What did Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour mean when she said that Zionists can’t be feminists? Why did a recent ADL video single out the National Women’s Studies Association for its egregious antisemitism? How could feminists dismiss or even justify the sexual violence experienced by Israeli women on October 7, 2023 — particularly just a few years after #MeToo? Jewish women have been flummoxed by developments that have left them feeling like outsiders in the feminist movement they did so much to create and support. Feminist Antisemitism: An Intellectual History is the first book to show how, as different versions of feminism competed, a feminism that does not seek mainstream feminist goals like equal rights or treatment has become predominant. It explains the trajectory from early antipathy to Betty Friedan to the complicated antizionist theories feminists like Judith Butler advance today and explores what might set feminism on a different path. It will appeal to Jewish women, young and old, and others who care about feminism, Jewish identity, and contemporary debates around education reform and free speech.
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