Contents:

I.     International Directory of Women's Media 

II.   Highlighted Women's Media on this web page:

III.  Women's Media Articles & News

IV. Women's Media History Resources

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Women's Media

Women-owned media, by & about women, are at the heart of the women's movement. Women-owned media make it possible for women to speak for themselves.

We, as women, have not been able to rely on the male-owned corporate mass media to be our communications system. The male-owned "women's magazines," newspapers and broadcast media have not been a place for us to share information vital to our survival. When mass media gave coverage to our concerns at all it was because women's media raised our issues so strongly that they could not be ignored. The issue of violence against women is an example. Even we we obtained coverage it was not always accurate or respectful.

The strength of women's media has grown tremendously since the 1960s. The early publications played a key role in sparking and spreading the movement. Now with the internet we are increasingly communicating on a global level, speaking for ourselves and organizing on the issues close to our hearts and vital to our survival. We are able to tackle issues that once may have divided us. We are listening to each other and sharing perspectives and information.

I.   Directory of Women's Media

   http://www.wifp.org/DWM/DirectoryWomensMedia.html

The Directory of Women's Media is located on this website (no cost to access) and is available from WIFP in print form for sale.   If you are connected with a women's media and would like it to be included in the continually updated online version and the annually published Directory of Women's Media, you will find information about inclusion on this website and at the top of this page.

Send us your entry for the Directory of Women's Media

Print Edition available      details

II. Highlighted Women's Media

Mothers Warriors Voice Quarterly News-journal        highlight

Feminist Studies        highlight

Ms. Magazine        highlight

Palestine Women's Radio     highlight

CFUV Women's Radio Collective    highlight

Wake Up Call    highlight

Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal/Revue d'etudes sur les femmes     highlight

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources   highlight

New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism     highlight

MADRE Speaks    highlight

Women’s Radio Shows    highlight

Womanifesting    highlight

Shetizen     highlight

Many More on Page 2

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Mothers Warriors Voice Quarterly News-journal

By Sara Bales, WIFP
August 2011

Mother Warriors Voice Quarterly News-journal celebrates it's 25th anniversary on October 7th, 2011. Founded in 1986, it gives a voice to mothers in poverty and is published four times a year.

In the Spring 2011 issue, there is an article entitled "Students Revolt Globally". It details the increased costs of education around the world and the steps students are taking to fight back. Demonstrations, student strikes, and collaborative efforts with unions are all routes being pursued in order to cut back the costs of education to reasonable limits. As British protest organizer Lindsey German said, "Of course, there is an alternative- we could stop spending money on wars. We could tax rich individuals or corporations that pay no, or very little tax. Why should the poorest people have to pay for this austerity?" (p.40) Of course, there is no good reason.

The website for Mothers Warriors Voice is www.wmvoice@execpc.com

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Feminist Studies

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
July 2010

Feminist Studies was started in 1972 through a network of women from Columbia University’s women’s liberation group, students from a women’s studies course at Sarah Lawrence College, and feminist activists from New York City. This scholarly journal was created in an effort to provide an analytic forum to engage the issues raised by the women’s movement and to bring together the contributions of feminists activists and scholars.

The journal’s first editor was Ann Calderwood who ran the journal out of her pocket and her apartment. By the fall of 1977, the journal found its current home at the University of Maryland College Park under the guidance of Editorial Director, Claire G. Moses, and a small paid staff. Over the years, Feminist Studies has been a reliable source of significant writings on issues that are important to all classes and races of women.

In their first issue of volume 36, Feminist Studies was focused on rethinking global and comparative ways that women’s issues are portrayed today. The journal included such papers as Recasting Global Feminism's: Toward a Comparative Historical Approach to Women’s Activism and Feminist Scholarship and Becoming Feminist Activists: Comparing Narratives. In addition to these kinds of papers, the journal also included an art essay and a review essay.

Feminist Studies continues to take strides in the world of women’s media. Many of the papers published in their journal are presented a conferences around the world and are frequently the first place that a paper is cited from.

More information about Feminist Studies can be found at their website: http://www.feministstudies.org/home.html

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Ms. Magazine

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
July 2010

Ms. Magazine started out as a “one-shot” insert in the New York Magazine in December 1971. However, no one understood the impact that it would have until July 1972 when their first regular issue hit the stands. Its 300,000 “one-shot” test copies sold out nationwide in eight ways and generated an astonishing 26,000 subscription order and over 20,000 reader letters within weeks.

Ms. was the first U.S. magazine to feature prominent American women demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortion, the first to explain and advocate for the ERA, to rate presidential candidates on women’s issues, to put domestic violence and sexual harassment on the cover of the magazine, and many more issues that relate to women in the past, present and future.

Today, the magazine boasts the most extensive coverage of international women’s issues of any magazine available in the US. On December 31, 2001, the Feminist Majority Foundation, run by president Eleanor Smeal, assumed ownership of Ms. through Liberty Media for Women, LLC. Ms. operations are now located in the offices of the Feminist Majority Foundation in Los Angeles and Arlington, Va.

In the last issue from Spring 2010, the magazine focused on the upcoming class-action lawsuit against the military for sexual assault, abortion doctor George Tiller’s murderer, and the high rate of maternal death and illnesses around the world. In addition, the issue remembers Dorothy Height and Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller.

Ms. continues to be an award-wining magazine recognized nationally and internationally as the media expert on issues relating to women’s status, women’s right, and women’s point of view.

More information about Ms. Magazine can be found at their website: http://www.msmagazine.com/

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Palestine Women's Radio

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
June 2010

NISAA is a commercial, nonpolitical radio station in Ramallah, Palestine whose mission is to entertain, inform, inspire and empower Palestinian women. NISSA FM is the first of its kind for women in the region. It is a pioneering station because it views the woman as a contributor in the development of society and the intention is to positively enhance the general image of women in Palestine.

NISAA FM is a unique women's radio station because it is a radio for women and not only about women. It provides a platform for women to discuss their experiences. The vision of the station is two fold, namely to improve connectivity and exchange of information who are separated by walls and checkpoints and secondly to engage men in the discussion about women's rights in a sensitive manner so as to educate and not provoke. NISAA enables Palestinian women to becoming 'media producers' rather than 'media consumers' only through all forms of social media.

For more information, vist their website at: http://www.radionisaa.net/english.html

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CFUV Women's Radio Collective

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
June 2010

The Women's Radio Collective at CFUV is a self-organized group female staff members and volunteers at CFUV, 101.9 FM, the University of Victoria's campus and radio station. One of their main goals is to give a voice to women in the community. They produce two programs, Women on Air and Big Broad Cast. Women on Air is a spoken-word documentary program on anything and everything of interest to women. Big Broad Cast features women in all genres of music, in many languages, and of many nationalities. They feature live performances and recordings of local women artists.

Women take over the airwaves once a year in March around the International Women's Day for a celebration of women's programming known as the Women's Radiothon. All funds collected go to support the Women's Radio Collective and participation of women on radio.

For more information, visit their website at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca/women/index.html

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Wake Up Call

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
June 2010

Wake Up Call is WBAI's morning drive-time news magazine. Broadcast on Pacifica Radio 99.5 FM in New York City, the radio show features coverage of local, national and global news, social and cultural issues, the arts-film, theater, exhibitions, literature, and events, and listener phone-ins. The focus is social, economic and racial justice, human rights and peace. Perspectives excluded from the mainstream media are included on these airwaves.

The show is broadcast from 6-8 a.m. on Monday-Friday. It is available on the WBAI website for streaming.

For more information, visit their website at :http://wbai.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=142

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Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal/Revue d'etudes sur les femmes

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
May 2010

With 35 years of publication under its belt, Atlantis is an interdisciplinary research journal devoted to critical and creative writing on the topic of women written in English or French. The journal is published twice a year by the Institute for the Study of Women, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS Canada. Atlantis considers only previously unpublished submissions for publication. These materials mainly consist of scholarly articles but interviews, opinion pieces, book reviews, creative work and illustrations can also be included in the journal. All material for consideration undergoes a double blind peer review by at least three external reviewers and editorial panel members.

In their first issue of 2010, Atlantis focuses on the pioneering work of Margaret Conrad, one of the founders of the journal, as well as highlighting the productions of graduate student members of the Canadian Women's Studies Association. Twelve papers are highlighted in three different sections. The first three deal with embodiment and body issues. The second and largest group of articles focuses on various aspects of feminism. Other papers focus on violence, educational setting dynamics and constitutional discrimination claims in the United States and Canada.

For more information, visit their website: http://msvu.ca/atlantis

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Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
May 2010

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources reviews the latest print, electronic and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies. Recent book reviews have treated such subjects as women and legislative representation around the globe as well as feminist ethics. Feminist Collections is part of a joint subscription with Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Content and New Books on Women, Gender, & Feminism. The Feminist Collections are made possible by the Women's Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin System.

For more information, visit their website: http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/feminist-coll.html#new

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New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism

By Sara Friedman, WIFP
May 2010

New Books comes out every six months with bibliographic coverage of the most recent books in women's studies, women's issues and gender topics. The publication spans a wide variety of topics such as anthropology, film/theater, law, literature, media, politics/political theory, and science/mathematics/technology. New Books is part of a joint subscription with Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources and Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Content. New Books are made possible by the Women's Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin System.

For more information, visit their website: http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/new-books.html

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MADRE Speaks

By Sara Friedmna, WIFP
May 2010

MADRE Speaks is the twice annual print newsletter for MADRE, a international women's human rights organization. They work in partnership with community-based women's organizations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, education and other human rights.

In their Spring/Summer 2010 issue, MADRE Speaks focuses on Stories of Our Sisters 2010. It tells the stories of women from Haiti, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine, Iraq and Sudan.

For more information, visit their website: http://www.madre.org/index/resources-12/newsletters-44.html

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Women’s Radio Shows

Compiled by Sarah Glover, WIFP, July, 2008
Updated by Sara Sepehrrad, WIFP, March 2010

51%: The Women’s Perspective
Host: Susan Barnett
Email: sbarnett at wamc.org
Website: http://www.wamc.org/prog-51.html
Description: In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next fifty years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all. Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a show dedicated to that viewpoint.

Feminist Magazine
Hosts: Various
Email: feministmagazine at yahoo.com
Website: http://www.feministmagazine.org/, http://kpfk.org/programs/proglist/82-feminist-magazine.html
Description: Dynamic discussion of news, views, politics and culture with feminist perspective.

Her Turn
Host: Diane Farsetta
Email: wort at wort-fm.org
Website: http://wort-fm.org/programming-news-local.php#herturn
Description: News and information by and about women in a magazine format. Includes shorter news stories and in-depth features produced by the Her Turn Women’s Collective.

In Our Voices
Host: Nkenge Toure
Email: InOurVoices at aol.com
Website: http://www.pacifica.org/program-guide/op,program-page/station_id,5/program_id,440/day,Friday/
Description: "In Our Voices " is a public affairs program focusing on issues from a woman's perspective. Built on the concept that everything is a woman's issue. This show is a platform for the voices of women.

Issues for Your Tissues
Host: Katie Vitale
Email: issues4tissues at gmail.com
Website: http://www.koop.org/?page=schedule§ion=issuesforyourtissues
Description: A show about reproductive rights & education.

Joy of Resistance
Hosts: Linda Freeman, Fran Luck, Erin Lee Mock, Sofia Quintero, Steffie Brooks
Email: joyofresistance at wbai.org
Website: http://wbai.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=376&Itemid=142h, http://www.pacifica.org/program-guide/op,program-page/station_id,4/program_id,56/day,Thursday/
Description: Multi-cultural feminist radio

Sophie's Parlor
Host: Various
website: http://sophiesparlor.blogspot.com/
Description: The oldest women's music show on radio! WPFW 89.3 FM Washington DC every Thursday 1-3 PM.

Uprising
Host: Sonali Kolhatkar
Email: uprising at kpfk.org
Website: http://uprisingradio.org/home/, http://www.kpfk.org/programs/152-uprising.html
Description: Uprising emphasizes connecting global issues with local ones. Simply informing listeners of the problems in the world and our communities is not enough - we hope to motivate our listeners to take an active role in their communities.

Wakeup Call
Hosts: Deepa Fernandes
Email: dfernandes at wbai, comments at wakeupcallradio.org
Website: http://wbai.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=142
Description: Wakeup Call is WBAI's morning drive-time news magazine. The show features in-depth coverage of local, national and international news, social and cultural issues and events. The focus is on human rights, peace and social, economic and racial justice. We bring voices and perspectives that are excluded from mainstream media.

Women’s Magazine
Hosts: A group of diverse women of various ages and races.
Email: womensmagazine at comcast.net
Website: http://www.kpfa.org/womensmagazine/
Description: The Women's Magazine is an hour-long radio program that airs on KPFA radio that presents and discusses women's lives and issues globally and locally from a radical multiracial feminist/mujerist/womanist perspective. We bring women's issues, lives, culture, music, struggles and achievements to the forefront and bring a feminist critique of issues important to the progressive community.

Women’s Show
Hosts: Mary Glenney and Arlene Engelhardt
Email: arlene at WMNF.org, maryg at WMNF.org
Website: http://www.wmnf.org/programs/show/303
Description: An eclectic feminist/womanist radio magazine. Music is mixed with arts and multicultural features including interviews, film and book reviews, announcements, news, speeches and documentaries by and about women.

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Womanifesting

By Sara Sepehrrad, WIFP
March 2010

Womanifesting is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 by Tracy Chiles McGhee, who wanted to build not only an organization and movement but also a community that involved woman. She created a word, WOMA that is best described as "the state of being for a women and their quest to embody their highest selves in the face of life's challenges." Womanifesting refers to the power women get from one another and with the determination and drive they have they can force each other and themselves to strive in society. Womanfesting is defined as the application of self determined woman. As an organization, WOMA is there to promote the general welfare of women by empowering, inspiring encouraging and mobilizing women to invest in themselves.

If you want more information, friend them on Facebook or follow them on twitter, go to the website: www.womanifesting.org

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Shetizen

By Sara Sepehrrad, WIFP
March 2010

Shetizen is considered an online tool for women to report news on women. It can be considered a media news outlet to raise gender issues and discussions among women. A site directed and targeted specifically for women, there are certain reports that are encouraged and those are, stories about women, by women, for women, news and current affairs from a women's perspective, news that affect women directly and indirectly videos on women and audios from women about women, or interviews with women.

The site is always looking for women who want to be apart of the empowerment movement and who would like to contribute there own two-sense to the journal.

Shetizen believes that all there citizen journalists are women and that is why they are called "She-tizen" journalists. "Every journalists is a citizen journalists but not every citizen journalists shetizen can be a shetizen journalist. "

For more information on the site or to upload a story visit their website at www.shetizenjournalist.com and have the "she" power in you.

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