Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1945–2018)
Auteur van The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology
Over de Auteur
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was born Melanie Kaye in Brooklyn, New York on September 9, 1945. She received a bachelor's degree from City College of New York and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She went on to teach the university's first women's studies toon meer class. She also taught urban studies, race theory, public policy, Jewish studies, and gender and queer studies at Hamilton College, Goddard College, and Norwich University. She wrote several books including My Jewish Face and Other Stories; The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence, and Resistance; and The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. She and Irena Klepfisz edited The Tribe of Dina, an anthology of Jewish women's writings. She edited and published the lesbian literary and art journal Sinister Wisdom in the 1980s and was the first director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in the early 1990s. She died of Parkinson's disease on July 10, 2018 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Sinister Wisdom 32: Death, Healing, Mourning, and Illness (1987) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
Amazons 1 exemplaar
Kaye, Melanie Archive 1 exemplaar
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Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Medewerker — 71 exemplaren
Sinister Wisdom 43/44: The 15th Anniversary Retrospective (1991) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 20 exemplaren
Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities (1988) — Redacteur — 13 exemplaren
Sinister Wisdom 34: Special Issue on Lesbian Visions, Fantasy, Sci-Fi (1988) — Redacteur — 9 exemplaren
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The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence… door Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
An extraordinarily powerful work in two domains: feminism, and Jewish studies (though to a large extent these are dealt with separately, as the book is primarily a series of essays). Kaye/Kantrowitz is part of a robust tradition of Jewish lesbian feminists who were active in the 1980s and 1990s, and on antisemitism in particular her account of how prevailing paradigms of oppression to not adequately encompass the Jewish case -- failing to reckon with how *power* (perceived and actual) intersects with antisemitic domination -- remains unrivaled decades later. But her discussion of violence in women's spaces -- both in negative cases (i.e., domestic violence among lesbian couples) and positive cases (the use of violence against abusive men) also remains bracing. An underrated classic.… (meer)
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