The quest also led her to study another group of Jewish feminists: the women who were involved in Judaism or Jewish institutions and brought feminist critique to theology and practice. To answer these questions, Joyce Antler embarked on a historical quest to explore the relationship between Jewishness and feminism. First, when they were only about 3 percent of the US population, why were Jewish women such a large proportion of the ranks of radical feminists? And second, why did they not discuss Jewishness, either among themselves or with the greater public? Yet two foundational questions remain for scholars. The contours and the causation of their participation have certainly been the topics of speculation at numerous book clubs, dinner parties, and informal academic chatter. Both professional historians and interested observers have noted their voices. Jewish women seemed to loom large in second-wave feminism in the United States. Reviewed by Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University)Ĭommissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) New York: New York University Press, 2018. Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement.
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