- 1985
- Taught: copy-editing workshop
NONPROFIT
- Member, NEWW Board of Directors, 2000-
- Member, NEWW's International Steering Committee of international communication exchange network of feminists in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the West, 1997
- Moderator, on-line meetings of International Steering Committee, 1995-96
- Communications Coordinator, 1994-1996: edit and design newsletter and other informational brochures; facilitate organization's electronic bulletin board, women.east-west; co-author of user's guide to NEWW On-Line's electronic communication network; coordinate research and information for electronic bulletin board
- U.S. Co-coordinator, 1991-94: collaborate in developing organizational structure; write, edit, and produce newsletter and other information brochures; develop outreach and maintain contacts with growing international membership; coordinate meetings of membership in New York area; collect and disseminate information to and about women in the post-communist region
- Co-founder, 1990
PUBLICATIONS
"Starting Over," in Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Bosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, Basic Books, Basic Books, 2000. (Originally published in The Village Voice, September 19, 1977.)
"Network of East-West Women," in Lessons Learned Network Resource Kit, Women's Network Support Project, Association of Progressive Communication, 2000.
"What Did I Know and When Did I Know It?" in Red Diapers: Growing Up on the American Left, edited by Judith Kaplan and Lin Shapiro, University of Illinois Press, 1998.
"Breaking New Ground: Moderating On-line Meetings," in The Women's Guide to the Wired World, by Shana Penn, Feminist Press (1997).
NEWW On-Line User's Guide, coauthor with Shana Penn and Victoria Vrana, NEWW, January 1995.
"Opening the Electronic Curtain," CHMOD, September 1997.
"Recipes for Living," And Then, Issue #7, 1996.
"I Say Legal, They Say Dirty," Newsday, June 17, 1991.
"When Lightning Struck Twice," The Village Voice, July 17, 1978.
"Red mothers," review of Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation, by Kate Weigand, Women's Review of Books, January 2001.
"Blurry blueprint," review of Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy, by Zillah Eisenstein, Women's Review of Books, March 1999.
"Unsolved mystery," review of Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder, by Melanie Thernstrom, Women's Review of Books, February 1998.
"Blood, sweat and tears," review of Not Exactly What I Had in Mind: An Incurable Love Story, by Rosemary Breslin, Women's Review of Books, April 1997.
"Lost in Cyberspace," review of Nattering on the Net: Women, Power, and Cyberspace, by Dale Spender, Women's Review of Books, November 1996.
"Staring pain in the face," review of Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy, Women's Review of Books, March 1995; (Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Yearbook, vol. 109). 
"Postcommunist, prefeminist?" reviews of Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe, by Barbara Einhorn, and Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe, edited by Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Women's Review of Books, September 1994.
"A life gone awry," review of Spoken in Silence: A Story of Murder in a Small Town, by Ann E. Imbrie, Women's Review of Books, November 1993.
"A minority of one," review of Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992, by Yelena Khanga, with Susan Jacoby, Women's Review of Books, May 1993.
"Whose glasnost?" review of Superwomen and the Double Burden: Women's Experience of Change in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, edited by Chris Corrin, Women's Review of Books, March 1993.
"Field of nightmares," review of You've Got to Have Balls to Make It in This League: My Life as an Umpire, by Pam Postema and Gene Wojciechowski, Women's Review of Books, December 1992.
"When mothers take to the air," review of Mothers Talk Back , edited by Margaret Dragu et al., Women's Review of Books , October 1992.
Review of Simone de Beauvoir and the Demystification of Motherhood, by Yolanda Astarita Patterson, New Directions for Women, July-August 1990.
Review of A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Page, by Kay Mills, Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1988.
"Where's Poppa?" review of Parenting Together: Men and Women Sharing the Care of Their Children, by Diane Ehrensaft, The Village Voice, November 3, 1987.
"Inspiration and Reflection for Mothers of '80s," reviews of The Motherhood Report, by Louis Genevie and Eva Margolies and Remaking Motherhood: How Working Mothers Are Shaping Our Children's Future, by Anita Shreve, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 16, 1987.
"Choose Your Own Book Review," review of Choose Your Own Adventure children's book series, The Village Voice, November 11, 1983.
"Save This Book," Voice Literary Supplement, November 1982. Article about The Russian Revolution, by N.N. Sukhanov, out of print. [My article prompted Princeton University Press to reprint the book in 1984.]
Review of Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer, The Village Voice, January 5, 1982.
Review of The State of the World Atlas, by Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal, Voice Literary Supplement, November 1981.
Review of Woman's Creation, by Elizabeth Fisher, The Village Voice, October 1, 1979.
Review of For Her Own Good: 100 Years of the Experts Advice to Women, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, The Village Voice, February 5, 1979.
Review of The Bad Sister, by Emma Tennant, The Village Voice, October 16, 1978. (Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 1989.)
Review of About Men, by Phyllis Chesler, The Village Voice, September 18, 1978.
"Exploding the Motherhood Myth," review of The Mother Knot, by Jane Lazarre, The Village Voice, March 8, 1976.
"Polish Women Fight for Choice," New Directions for Women, March-April 1993.
"Network of East-West Women Opens to FSU," Surviving Together, Summer 1992.
"To the Bridge," The Village Voice, July 8, 1986.
"Private Thoughts About Public Schools," The Village Voice, September 29, 1981.
"Aid for Women," The Village Voice, October 30, 1978.
"Abortion on Trial," The Village Voice, October 9, 1978.
"City Planting," The Village Voice, September 25, 1978.
"Starting Over," The Village Voice, September 19, 1977; reprinted in Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Bosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, Basic Books, Basic Books, 2000.
"A Day Care Proposal," The Village Voice, August 16, 1976.
"How the Children Suffer," The Village Voice, May 31, 1976.
"When Is a Mother Not a Mother?" Women and Language News, vol. XIII, No. 1, 1990.
EDITING
Edited Love or Greatness: A Feminist Dialogue with Max Weber, by Roslyn Wallach Bologh, Allen & Unwin, 1990.
ACTIVITIES
- Board member, Network of East-West Women, 2000-2003
- Panelist, "Global Feminism: Women in the Crossfire: Voices from the Balkans," sponsored by the Crystal Quilt, New York, N.Y., October 23, 1999
- Co-organizer, with Nanette Funk, of workshop "Gender in Transition: Women in Europe," at Center for European Studies, NYU, 1993- present
- Conducted workshop on editing, New York City Scholastic Press Association, November 1997
- Conducted workshop on headlines and caption writing, New York City Scholastic Press Association, November 1996
- Guest speaker, Magazine Editing/Editorial Management course, New York University School of Continuing Education, March 6, 1995
- Institute for Study in Salzburg, presenter of talk, "Organizing and Talking East-West: A Case Study in Women's Issues," at 5th International Working Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, July 5-10, 1994
- Guest speaker, "American feminism," English Department, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 6, 1994
- Co-organizer of planning meeting to establish NEWW East-East Legal Committee, organized by Network of East-West Women, Budapest, Hungary, May 30-June 1, 1994
- Co-plaintiff, Tasini, et al. v. New York Times, et al., lawsuit concerning ownership of writers' electronic rights, 1994-1999
- Panelist, "Women in Eastern Europe," Hofstra University Women's Studies Program, November 4, 1993
- Organized and directed Seminar on Motherhood, New York Institute for the Humanities, 1990-93
- Attended "How Do Independent Women Organize Themselves Today in East and Central Europe?" conference organized by Frauen-Anstiftung, Jiloviste, Czechoslovakia, October 16-19, 1992
- Panel organizer, "Red Diaper Babies," at Socialist Scholars Conference, April 26, 1992
- Co-organizer, Network of East-West Women conference on Eastern and Central European feminism, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June 1991
- Guest lecturer, " 'I'd rather have a nervous breakdown,' or How to Write Your Thesis," CUNY Graduate Center, March 7, 1991
- Conducted workshop on story ideas, New York City Scholastic Press Association, November 1990
- Panelist, "Female Sexuality: Representation and Reality," Students Organizing Students conference, October 13, 1990
- Presenter, "Vanishing Difference in Women's Magazines: 'A Young Mother's Story' in Redbook, 1960-1985," on panel "Discourse(s) of Difference(s)," National Women's Studies Association, June 22, 1990
- Panelist, "Motherhood: Contemporary Problems," Eastern Sociological Society, March 24, 1990
- Talk, "Women in the Newsroom: organizing caucuses against sex discrimination in the 1970s and 1980s... and why we seem to keep repeating history," New York University, Women's History Month, March 18, 1988
- Judge, Newspaper Guild's Page One awards, 1987, 1988, 1989
- Participant, Technology Studies Seminar at Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University School of Journalism, July 1987
- Conducted workshop on layout, New York City Scholastic Press Association, April 3, 1987
- Attended "Mightier Than the Typewriter," conference on use of computers in journalism classrooms, at Syracuse University, December 1986
EDUCATION
- CUNY Graduate Center, M.A., Liberal Studies/Women's Studies, Fall 1989; Thesis: "Depoliticized Motherhood: How Women's Magazines Construct Motherhood: 1955-1985"
- College of the City of New York, B.A., History, 1969
- Antioch College
MEMBERSHIPS
- Network of East-West Women (co-founder)
- National Writers Union
- American Copy Editors Society
- Listed in Who's Who of American Women 1998
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