what was up, and found that I was but the first step on a broader agenda: to make sure no information about gay sexuality ever reached the county's children.
September 1995
This pamphlet, written for the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, is the first international treatment of gender-based censorship. It is also an argument for integrating culture and economic development.
December 2000
This article, originally a speech to a Women's WORLD European team meeting at Bellagio in 1999, goes over the organization's politics and principles, and then gets down to personal vision.