by Sonia Isard

Getting Dressed

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Fashion is a completely delightful obsession for my cohort of 20-something women. It’s an in-your-face reclamation of the joy of clothes, putting the femme in feminism, so to speak. We do our research online, scrolling through endless pages of red carpets and runways — it’s easy and satisfying to be an armchair expert.

Fashioning Feminism

The articles in this special section:

Getting Dressed

by Sonia Isard

No Thanks For the Liberation

by Rokhl Kafrissen

Standing Out

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

My Coach Bag

by Yona Zeldis Mcdonough

Spring 2011

Dressing feminist—what four smart women think about each morning. Adrienne Cooper on Yiddish songs about family violence. How to throw a green wedding. A Jew-by-choice loves her mezuzah.

Pausing at the Doorpost

by Marian Nash

Women Sing of Family Violence

by Adrienne Cooper with Sarah Mina Gordon

Fashioning Feminism

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox

Fall 2019

#MeToo stories • Jewish women and breast cancer: crisis, intimacy, recovery • Jennifer Weiner on “chick lit’s” power • Suddenly, period positivity • A feminist Jew’s tough search for holiness in community.

Summer 2019

Jewish women and addiction. 1960s & 70s feminism roars back, trendy again. Transforming Jewish life in small-town Maine. Choosing to be Jewish–thus feeling perpetually “the stranger.” Food writing by women that changes the entire culture. She redefines the meaning of Jewish art.

Spring 2019

“Unfaithful,” the theme of 3 prize-winning short stories • Israel’s little-known School for Peace and the woman who created it • The new questions those male policy-makers didn’t know to ask

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