MAKING STORIES, MAKING SELVES: FEMINIST REFLECTIONS ON THE HOLOCAUST by R. Ruth Linden [Ohio State University Press], $39.50 hardcover; $14.95 paper This very feminist book, by a post positivist ethnographer,…
…refused to hold a mirror for themselves, to seek out the interrelatedness of their own history, social structure, and ideology. Why are American Jewish women so little studied at all?…
…up responsibilities, handle feelings of imbalance, resentment, guilt. Our gendered selves wrestle with issues in ways that don’t fall neatly along gender lines. It is important that we work this…
…desire to put reproductive healthcare decision-making in the hands of those most affected by it: women themselves. But, as the current social and political climate around women’s rights, gender and…
…Together’s Reproductive Justice media guide explains: The reproductive justice framework is rooted in the recognition of the histories of reproductive oppression and abuse in communities of color…The central theme of…
…be the “intended parents” themselves. The infertile women soliciting these eggs are looking for egg donors who are, in many ways, themselves half a generation younger. Or perhaps like an…
…the right to determine one’s own reproductive future, once guaranteed by Roe, may hang by a thread. With Roe in possible jeopardy, now is the time for advocates of reproductive…
…What are the best ways to mobilize Jewish women for reproductive freedom? Many of the most dedicated, dependable groups of women who are involved in reproductive rights are Jewish women’s…
Merle Hoffman is a pioneer of reproductive healthcare access. In 1971, she co-founded the Flushing Women’s Medical Center (now Choices Women’s Medical Center) in Queens, NY. Governed by the principle…
…CEO and founder of SisterReach, a Memphis based non-profit which supports women, LGBTQIA+ people and their families via the reproductive justice framework. In 2016, SisterReach and other reproductive justice advocates…
