Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality

Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality

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This discussion is part of a conference sponsored by the Center for Gender in Global Context entitled “Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future.”

Moderator: Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University, Department of History and Associate Director of the Serling Institute.

Discussant: Melissa R. Klapper, Rowan University, Department of History.

“An Anti-Suffrage Club”: Jewish Women and Domestic Feminism in Progressive-Era San Francisco.
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College, Department of English.

“The Information is Only to Mothers”: Gender, Class, Yiddish, and Reproductive Politics at the 46 Amboy St. Clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn
Cassandra Euphrat Weston, University of Michigan, Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

Able to Enter: Gender and Disability in Cecilia Razovsky’s Immigration Advocacy
Hannah Greene, New York University, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

 

 

Co-sponsors: Center for Gender in Global Context, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison College, The RCAH, Department of History, College of Social Science and Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives.