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The Feminine Mystique

The Difference Between “Feminism” and “Jewish Feminism”

By Jackie Brettschneider, Research Intern, Center for Jewish History

Jewish women have played an important role in improving the rights of women in both the secular and Jewish communities. Some Jewish feminists chose to work for the rights of all women and some chose to work exclusively for women’s rights within the Jewish religion. This created a divide between the broader feminist movement that…

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50 years of The Feminine Mystique

by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History

“Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—’Is this all?’ ”
— Betty…

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