Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1945–2018)
Auteur de The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology
A propos de l'auteur
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was born Melanie Kaye in Brooklyn, New York on September 9, 1945. She received a bachelor's degree from City College of New York and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She went on to teach the university's first women's studies afficher plus class. She also taught urban studies, race theory, public policy, Jewish studies, and gender and queer studies at Hamilton College, Goddard College, and Norwich University. She wrote several books including My Jewish Face and Other Stories; The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence, and Resistance; and The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. She and Irena Klepfisz edited The Tribe of Dina, an anthology of Jewish women's writings. She edited and published the lesbian literary and art journal Sinister Wisdom in the 1980s and was the first director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in the early 1990s. She died of Parkinson's disease on July 10, 2018 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (1986) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 159 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 32: Death, Healing, Mourning, and Illness (1987) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 26: To Go To Berbir - A Journey and a War (1984) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
Amazons 1 exemplaire
Kaye, Melanie Archive 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (1996) — Contributeur — 108 exemplaires
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 43/44: The 15th Anniversary Retrospective (1991) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities (1988) — Directeur de publication — 13 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 34: Special Issue on Lesbian Visions, Fantasy, Sci-Fi (1988) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 37: With an Emphasis on Lesbian Theory (1989) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 38: With an Emphasis on Lesbian Relationships (1989) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1945-09-09
- Date de décès
- 2018-07-09
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- City College of New York
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|Comparative Literature) - Professions
- poet
essayist
activist
Membres
Critiques
The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence… par Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
An extraordinarily powerful work in two domains: feminism, and Jewish studies (though to a large extent these are dealt with separately, as the book is primarily a series of essays). Kaye/Kantrowitz is part of a robust tradition of Jewish lesbian feminists who were active in the 1980s and 1990s, and on antisemitism in particular her account of how prevailing paradigms of oppression to not adequately encompass the Jewish case -- failing to reckon with how *power* (perceived and actual) intersects with antisemitic domination -- remains unrivaled decades later. But her discussion of violence in women's spaces -- both in negative cases (i.e., domestic violence among lesbian couples) and positive cases (the use of violence against abusive men) also remains bracing. An underrated classic.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 27
- Membres
- 345
- Popularité
- #69,185
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 12