Jewess
Why so few Jews in romance novels? This author and bookseller is leading a charge to change that
“There’s this idea that Jewish women weren’t happy, so how can we write romance about it? Any time can be terrible, but people are falling in love.”
Let’s Take Back ‘Jewess’ From The Anti-Semites
Heck, yeah, I want my own word that describes just how special I am!
Towards a More Democratic Feminism
In a just-posted Newsweek article, Jessica Bennett discusses her discovery of feminism at age 28. She writes that it wasn’t until she entered the workforce that she realized that things weren’t nearly as equal as she thought they would be:
'Jewess' in a Bind
I recently blogged the Details article on “the rise of the hot Jewish girl” — an article about which Leah writes here. That article aside, there are a couple of inherent difficulties in the vocabularies we use to discuss vacuous, fetishized celebrity nonsense, often the bread and butter of glossy magazine spreads.