Sarah M. Seltzer
I don’t know how to handle small worries anymore.
Back-to-School Blues and Our Rush to Return to Normal
Author: Sarah M. Seltzer
More on the “Jewish Jane Austen”
Lilith staff
A nearly-forgotten. novel of forbidden interfaith love.
Why Jews of Color Are Gathering as a Family This Weekend
Sarah M. Seltzer
An interview with Dr. Harriette Wimms, founder of the JOC Mishpacha Project.
The Pop Culture That Got Lilith’s Staff Through 2020
Lilith Staff
Before we say goodbye to 2020, here are our recommendations for the books, podcasts, television shows that helped us make it through the year.
I Thought I Was Jo: Revisiting “Little Women.”
Sarah M. Seltzer
Little Women’s classic journey from girlhood to womanhood is extra poignant on the other side of the divide.
A Romantic Novel That Acknowledges the Limits of Romance
Sarah M. Seltzer
Miriam Parker’s The Shortest Way Home goes deeper than its bubbly, clear surface, subtly questioning conventional definitions of success for its heroine, Hannah, who begins the novel with a lucrative job and a rich boyfriend.
The Patriarchy-Free Paradise of “Mamma Mia!”
Sarah M. Seltzer
Kalokairi, the fictional Greek island where Donna Sheridan decamps, is a matriarchal paradise: the animals are friendly and the men in thrall to the self-assured women who run things. It’s a place where “having it all” means having cake, dancing, and feeding other people cake while they dance.
More Summer Page-Turners and Pleasure Reads
Sarah M. Seltzer
Here are a few more 2018 books, ranging from slight to serious, that should give Jewish feminist readers (and indeed, all readers) something to curl up with as the summer hits its sultry stride.
The Bitches of the 1990s Weren’t Villains After All
Sarah M. Seltzer
These women were what I called bitchified–undermined and objectified, their progress thwarted by emerging media narrative that called them bitches and every derivative. The sexism was shocking to uncover.