Issue #12

Issue 12 | Summer 2000

In every issue

Editor's Note—Identity crisis
Dear Bitch
Love It/Shove It
Ask Yer Dead Foremama—Mary Wollstonecraft weighs in on domestic arrangements
Bitch Reads/Suggested Listening
Appendices: suffixes, Queens, and hairy armpits

Plus

||| A Natural History of Rape's shoddy science
||| the Rules redux and clothing-label hierarchies

Features

||| Ready, Aim, Dyer—An interview with Action Girl's Sarah Dyer
||| La Cage aux Follicles—Waxing conflicted on the subject of hair removal
||| Bohemian Rhapsody—Chatting with author and critic Ann Powers
||| When We Were Kings—Performing gender in drag city
||| Where's the Butch?—Prime-time TV's flowy-haired, peasant-skirted vision of lesbians
||| Testostifyin'—The Man Show and The X Show teach men to be boys
||| Charmed and Dangerous—A celluloid witchapalooza
||| Notes From Underground—An interview with journalist/playwright Paula Kamen
||| SAF Doesn't Seek WM w/ Asian Fetish—seeking a cure for Yellow Fever