Jewish Radical Feminism by Joyce Antler

Author:Joyce Antler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS036060 History / United States / 20th Century
Publisher: New York University Press

Figure 5.2. The first meeting of B’not Esh, 1981. Courtesy of Martha Ackelsberg.

As Plaskow has helped to create a transformative feminist Judaism, she has constantly transformed her own life. Central to her development, and that of the new directions in feminist Judaism that has accompanied it, has been the framework provided by women’s liberationists such as Naomi Weisstein and others, the “outsider/insider” perspective inherited from her youth, and her continually evolving, intersectional stance as a white woman, Jew, feminist scholar, and feminist theologian. A vital element, too, has been the force of community in her life, which she has both written about and lived through her involvement in several academic groups and especially with B’not Esh. She and Martha Ackelsberg are fond of quoting Margaret Mead’s words: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”82

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