ANGELA BONAVOGLIA 

Quik Links:

• Huffpost
• Ms. online
• The Nation
• Religion Dispatches
• Rewire
• Women's Media Center

Some selected works: 

 

Ms.Magazine

Longtime contributor, former contributing editor

• "Scranton, Suffragettes, My Grandma Maggie, and Me"
• "Called to Account: Inside the Feminist Fight to End Clergy Sex Abuse"
• "The Innocents Tackles Women, Faith and Rape in War"
• "Living Lopsided in a Symmetrical World" (after breast cancer)
• "Sisters Act: US Nuns Respond to Vatican Pressure"
• “A Joyful Defiance: In spite of church, women ordained as Catholic priests”
• "New Battleground for Survivors of Priest Child Sex Abuse"
• "Cardinal Sins," about then NY Cardinal Egan's lobbying trip to Albany
• "Making Love in the Dark, anchor piece for special section on STDs
• "Confused by the Rules@ (on sexual harassment at work, co-writer Ms. editor Gloria Jacobs).
• "After Prozac,"personal essay
• "Late-Term Abortion: Separating Fact from Fiction," cover story.
• "Breaking the Blue Wall of Silence," Profile of NYC Police Officer Daisy Boria.
• "Clothes Encounters: Ms. Goes to the Fall Fashion Shows"
• Interviews with breast cancer survivors for special issue on "The Politics of Breast Cancer"
• "The Sacred Secret,@ investigative report on clergy sexual abuse in the U.S."
• "Kathy's Day in Court," on first teenager to go to court in Alabama to obtain permission for an abortion, cover story.
• "The Ordeal of Pamela Rae Stewart," on nation's first prosecution for fetal abuse, nominated by Ms. for a National Magazine Award.

Medium

• "It's Not Just Covid, It's the Cruelty It Exposes"
• "Liz Lerman Shares" Her 'Me Too' Moment, Keynotes Women, Dance Leadership Conference"

The Nation

• The Fight to Save the Affordable Care Act is Really a Class Battle
• American Nuns: Guilty as Charged?
• Does the Pope Care About Workers’ Rights?
• The Church's Tug of War--Women a Driving Force in Catholic Church Reform
  

Newsday

• “Pope’s Test: Women’s Place in Ministry” (reprinted in Miami Herald, Contra Costa Times, other newspapers).
• "Striptease to Bare Our Fears," essay on the death of performance artist Danitra Vance from breast cancer at the age of 33
• "Does Hollywood Hate Women?"

Next Avenue

• Dreaming of Dancing with Twyla Tharp

New York Daily News

• In Prostitution Raids, Let's Remember Men Break the Law, Too

The Chicago Tribune

Years of features, essays, opeds and news briefs for the WomanNews section of the Chicago Tribune--e.g.:

• "Forgotten in the Flock? Catholic Church Shows Little Mercy to Women Victims"
•  "Oh Happy Day, on the ordination of Mary Ramerman to the priesthood in the Old CatholicChurch"
•  "A Networking Pioneer Broadens Her Reach," my profile of Janet Tiebout Hanson
•  "Drawn to Wounded Ground," on my visit to Ground Zero, NYC
•  "Ready for Prime Time: Networks Should Address Realities of Condom Use"
•  "At Issue: Will Other Doors Open? Debating Bush's Closing of the Women's Office".
•  "Dozens of Cookies Later, the Hunger Still Isn't Satiated--What Are Americans Hungry for?"
•  "For A Time, Living in the Past Was Pleasant," on Penny Marshall's filming of Riding in Cars with Boys on location in Westchester, New York.
•  "Unwanted Pregnancies and Society's Tacit Complicity," on the sentencing of Amy Grossberg for the death of her newborn
•  "The Unfinished Revolution," (profile of author/activist Susan Brownmiller) and Chicago Was at Center of Feminist Activity (sidebar)

Religion Dispatches 

• Why Changes in Reporting Won't Fix the Catholic Church's Sexual Abuse Problem,
  
• In Sexual Abuse Hearing, UN Calls Holy See on Girls' Reproductive Rights
• Debating Death: Is It Really the End?
• Barbara Ehrenreich's Wild God Is Not Here to Help

 Rewire

• Missouri and the Fight forAbortion Rights: How Past Became Prologue
•  UN Child Rights Panel Defends Children and Girls, Throws Down Gauntlet to Holy See,
•  The Bishops and Birth Control:  It's Not About the Money

Redbook

• "My Surgeon Made a Terrifying Error," personal essay on wrong-site surgery

 Triquarerly Review

• "Bedtimes," essay in "Strong Medicine" issue, edited by Donna Seaman

 Women's Media Center

• "Rape Culture Unmasked: Roll Red Roll Comes to Theaters and PBS' POV"
• "Pope Watch: The Mainstream Media, like Francis, Needs to Do Better By Women"
• "Women Leaders Take Center Stage at Athena"
• "The Synod's Final Document: Where Are the Women?"
•  "A Female Gaze? Athena Film Festival Asks, Answers"
•  "Losing Larry Wilmore and Why It Matters--to TV, Women and the Nation"

 Women and Hollywood

• "Tribeca's First-Ever TV Festival Reflected Changing Tides for Women in TV"

 Huffpost (one of scores blogs--see Quik Links, above)

• "For Pope Francis, A "To Do" List on Women"
• "Friend, Feminist, Unsung Hero: In Praise of Mary Thom"
• A Feminist Contrarian's Take on the Oscar Nominations(Also, CWCW Blog
• "An Aspiring Memoirist Shares Her Top Five Challenges"
  

  (Also, CWCW Blog)

 

ARTICLE/ESSAY EXCERPTS IN BOOKS

• "Blindsided," my personal essay in Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing  (Beacon Books, 2020), with a foreword by Joyce Maynard, afterword by Anita Hill.

• "Making Love in the Dark," published in Ms., anchor piece for special section on STDs, reprinted in Reading Women's Lives, 3rd Edition, Women's Studies Department, Ohio State University, 2003.

• "Confused by the Rules" (on sexual harassment at work, co-written with Ms. editor Gloria Jacobs, published in Ms.), reprinted in textbook entitled Human Sexuality (McGraw Hill, 2000) and an anthology entitled Sexual Harassment (Greenhaven Press, 2000).

• "Kathy's Day in Court," Ms. cover story, on first teenager to go to court in Alabama to obtain permission for an abortion; reprinted in Transforming a Movement:  From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom (South End Press, Boston, 1990) and Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen).

• "Women and…?"  (about the decision to be child-free). Originaly published as an essay in Conscience, magazine of Catholics for Choice, published as a monologue in Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom (ed. Cindy Cooper with Stacey Linnartz) and performed at the  Words of Choice Reproductive Freedom Festival. 
  
  
• "The Church's Tug of War--Women a Driving Force in Catholic Church Reform," The Nation, August 19, 2002, reprinted in Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror (Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002).

•  “The Illegal Days,” my interview with Grace Paley that appears in The Choices We Made, published in Paley's memoir and final book, Just As I Thought.

• Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women. Two excerpts ("A Father's Story" and Kathy Najimy's story) from my book "The Choices We Made" featured in “Words of Choice,” pro-choice theater by Cynthia Cooper.

• DSM IV Case book of the American Psychiatric Association, “A Visit to Food Hell.”

 

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