by Barbara Gingold

Fat is Still a Feminist Issue: Susie Orbach in Israel

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THE WOMAN STEPPING UP to the lectern is Dr. Susie Orbach, world-renowned author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue (1978), The Impossibility of Sex (1999), and scores of other publications in between. Orbach needs neither makeup nor high heels to assert her authority. She takes the mike to tell some 400 Israeli women about women, body image, and eating problems.

Fat Talk

The articles in this special section:

Fat is Still a Feminist Issue: Susie Orbach in Israel

by Barbara Gingold

Summer 2001

Teaching girls to love Jewish texts and challenge their misogyny. Lighting candles and married sex. Black and Jewish: Rebecca Walker and Mo Fleming. Is fat still a feminist issue?

Fat Talk

by Mimi Nichter

Portrayed, or Betrayed?

by Charlotte Honigman-Smith

A Hard Row to Hoe

by Mo Fleming

Winter 2018-9

Money and meaning, from teaching Hebrew school to funding abortion. Three miscarriages and a crisis of faith. Candidates who didn’t win. When your family breaks up with you (or vice versa).

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

Spring 2018

#MeToo in Jewish organizations? A girl encounters her sperm-donor half-siblings. The Skokie teenager who crushed on Jesus. What can you toss after a parent dies? Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda.

Fat is Still a Feminist Issue: Susie Orbach in Israel

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