ARTICLES
THE NEW WOMAN
Eros and the Office
Are women wasting unused "erotic capital"? Is workplace decorum a plot to keep women down? Laurie Abraham investigates a new book
ELLE, July 2011
Botox, Cosmetic Fillers, and the Meaning of Beauty
Most of us want to look pretty, but how far should we go in the quest? And are we inadvertently hurting—or helping—anyone else along the way?
ELLE, March 2011
WARRIORS FOR A CAUSE
Mr. Obama Goes to Washington
Senator Barack Obama, the face of a new generation of American Leadership, takes an extraordinary journey to the land of his father.
ELLE, December 2006
Anatomy of a Whistleblower
Is Jesselyn Radack's story typical of what happens to those who speak against the Bush administration? Or is hers a more complicated tale?
Mother Jones, January/February 2004
Diagnosis: Hysteria (PDF, 744kb)
A controversial Princeton professor says Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War syndromes, not to mention alien abductions, are all in sufferers’ heads.
Mirabella, March/April 1997
Pay Up, Pardner (PDF, 1.05mb)
Cowboy collectors tighten the reins on deadbeat dads.
Village Voice, October 18, 1994
SEX AND MARRIAGE
Laurie Abraham on The Marriage Ref
The Husbands and Wives Club author’s analysis of Jerry Seinfeld’s new show.
ELLE, March 2010
Ignorance is Bliss
She doesn't know the bank balances, and that's the way she likes it.
ELLE, August 2008
Can This Marriage Be Saved?
In a yearlong therapy group, a therapist and several troubled couples examine whether a crumbling union can be put back together again.
New York Times Magazine, August 12, 2007
Kinsey & Me
A visit to still controversial sexologist Alfred Kinsey’s storied institute to plumb the mysteries of female desire.
ELLE, January 2005
The Landscape of Desire (PDF, 1.16mb)
A search for our collective carnal knowledge starts with Saint Augustine and ends with a modern guru who promises that marriage is an erotic institution, after all.
Mirabella, November 1999
POLITICS OF MEDICINE
Beating Breast Cancer and the System
When hedge-fund strategist Dee Dee Ricks got breast cancer at 39, she decided that the best way to get better was by doing good
ELLE, October 2011
Separation Anxiety
After a Manhattan neurosurgeon separated head-joined twins from the Philippines, a fight began over just what, exactly, he accomplished.
New York Magazine, August 14, 2005
The Perfect Little Bump
Many of the city’s mothers-to-be are counting every carb to stay skinny and sexy. Harmless vanity? Or a NYC obsession gone too far?
New York Magazine, May 21, 2005
Dr. Smith Goes to Sexual Rehab School (PDF, 702kb)
Accused of sexual misconduct with patients, a Minnesota family practitioner gets a 90’s-style lesson in boundaries.
New York Times Magazine, November 5, 1995
In Vitro We Trust (PDF, 936kb)
What happens when the reproductive technology is applied to messy human lives? Here, the story of a 53-year-old woman and the medical establishment that held her fate in its hands.
Mirabella, October 1997
The Myth of the Sexist Doc (PDF, 2.01mb)
Maybe you think physicians talk down to women and give them inferior care. But a special Health investigation tells a more unnerving story.
Health, September 1997
Ticked Off
Thousands of NJ parents felt relief when their sick kids got a Lyme disease diagnosis. Then the CDC called the epidemic bogus…
Health, March/April 1995
MOTHERHOOD
Who's the Fairest Wife of All?
Caitlin Flanagan is a thoroughly modern woman who—what have we here?—seems to think that a mother’s place is in the home.
ELLE, April 2006
Genie in a Bottle
Mother’s little helper used to be valium, but some frazzled moms are seeking solace in a stealthier lubricant.
ELLE, March 2006
Who You Callin' Mother?
Everybody’s an expert on what kind of mother you should be. A new book asks what kind of mother do you want to be?
ELLE, April 2004
Daddy Dearest (PDF, 800kb)
What happens when he does more than his half?
The Bitch Is In the House, August 2002