List of Jewish feminists

This is an alphabetical list of Jewish feminists.

## Jewish feminists

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* Bella Abzug (1920–1998)[1]
* Kathy Acker
* Arlene Agus (1949–2024)
* Chantal Akerman (1950–2015)
* Gloria Allred (Born 1941)
* Eleanor Antin
* Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942)
* Oreet Ashery
* Adina Bar-Shalom[2]
* Pauline Bebe
* Evelyn Torton Beck
* Hanne Blank
* Lisa Bloom
* Judy Blume
* Elizabeth Bolton
* Susan Bordo
* Daniel Boyarin
* Susan Brownmiller (1935–2025)
* Judith Butler
* Claude Cahun (1894–1954)
* Aviva Cantor
* Nina Beth Cardin
* Naomi Chazan
* Phyllis Chesler
* Judy Chicago
* Hélène Cixous
* Hedwig Dohm (1831–1919)
* Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005)
* Amy Eilberg
* Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
* Eve Ensler
* Jane Evans (1907-2004)
* Susan Faludi
* Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014)
* Rachel Kohl Finegold
* Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012)
* Marcia Freedman (1938-2021)
* Betty Friedan (1921–2006)
* Debbie Friedman (1951-2011)
* Zehava Gal-On
* Sarah Michelle Gellar
* Tavi Gevinson
* Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020)
* Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
* Elyse Goldstein
* Lynn Gottlieb
* Blu Greenberg
* Daphna Hacker
* Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
* Jack Halberstam
* Charlotte Haldane (1894-1969)
* Nina Hartley
* Tova Hartman
* Judith Hauptman
* Dorothy Ray Healey
* Diana Mara Henry
* Judith Lewis Herman
* Susannah Heschel
* Eva Hesse
* Anat Hoffman
* Brenda Howard
* Sara Hurwitz
* Paula Hyman
* Beba Idelson
* Tal Ilan
* Elfriede Jelinek
* Erica Jong
* Aletta Jacobs
* Elena Kagan
* Roberta Kalechofsky
* Belda Kaufman Lindenbaum
* Michael Kimmel
* Melanie Klein
* Naomi Klein
* Gilah Kletenik
* Edith Konecky
* Anna Kuliscioff
* Michele Landsberg
* Paulina Lebl-Albala
* Lori Hope Lefkovitz
* Gerda Lerner
* Aurora Levins Morales
* Amy-Jill Levine
* Ariel Levy
* Fanny Lewald
* Rosa Luxemburg
* Frederica Sagor Maas
* Ruchama Marton
* Henriette May
* Hana Meisel
* Annie Nathan Meyer
* Selma Meyer
* Merav Michaeli
* Robin Morgan
* Cheryl Moch
* Haviva Ner-David
* Martha Nussbaum
* Margit Oelsner-Baumatz
* Rose Pastor Stokes
* Laurie Penny
* Judith Plaskow
* Letty Cottin Pogrebin
* Bertha Pappenheim[3]
* Rachel Pollack
* Griselda Pollock
* Katha Pollitt
* Virginia Postrel
* Sally Priesand
* Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner
* Yvonne Rainer
* Ruth Rasnic
* Avital Ronell
* Rachel Rosenthal
* Tamar Ross
* Muriel Rukeyser
* Danya Ruttenberg
* Nina Salaman
* Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
* Miriam Schapiro
* Rosika Schwimmer
* Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
* Alice Shalvi
* Mendel Shapiro
* Ella Shohat
* Sheila Shulman
* Kaja Silverman
* Joan Snyder
* Susan Sontag
* Daniel Sperber
* Annie Sprinkle
* Gertrude Stein
* Gloria Steinem (Born 1934)
* Sandra Steingraber
* Estelle Sternberger (1886–1971)
* Elana Maryles Sztokman
* Meredith Tax
* Mierle Laderman Ukeles
* Yona Wallach
* Rebecca Walker
* Wendy Wasserstein
* Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
* Naomi Weisstein
* Hannah Wilke
* Naomi Wolf
* Diana Yoel
* Tamar Zandberg

## See also

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* Jewish feminism
* Judaism and women
* Jewish left
* List of feminists
* Jewish mother stereotype
* Jewish-American princess
* Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
* Lilith (magazine)
* National Council of Jewish Women
* Partnership minyan
* Role of women in Judaism
* Shira Hadasha

## References

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1. ^ Barbara J. Love (2006). Feminists who changed America, 1963–1975. University of Illinois Press. p. 3\. ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
2. ^ Bar-Shalom, Adina (6 March 2014). "Haredi feminism is already here". Yedioth Ahronoth. Posted to AJewishFeminist blog in English translation by Elana Maryles Sztokman
3. ^ "Bertha Pappenheim".

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