“The Playpen of the Patriarchs”

Why we needed a conference on the empowerment of Jewish women

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“The Playpen of the Patriarchs”

The articles in this special section:

Bella Abzug

by Bella Abzug

Excerpts from the keynote address

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

E.M. Broner

by E.M. Broner

Spring 1989/5749

Family systems: pioneer therapist Olga Silverstein on life, love and Jewish identity; Harriet Lerner on sisters. Chicken farmers of southern New Jersey. Campus life for Jewish women. Gender in Jerusalem.

“The Playpen of the Patriarchs”

Down on the Farm

by Gertrude Dubrovsky

Sisters and Other Family Legacies

by Harriet Goldhor Lerner

Fall 2020

Did Alzheimers Turn My Husband into an Anti-Semite? • Parenting in the Pandemic • Objects and Their Hidden Lives • Forgiveness: When is it Possible?

Summer 2020

Informed predictions for the uncertain future • Farewell to shopping • Growing up Persian • Vivian Gornick & Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz revisited • 1930s feminist fiction — in Yiddish! • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives

Spring 2020

Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox