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We'd like to share a few of the websites
that are produced by, or are about, WIFP Associates:
Dana Densmore, Michael
K. Honey, Mahasen Al Emam, Jennifer
Abod, Jo
Freeman, Frankie Hutton, Elizabeth Thoman, Shere
Hite, Ramona Rush, Sheila
Gibbons, Frieda Werden, Jean
Kilbourne, Nikki Craft, Andrea Dworkin, Margaret
R. Johnston, Alix Dobkin, Jan Zimmerman.
Dana Densmore, WIFP Vice President and board member, has a website for her publishing company, Green Lion Press, in Santa Fe, NM
Dana Densmore was one of the women who published, and wrote for, the early women's journal No More Fun & Games: A Journal of Female Liberation back in 1968. She also published Black Belt Woman: The Magazine of Women in the Martial Arts and Self Defense in the 1970s, and The Artemis Path: A Journal of Self Transformation in the 1980s. She is the Director of Artemis Institute and the co-founder of Ja Shin Do. Her extensive writings appear in numerous anthologies. In the January 1980 issue of Ms. magazine, Densmore was written up as one of "80 Women to Watch in the '80s." She continues to be a "woman to watch" in the nineties and into the 21st century.
Dana Densmore's own impressive book, Newton's Principia: The Central Argument, was published by Green Lion Press in 1995.
Michael K. Honey, teaches African-American, Ethnic and Labor Studies and American History. He is a full professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT). His recent book, Going Down Jericho Road, The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, (W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 2007) is fascinating reading. For a review, go to Associate Books (http://wifp.org/AssociateBooks.html).
His previous book, Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), received the Southern Historical Association's H.L. Mitchell Award for southern working-class history, the Southern Regional Council's Lillian Smith award for a study of human rights issues in the South, and the Tacoma Public Library's Murray Morgan Award for excellence by a Washington State writer. An earlierbook, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), won the Organization of American Historian's James A. Rawley Prize for history of race relations, the Southern Historical Associations Charles Sydnor Prize for southern history, and the University of Illinois Press' Herbert Gutman Award for social history.
Mahasen Al Emam
Mahasen Al Emam is the Arab Women Media
Center's Founder and Director, and is a registered Jordanian
journalist.
Website: http://www.ayamm.org
"about us" page (in English): http://www.ayamm.org/english/AboutUs.htm
staff page (in English): http://www.ayamm.org/english/staff.htm
Jennifer Abod
Jennifer's web site: http://www.jenniferabod.com/
Jo Freeman's website keeps us up-to-date on her writings and her work. Read about her fascinating life, locate articles she has written, find out about her latest books (including a chance to order them), see her feminist button collection, and more!
[web address: http://www.jofreeman.com/]
Dr. Frankie Hutton: www.geocities.com/frankiehutton/rose.html
Elizabeth Thoman has been doing excellent
work on media literacy. She has a website for her organization
which you will want to bookmark. Elizabeth Thoman
is the founder of the Center
for Media Literacy, a not-for-profit membership organization
established in 1989. See what great things she has been doing.
Shere Hite has a website: "Hite Research includes research, business consulting and in-depth investigation of personal, sexual and family issues, the results frequently published as books and articles or presented as lectures."
[web address: http://www.hite-research.com/]
Ramona Rush and students have put together an extensive, excellent
guide to the alternative press, dedicated to WIFP founder Donna
Allen: Virtual
Alternative Media Project (website).
Sheila Gibbons now has a website for Media Report to Women!
If you are not already a subscriber, take a look at this website
because I'm sure you will not want to miss another issue. Sheila
Gibbons has done a wonderful job with the periodical that Donna
Allen founded in 1972 along with the Women's Institute for Freedom
of the Press.
Frieda Werden cofounded WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service, an independently syndicated news and current affairs program by and about women around the world.
Frieda Werden tells about the founding of WINGS in Women Transforming Communications, Global Intersections (SAGE Publications, 1996).
Jean Kilbourne's website provides us with great information about her work.
Nikki Craft
and: http://www.nostatusquo.com/index.html
Andrea Dworkin
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/
Margaret R. Johnston
Margaret R. Johnston is the creator of the website http://www.pregnancyoptions.info and the pregnancy options workbooks found there. She has been an abortion provider for over 20 years in upstate New York.
Alix Dobkin
http://www.ladyslipper.org/alix_dobkin.html is the link to Alix's web page on Ladyslipper. (You might also be interested in seeing the page on women's music on this web site.)
Jan Zimmerman, WIFP Associate since 1977, is the owner of Watermelon Mountain Web Marketing " one of the very few Internet marketing companies with solid grounding in the basics of running a profitable business, from strategic planning to Web policy development." See http://www.watermelonweb.com/index.html
She is also the author of the book Web Marketing For Dummies http://www.watermelonweb.com/book.htm.
web editor: Martha Leslie Allen
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
1940 Calvert Street, NW
Washinton, DC 20009-1502
email: mediademocracy@wifp.org
phone: 202-265-6707
www.wifp.org