Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick write at The New Republic write about the struggles of an emergent form of…
Emergent feminism among Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
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Martha Nussbaum on religion, tolerance, and feminism
Recently, David Johnson, Web Editor at the Boston Review, interviewed Martha Nussbaum and discussed her new publication, The New Religious…
Religion and the body
The Scholar & Feminist Online, an e-journal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, recently launched a special…
Religious liberty, minorities, and Islam: An interview with Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and whose work raises challenging questions about…
Oprah, the Rorschach test
Focusing on Oprah as an icon/inkblot, we can use our reactions to her as a Rorschach test: What do we…
Feminist Review examines religion and spirituality
The current issue of Feminist Review is dedicated to the theme of religion and spirituality. In their opening editorial, Lyn…
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
The youth-driven Revolution of 2011, with its call for freedom and justice, is inscribing a new feminism, with a fresh…
Islamic feminism
Is secular feminism feasible in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim-majority nations of the world? Isobel Coleman, a Senior…
Reflections on Mormon feminism
The editors of Scholaristas---a new blog on women's religious history---have launched, as their inaugural forum, a discussion of the 1971…
Controversy over crimes against the Church
A day after the Vatican issued a new document revising the types of crimes one can commit against the Catholic…