Nelly Las is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Helen Gartner Hammer Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her interests include comparative Jewish diasporas in cross-cultural and gender perspectives. She is the author of Jewish Women in a Changing World: A History of the International Council of Jewish Women, originally published in French and available in English. Ruth Morris is a freelance translator and researcher.

"This volume privileges the voices and experiences of women and so should be required reading for those interested in feminist theory, Middle Eastern politics, and/or religious identity."-CHOICE "Nelly Las offers a transnational approach to analyzing the intersections of feminism and Jewishness."-Joyce Antler, Springer Journal “On a matter that concerns us today-the question of identity-Nelly Las examines the diversity, contradictions, and complexities of various ‘Jewish voices’ in French and American feminism during the last half century. This thought-provoking book helps us to better hear and understand these voices in the context of our time.”-Michelle Perrot, coeditor of the History of Women in the West series and 2014 winner of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Orientations and Commitments in Contemporary Feminism1. Differences and Identities: From Feminist Controversies to Current Jewish Dilemmas2. The Use and Abuse of Jews/Women Analogies in Contradictory Arguments3. Identity through the Feminist Lens: American Responses4. Being Jewish and Feminist in France5. From Confrontation to Dialogue: Jewish Women Face Christian Theologies6. Feminism, Secularism, and Religion in France7. Feminism and Zionism: Conflictual Narratives8. Israel and Zionism in the Global Feminist DebateConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

Nelly Las is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Helen Gartner Hammer Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her interests include comparative Jewish diasporas in cross-cultural and gender perspectives. She is the author of Jewish Women in a Changing World: A History of the International Council of Jewish Women, originally published in French and available in English. Ruth Morris is a freelance translator and researcher.

"This volume privileges the voices and experiences of women and so should be required reading for those interested in feminist theory, Middle Eastern politics, and/or religious identity."-CHOICE "Nelly Las offers a transnational approach to analyzing the intersections of feminism and Jewishness."-Joyce Antler, Springer Journal “On a matter that concerns us today-the question of identity-Nelly Las examines the diversity, contradictions, and complexities of various ‘Jewish voices’ in French and American feminism during the last half century. This thought-provoking book helps us to better hear and understand these voices in the context of our time.”-Michelle Perrot, coeditor of the History of Women in the West series and 2014 winner of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Orientations and Commitments in Contemporary Feminism1. Differences and Identities: From Feminist Controversies to Current Jewish Dilemmas2. The Use and Abuse of Jews/Women Analogies in Contradictory Arguments3. Identity through the Feminist Lens: American Responses4. Being Jewish and Feminist in France5. From Confrontation to Dialogue: Jewish Women Face Christian Theologies6. Feminism, Secularism, and Religion in France7. Feminism and Zionism: Conflictual Narratives8. Israel and Zionism in the Global Feminist DebateConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

Nelly Las is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Helen Gartner Hammer Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her interests include comparative Jewish diasporas in cross-cultural and gender perspectives. She is the author of Jewish Women in a Changing World: A History of the International Council of Jewish Women, originally published in French and available in English. Ruth Morris is a freelance translator and researcher.

"This volume privileges the voices and experiences of women and so should be required reading for those interested in feminist theory, Middle Eastern politics, and/or religious identity."-CHOICE "Nelly Las offers a transnational approach to analyzing the intersections of feminism and Jewishness."-Joyce Antler, Springer Journal “On a matter that concerns us today-the question of identity-Nelly Las examines the diversity, contradictions, and complexities of various ‘Jewish voices’ in French and American feminism during the last half century. This thought-provoking book helps us to better hear and understand these voices in the context of our time.”-Michelle Perrot, coeditor of the History of Women in the West series and 2014 winner of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Orientations and Commitments in Contemporary Feminism1. Differences and Identities: From Feminist Controversies to Current Jewish Dilemmas2. The Use and Abuse of Jews/Women Analogies in Contradictory Arguments3. Identity through the Feminist Lens: American Responses4. Being Jewish and Feminist in France5. From Confrontation to Dialogue: Jewish Women Face Christian Theologies6. Feminism, Secularism, and Religion in France7. Feminism and Zionism: Conflictual Narratives8. Israel and Zionism in the Global Feminist DebateConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex