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title: Who Is A Radical Feminist?
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Who Is A Radical Feminist?

By Kira Yates • The Lilith Blog • June 19, 2018

> She \[author Joyce Antler\] spoke to some of the highlights of her forthcoming book \["Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices From the Women’s Liberation Movement"\], and discussed the hidden Jewish identities of many radical feminists who defined the future of American feminism. The most surprising of this discussion? That eight of the nine original members of the “Our Bodies, Ourselves” collective were Jewish. Jewish identity was not overt in “Our Bodies, Ourselves” activism, nor was it a discussion piece in most of the women’s liberation movement. Nevertheless, standing against oppression and engaging in the work of liberation itself, Antler argues, likely shaped the values of Jewish women as they performed the cultural work of activism.

  
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