Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives
Studying American Jewish feminism from the 1960s and '70s, Jewish Feminists examines how second-wave feminist activists retrospectively construct their identities as Jews and how these constructions have changed throughout their lives. Dina Pinsky argues that these Jewish feminists experience a sense of ambivalence as both feminists and Jews as they ask how being Jewish makes them different from other women (or feminist men). Drawing from interviews with more than two dozen second-wave...
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How Jewishness and feminism converged in the life histories of twentieth-century activists.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Chapter 1 Torah Warriors 21Chapter 2 Secular Adapters 43Chapter 3 Encountering Difference 60Chapter 4 Patriarchal Opposers 80Conclusion 95Appendix: Biographical Sketches 99Notes 115Index 131
