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

Summer 2020

Informed predictions for the uncertain future • Farewell to shopping • Growing up Persian • Vivian Gornick & Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz revisited • 1930s feminist fiction — in Yiddish! • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives

Spring 2020

Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

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.

Getting Dressed

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