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Figuring Out Feminism
Jewish women shaped the American feminist movement, leading the charge for everything from women’s suffrage to birth control and workplace equality. Decades later, a new generation of women, Jewish and otherwise, are navigating their own nuanced relationships to feminism—what it means for their religious traditions, how it intersects with their politics, and how it inspires them as wives, friends, leaders, and mothers.

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My days amounted to sitting on my couch in a 400-square-foot apartment, my neighborhood a sea of strip malls rapidly being abandoned, as I did technical writing for a megacorporation
My days amounted to sitting on my couch in a 400-square-foot apartment, my neighborhood a sea of strip malls rapidly being abandoned, as I did technical writing for a megacorporation
The author, at far left, with her parents and brothers (her mother is at center) and a cousin, at right, at Michigan Airport in the 1960s
The author, at far left, with her parents and brothers (her mother is at center) and a cousin, at right, at Michigan Airport in the 1960s
Students at Stern College, 1964
Students at Stern College, 1964
Pauline Wengeroff, circa 1913
Pauline Wengeroff, circa 1913
Women members of Kibbutz Ein Harod work in the quarry, 1941.
Women members of Kibbutz Ein Harod work in the quarry, 1941.