![]() ![]() Disproportionately represented in the movement, Jewish women’s liberationists helped to provide theories and models for radical action that were used throughout the United States and abroad. ![]() Delving into archival sources and conducting extensive interviews with these fierce pioneers, Joyce Antler has at last broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity.Īntler’s exhilarating new book features dozens of compelling biographical narratives that reveal the struggles and achievements of Jewish radical feminists in Chicago, New York and Boston, as well as those who participated in the later, self-consciously identified Jewish feminist movement that fought gender inequities in Jewish religious and secular life. This has left many vital questions unasked and unanswered-until now. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews. ![]() Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishersįifty years after the start of the women’s liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other ![]()
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