[net.women] Mother Jones on birth defects

551rcg@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS) (12/13/84)

        There's an interesting article in this month's 
        issue of "Mother Jones" on birth defects--any
        expecting types out there might want to read it.

        Incidentally, this particular magazine, while
        occasionally tending to be a bit shrill, often
        has some very good reading on the subject of
        women in our society; in addition, it contains
        articles on other subjects which apparently
        are too controversial to make it in the more
        "mainstream" magazines. Check it out.

saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (12/14/84)

>         Incidentally, this particular magazine, while
>         occasionally tending to be a bit shrill, often
>         has some very good reading on the subject of
>         women in our society; in addition, it contains
>         articles on other subjects which apparently
>         are too controversial to make it in the more
>         "mainstream" magazines. Check it out.

I would like to second that.  Mother Jones happens to have 2 very prominent
feminists having very influential positions: Deirdre English who is executive
editor and Barbara Eirenreich (whose position in Mother Jones, I am not too
sure of).  Unlike most "serious" magazines, Mother Jones seems to have many
women participating in the running of the magazine (in fact women outnumber
men 3 to 1 in top positions in the magazine), which of course doesn't mean
much about the magazine except that it is unusual. Mother Jones herself, of
course was a feminist.

Sophie Quigley
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