Contents

Introduction

Part I: “We Never Talked about It”: Jewishness and Women’s Liberation

1. “Ready to Turn the World Upside Down”: The “Gang of Four,” Feminist Pioneers in Chicago

2. “Feminist Sexual Liberationists, Rootless Cosmopolitan Jews”: The New York City Movement

3. “Conscious Radicals”: The Jewish Story of Boston’s Bread and Roses

4. Our Bodies and Our Jewish Selves: The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective

Part II: “Feminism Enabled Me to Be a Jew”: Identified Jewish Feminists

5. “We Are Well Educated Jewishly . . . and We Are Going to Press You”: Jewish Feminists Challenge Religious Patriarchy

6. “Jewish Women Have Their Noses Shortened”: Secular Feminists Fight Assimilation

7. “For God’s Sake, Comb Your Hair! You Look like a Vilde Chaye”: Jewish Lesbian Feminists Explore the Politics of Identity

8. “Rise above the World’s Nasty Squabbles”: International Dimensions of Jewish Feminism

Conclusion

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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