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Movement seeks independence, one garden at a time

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, July 3, 2008

SCARBOROUGH, MAINE -- Kitchen Gardeners International is one link in a loose chain of partisans who are neither conservatives nor liberals but locavores. They want to think global, eat local. Very local. As in their front and back yard.

Motherhood mania suggests need for 'teachable moments'

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, June 26, 2008

BOSTON -- Why does it take the myth of the mommy pact to get attention? About two-thirds of our children have had sex before they graduate high school. Have they heard what we believe about sexuality, about relationships, about pleasure and responsibility?

Surgical re-virgins: Doctors offer second chance at 'purity'

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, June 19, 2008

BOSTON -- Gynecologists in Paris report women coming to them for certificates of virginity, and medical tourist packages take women to places such as Tunisia where the surgery is cheaper.

With Hillary out, here’s how women can ‘get even’

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Wednesday, June 11, 2008

BOSTON -- This has not been an easy week for ardent Hillary supporters who are being told to move on and move over to the Obama camp. The woman who looked improbably energetic and strong as she bowed out last Saturday reinforced both the respect and disappointment of her core supporters.

Obama could be president women want him to be

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Friday, May 30, 2008

BOSTON -- Somewhere in the waning hours of this interminable primary, I found myself channeling Barack Obama as he began a long overdue and eagerly anticipated conversation … on gender.

Democrats go from lovefest to food fight

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, May 22, 2008

BOSTON -- For Democrats, the sense of freshness, the pleasure of breaking barriers, has been nearly exhausted. We’ve gone from party lovefest to food fight, from having our eyes on the prize to feeling like partisans at a prizefight.

Were we right to rescue children from polygamous sect?

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, May 15, 2008

BOSTON -- The Texas story of children taken from parents, of families wrenched apart, has produced enormous concern and worry in the past weeks. Is this a rescue operation or a state-sponsored attack on parents? Should the state enforce a set of values or tolerate “alternative lifestyles” and religions?

Obama might reach women through his late mother

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, May 8, 2008

BOSTON -- Barack Obama will soon have to reach out to Hillary’s supporters, especially to women of a certain age who attached their hopes to having a woman in the White House. Obama has not yet had a “gender conversation” with those women.
What better link does he have than his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham?

Pay inequality is thief that keeps on taking

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, May 1, 2008

BOSTON -- The idea that the wage gap might be because of, um, sex discrimination seems soooo 20th century. In fact, the Supreme Court implied that Lilly Ledbetter’s lower paycheck was her own fault because she didn’t start investigating her employer for sex discrimination as soon as she started her job.

Senior moment: In Pennsylvania, older voters propel Hillary

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, April 24, 2008

BOSTON -- The quality that mattered most to exiting voters all across the age spectrum in Pennsylvania was who “can bring about needed change.” Yet the two groups on either end of the voting-age bell curve picked opposite change agents. Is there a clue to this grueling race?

Genealogy searches bring surprises

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, April 17, 2008

BOSTON -- Genealogical searches show that one generation’s shame becomes another’s rich tapestry. One generation’s secret becomes another’s source of wonder.

Surrogates make the whole world a baby-making marketplace

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, April 10, 2008

BOSTON -- In the last few months, we’ve have had a full nursery of international stories about surrogate mothers. Hundreds of couples are crossing borders in search of lower-cost ways to fill the family business.

In presidential choices, does our past anchor us or trap us?

- Thursday, April 3, 2008

BOSTON -- The geenration gap between Barack Obama and his pastor isn't the only one in this political season. You can find another in the demographics of women supporting Hillary or Barack. In many homes and around many tables, a comfortable sisterhood has split into mothers versus daughters, feminists versus post-feminists.

Gray area: When is someone too old to be president?

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, March 27, 2008

BOSTON -- We’ve been holding a heated conversation about race and gender all season. But age has been relegated to a late-night laugh line by the likes of David Letterman, 60, who described John McCain as “the kind of guy who picks up his TV remote when the phone rings.”

If bailout helps Bear Stearns, why not homeowners?

By ELLEN GOODMAN - Thursday, March 20, 2008

BOSTON -- If a financial firm is “too big to fail," why aren’t homeowners? They, too, are on the brink of destroying not only themselves but their communities.