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Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives


Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives

Paperback by Pinsky, Dina

Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives

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ISBN:
9780252076770
Publication Date:
14 Dec 2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
Pages:
152 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 26 May 2024
Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives

Description

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 feminist Jews, of which five are men, Pinsky describes how these identities sometimes coincide or contrast. The book demonstrates that Jews share a unique relationship to gender, influenced by their experiences and perspectives as Jews. Pinsky adds to the feminist dialogue about cultural difference and intersectionality by exploring the narratives of a group that has long been absent from this discussion.

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