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Women's Studies

Cover of No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan
Chil­dren’s
No Steps Behind: Beate Siro­ta Gordon’s Bat­tle for Women’s Rights in Japan
Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.)
Essay

Fre­quen­cy Hop­ping: The Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s Books

Emi­ly Schneider
May 25, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
Miri­am at the River
Jane Yolen; Khoa Le, illus.
Interview

A Con­ver­sa­tion with Pamela Nadell

JBC Staff, Pamela S. Nadell
May 5, 2020
Essay

‘The Obvi­ous Hero­ine’: Anna Solomon on the Book of Esther

Anna Solomon
May 4, 2020
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Non­fic­tion
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Wom­en’s Voic­es from the Gulag
Monika Zgustova; Julie Jones, trans.
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Fic­tion
The Con­vert
Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans.
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Fic­tion
The Book of V. 
Anna Solomon
From the Journal

A Wom­an’s Voice: Books by Four Redis­cov­ered Authors

Ruth Andrew Ellenson
March 26, 2020
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Her Sto­ry, My Sto­ry? Writ­ing About Women and the Holocaust
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.)
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Andrea Dworkin: The Fem­i­nist as Revolutionary
Martin Duberman
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I Am My Moth­er’s Daugh­ter: Wis­dom on Life, Loss, and Love
Dara Kurtz
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Here She Is: The Com­pli­cat­ed Reign of the Beau­ty Pageant in America
Hilary Lev­ey Friedman
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Fun­ny, You Don’t Look Like a Rab­bi: A Mem­oir of Unortho­dox Transformation
Lyn­n­da Targan
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Me, My Self­ie & Eye: A Midlife Con­ver­sa­tion About Lost Iden­ti­ty, Grief, and See­ing Who You Are
Jan­na Lopez
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The Sound of Her Voice
Sara Gel­bard
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