Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Mother Jones on birth defects Message-ID: <10401@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 03:27:29 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.10401 Posted: Fri Dec 14 03:27:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:30:15 EST References: <778@hound.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19 > 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 ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley