Revolutionary Legacies

Marla Brettschneider is Professor of Political Theory, with a joint appointment in the Politics and Feminist Studies Departments, at the University of New Hampshire. She is the editor of Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century and author of Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality, both also published by SUNY Press.

"Revolutionary Legacies successfully shows that being Jewish is a multivalent way of existing. Each of the women featured in the book is Jewish in her own way and engages with Jewish feminist political thinking uniquely. By positioning these women in their historical contexts and cultural milieux, Brettschneider offers readers fascinating new ways of thinking alongside these women." — Reading Religion"I love this book! Readable, instructional, insightful, and smart, Revolutionary Legacies brings together a variety of politically active twentieth-century Jewish women who are often taught in Jewish studies and beyond, but who are seldom brought together using Jewish binding. Brettschneider binds them in novel, previously unimagined ways, disrupting disciplinary divisions and complicating Western understandings of Judaism." — Stephen J. Stern, coauthor of Reclaiming the Wicked Son: Finding Judaism in Secular Jewish Philosophers"Marla Brettschneider has brought her considerable talents as a theorist to this book—reconceptualizing the question of Jewish identity, feminist identity, and political thought, while offering new ways of engaging with the work and legacies of these women. There are no other books of this kind." — Jenny Caplan, author of Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Jamaica Kincaid: Diasporic and De-colonial Interstices3. Golda Meir: Smashing Binaries of Gender, Diaspora, and Anticolonialism4. Hannah Arendt: Rahel Varnhagen and Diasporic De-colonial Justice Theorizing: On Pariahs and Parvenu?e.s5. Frida Kahlo: On Creating Vibrant, Transnational Jewish Networks6. Gertrude Stein: A Queer Feminist Jew-ing: Constraints and Possibilities for Post-Emancipation Jewish Lives7. Emma Goldman: Anarchist Feminism, a New Frame for Diasporic Longings and Jewish Studies?NotesReferencesIndex