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Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to make the religious, legal, and social status of Jewish women equal to that of Jewish men in Judaism. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major branches of the Jewish religion.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. This is an alphabetical list of Jewish feminists. Jewish feminists ... Jewish feminism; Judaism and ...
Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. [1] After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before becoming a professor emerita.
Feminist and socialist writer who networked Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Henri Saint-Simon, William Thompson (philosopher) and Flora Tristan, Desiree Veret [46] [45] 1700–1799: Mary Wollstonecraft: United Kingdom: 1759: 1797: Early pioneer proto-feminist. Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [25] [35] 1700–1799: Frances Wright ...
"Reflections on the Future of Jewish Feminism and Jewish Feminist Scholarship" in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 10 (2005) 218-224 The author holds the Gottesman Chair in Gender and Judaism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; founded and is the Director of Kolot: Center for Jewish Women and Gender Studies ...
First World Congress of Jewish Women, 1923; Jewish feminism. List of Jewish feminists; Women as theological figures. Women rabbis and Torah scholars; Rebbetzin (Yiddish) or Rabbanit (Hebrew) (Orthodox rabbi's wife) List of women in the Bible; Bais Yaakov (schools for Haredi girls) Niddah (menstruation laws)
In 1971, while identifying as an Orthodox Jew (though she previously and later identified as Reform Jewish), she published an article entitled "The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman," in Davka magazine; according to historian Paula Hyman, this article was a trailblazer in analyzing the status of Jewish women using feminism.
Feminist Jewish scholars point out the mistreatment of women in the Torah. They argue that it is an ethical imperative to engage in the interpretation of the Torah using a feminist lens. A Jewish Feminist critique of the Torah is attentive to phenomena in the text such as the absence, silence, distortion, or subjugation of women in the text.