The Tea Party and Angry white Women
Dissent, Winter 2012
Ayn Rand: A Romantic, Secular Libertarian
Review of Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the America Right,
Reviews in American History, March 2011
The Tea Party and the new right-wing Christian feminism
www.opendemocracy.net, 50.50 inclusive democracy, July 5, 2010
Why You Should Fear Your Sofa, Baby Stroller and Nursing Pillow
www.alternet.org, January 18, 2010
Review: Skylight, Shotgun Players
www.shotgunplayers.com, April 21, 2009
Review: Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
by Edward Berkowitz, Journal of International Social History, Winter, 2009
Why has there been no female president?
Review of Women and Politics, Women’s Review of Books, Winter, 2009
Democracy in Action
Dissent, Winter 2008
Review: "Inside Ms." by Mary Thom
Women’s Review of Books, Summer, 2008
Ruth Rosen on ‘The Populist Vision’
A review of Charles Postel's The Populist Vision, Truthdig.org, Spring, 2008
Review: "Work, Life and Family Imbalance:  How to Level the Playing Field"
by Michele A. Paludi and Presha E. Neidermeyer, International Journal of Social Welfare, Spring, 2008
Review: "Something Happened: A political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies,"
A review of Edward Berkowitz, Journal of Social History,  Summer, 2008
Review: of "Iran Agenda"
A review of Reese Erlich's Iran Agenda, San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 2007
Punched in the stomach
Dissent, October 9, 2007
Review: "Rising Women Float All Boats"
A review of Ellen Bravo's Taking on the Big Boys, San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2007
And you’re worried about oil? 
A review of Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water, San Francisco Chronicle,  March 18, 2007
The Care Crisis
Cover Story,  The Nation, March 12, 2007
Review: "Coming to Terms with Father"
A review of Bettina Aptheker’s memoir Intimate Politics, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2006
Review: Toxic Terror
Dissent, Winter, 2005
Review: "Is Marriage Dead?"
A review of Stephanie Koonz's A History of Marriage, Dissent, Fall, 2005
Review: "Our Founding Mothers"
A review on carol Berkin's Our Founding Mothers, Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 27, 2005
"The Feminist Revolution in California"
What's Going On? California and the Vietnam Era, U.C. Press, 2004
Genres of History
Journal of American History, Summer 2004
An exchange among historians who teach the public in through novels, journalism, and film. 
The Women's Movement in the Bay Area
The Whole World is Watching, Berkeley Art Association, Berkeley, CA, 2001
Tish Sommer
Commissioned Entry to Notable American Women Encyclopedia
Feminism
Commissioned Entry For Oxford Companion to American History
Arming the Heavens
San Francisco Chronicle, Editorial, March, 2001, reprinted in PeaceWork
When Women Spied on Women
The Nation, August 20, 2000
The Longest Revolution
Dissent, Spring, 2000
The New Deal: His and Hers
Dissent, Winter, 2000
The Longest Revolution—Writing the Women's Movement
The Women's Review of Books, February, 2000
Review: A Useful Life, The Early Years of the Life of Jane Addams
A review of Gioa Diliberto's A Useful Life, Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, August, l999
Review: Untold Stories
A review of Betty Friendan's Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique and Daniel Horowitz's The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism, Dissent, Fall, l999
Review: Thinking Globally, Acting Globally
A review of Leila J. Rupp's, Worlds of Women: the Making an International Women's Movement, Women's Review of Books, June, l998
Is The Future Feminist? The Global Impact of the Women's Rights Movement
Living the Legacy, National Women's History Project Journal, distributed to k-12 in the United States. Dec. 1997. Reprinted by American Association of University Women, Outlook, Spring l998; Healing, June, l998
The Female Generation Gap: Daughters of the Fifties
U.S. History as Women's History, University of North Carolina, l996
Feminism
A commissioned entry to Encyclopedia of the American Left, Spring, 1990. Updated and rewritten, l996
Review: Dubious Conceptions
A review of Kristin Luker's Dubious Conceptions, Women's Review of Books, November 1995
Hype or History
Dissent, Fall, l995
Welfare Moms: America's Greatest Enemy?
Tikkun, January/February, l995
Who Gets Polluted
Dissent, Spring, l995
Domestic Disarmament
Dissent, Winter, l995
Not Pornography
Dissent, Summer, 1995
The Politics of Trauma
Dissent, Winter, 1994
Letter to Jirina Siklova: On American Feminism and Gender Democracy
Dissent, Fall l991
Reprinted in Die Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefts, 11: Nov. L020-l027, and in Slovenske Poholday, 11: (l991) and in Praha and Pariz, Fall l993, 47-50
When Men Became Boys
Tikkun, September/October, 1993
Gendering War Talk
Women's Review of Books, September, 1993
Stand by Your Woman
Dissent, Fall, 1992
Sex, Lies and Vulnerability
Tikkun, January/February, 1992
Feminism's Dubious Debts
Women's Review of Books, September, 1991
Getting Out of the House: Women in Public Life
Women's Review of Books, June, 1990
Women and Democracy in Czechoslovakia
Peace and Democracy News, Fall, 1990
The Day They Buried Traditional Womanhood
The Legacy: Vietnam in the American Imagination, ed. Michael Schaefer, Beacon, l990
Male Democracies, Female Dissidents
Tikkun, November, 1990
A Class For Itself
Tikkun, January/Feburary, 1990
The Day They Buried Traditional Womanhood
The Legacy: Vietnam in the American Imagination, ed. Michael Schaefer, Beacon, l990
Historically Compromised
Tikkun, July, 1989
Feminism and Liberalism
Tikkun, November, 1988
A Serious Case of Deja a Vu
The Women's Review of Books, December, 1987
The Need for Memory
Tikkun: A Bi-Monthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture, and Society, July/August, 1987
Search for Yesterday: American Soap Operas and the Myth of Community
Watching Television, ed. Todd Gitlin, Pantheon, l987