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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Amazones - Toonaangevende Fantasy schrijfsters verhalen over vrouwen die het zwaard durven trekken ... (1979) — Medewerker — 240 exemplaren
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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- 1945-09-09
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- 2018-07-09
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
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- City College of New York
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|Comparative Literature) - Beroepen
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