Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement by Joyce Antler (review)

The activist profiles include stories of Jewish women who were central to women's liberation struggles, the women's health movement, reproductive rights groups, organizations of the religiously observant seeking to transform Jewish prayer, liturgy and theology, lesbian feminist collectives...

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Published in:American Jewish history 2019-07, Vol.103 (3), p.371-373
Main Author: Orleck, Annelise
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Activism
Activists
Children
Dialectics
Families & family life
Feminism
Gender
Gordon, Linda
Holocaust
Independence movements
Jewish people
Judaic studies
Nazi era
Nonfiction
Plaskow, Judith
Politics
Racism
Religious orthodoxy
Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Social classes
Theology
Women
Womens health
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Summary:The activist profiles include stories of Jewish women who were central to women's liberation struggles, the women's health movement, reproductive rights groups, organizations of the religiously observant seeking to transform Jewish prayer, liturgy and theology, lesbian feminist collectives, anti-racist campaigns and more. The women she interviewed reflect on upbringings in Orthodox families, in secular Yiddishist milieus, as the offspring of Warsaw Ghetto resistance leaders or Holocaust survivors, as child survivors themselves, as children of communist activists, socialist trade unionists or of middle class assimilationist professionals. According to Kate Millet, whose equally ground-shaking book, Sexual Politics, came out shortly before Firestone's, the young author was destroyed by malicious critical responses, red-baiting, and the jealousy of fellow feminists who resented what Antler calls "the avalanche of publicity" that befell her after the publication of Dialectic.
ISSN:0164-0178
1086-3141
1086-3141
DOI:10.1353/ajh.2019.0035