Writing

Anthony's home in Rochester—the centerpiece of this clip—remains a living symbol of the first stirrings of feminism in America.

This feminist disobedience, day after day, became a major story in the news, and by June we had secured an FDA warning to users of the Pill.

The cover of the first issue featured our artist's version of the Jewish superwoman, who managed to amalgamate almost all possible roles...

B'not Esh has provided a model for how separatist feminist spaces can generate ideas and energy that spill over in to a larger community.

More than ever, I believe in a feminism that does not run from the full complexity of women's lives, from the vital differences between us as well as the connections that bind us.

Our intention in turning it into a poster was to invite the world to look at a one-breasted woman and exult in her health and vitality.

Though the content of our mission is not specifically feminist, we have modeled feminist activism...

I knew also that if this magnificent story had been “lost” for 90 years, much more must have also been lost.

Twenty years ago, writing about Judaism from a feminist perspective, rather than discussing women from “Judaism's” point of view, seemed audacious.

[W]e realized that the title “Women and their Bodies” was itself a sign of our alienation from our bodies.

In the late 1960s, I began a journey “out of the patriarchy” towards territory unknown.

I was making a conscious decision to change my primary identity from ‘Jewish radical feminism’ to ‘feminist Jew.’

My critique was two–pronged: what Orthodoxy and feminism could learn from each other.

[I]t expresses the hope, the expectation even, that we will all come together to rejoice in our heritage...

I recited these blessings as though they had been written a couple of millennia ago by the rabbis, rather than the day before, by me.

V–World is the lives our mothers never got to live.

From this point on, feminist approaches to sexuality were complex and multifaceted...

It was obvious that birth was a universal human experience and one that is central to women's lives. Why were there no images?

In a sense, my first protest took place in 1946 when I refused to learn Yiddish (a decision that I of course regret) but insisted instead on learning Hebrew.

What captivated me was developing what amounted to a “unified field theory” by applying feminist methodology to explain all of Jewish history, culture, and psychology.

I can argue that my chosen path—to fight against physical harm, specifically the terror of violence against women—had its origins in what I had learned in Hebrew School...

This is a narrative of a community that is not in isolation but reflects the polis of the time.

The size and diversity of the gathering were strong evidence that we were not just disaffected individuals. We were a movement.