Judaism and Feminism

Individual Feminists:

Dianne Ashton

Laura Levitt

Internet Links

The Bridges Jewish Feminist Journal can be accessed here.

Judaism and

Feminism is also

available on

these country and U.S. ethnic group pages:

Bibliography

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Ashton, Dianne and Ellen M. Umansky, ed. Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality: A Sourcebook. Beacon Press, 1992.

Bach, Alice, ed. Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader. Routledge, 1998.

Bar-Ilan, Meir. Some Jewish Women in Antiquity. Scholars Press, 1998. [To read chapter summaries, click here.]

Beal, Timothy K. The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation and Esther. NY: Routledge, 1997.

Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament. Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

Brenner, Athalya. The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and 'Sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible. Brill Academic Pub., 1997.

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