Joyce Antler | |
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Born | 1942 Brooklyn, New York
[1] |
Alma mater | Stony Brook University, PhD |
Occupation(s) | Author, professor, social and cultural historian |
Employer | Brandeis University |
Notable work | Jewish Radical Feminism, The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America, and You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother |
Website | https://www.joyceantler.com/ |
Joyce Antler (b. 1942) is an author and Professor Emerita of American Jewish History and Culture, and of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University; she retired from her teaching roles in 2016. [2] [3]
Antler founded Brandeis University's Women's and Gender Studies program, [4] and co-founded MIT's Graduate Consortium of Women Studies. [5] She is one of the founding board members of the Jewish Women's Archive in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was the Chair of its Academic Advisory Council for several years. [3]
Antler's book, The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century (1997), was described in The New York Times as a work which elucidates the struggles of sexism and antisemitism faced by a selection of Jewish women whose activism helped to shape American society and culture. [6] Her next notable book, You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother (2007), takes on stereotypes of Jewish mothers. [7] Her 2018 book, Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement, addresses the high rate of participation of Jewish women in the US women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s; [8] it was also a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers. [9]
Apart from her academic prose, Antler has also written plays, including "Year One of the Empire," which was originally written and performed in 1973. [10] The play, written alongside Elinor Fuchs, returned to the stage in 2008. [11]
In the Fall of 2020, Antler delivered the Steinbaum Memorial Lecture at Boston's Temple Israel (Boston). [12] In October 2023, Antler took part in a panel discussion alongside Anita Hill titled "Brandeis Women Who Changed the World"; both women have been professors in their respective fields at the institution for years. [13]
In the 1970s, Joyce Antler's activism was crucial to the eventual repeal of New York's abortion ban, [14] three years before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal on a federal level (until June 2022 when Roe v. Wade was overturned). [15] [16] The change Antler helped with made New York the first state to allow abortions on demand. [3] In the years that followed, she co-authored works on maternal health for publications including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. [17] [18]
Joyce Antler | |
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Born | 1942 Brooklyn, New York
[1] |
Alma mater | Stony Brook University, PhD |
Occupation(s) | Author, professor, social and cultural historian |
Employer | Brandeis University |
Notable work | Jewish Radical Feminism, The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America, and You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother |
Website | https://www.joyceantler.com/ |
Joyce Antler (b. 1942) is an author and Professor Emerita of American Jewish History and Culture, and of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University; she retired from her teaching roles in 2016. [2] [3]
Antler founded Brandeis University's Women's and Gender Studies program, [4] and co-founded MIT's Graduate Consortium of Women Studies. [5] She is one of the founding board members of the Jewish Women's Archive in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was the Chair of its Academic Advisory Council for several years. [3]
Antler's book, The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century (1997), was described in The New York Times as a work which elucidates the struggles of sexism and antisemitism faced by a selection of Jewish women whose activism helped to shape American society and culture. [6] Her next notable book, You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother (2007), takes on stereotypes of Jewish mothers. [7] Her 2018 book, Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement, addresses the high rate of participation of Jewish women in the US women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s; [8] it was also a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers. [9]
Apart from her academic prose, Antler has also written plays, including "Year One of the Empire," which was originally written and performed in 1973. [10] The play, written alongside Elinor Fuchs, returned to the stage in 2008. [11]
In the Fall of 2020, Antler delivered the Steinbaum Memorial Lecture at Boston's Temple Israel (Boston). [12] In October 2023, Antler took part in a panel discussion alongside Anita Hill titled "Brandeis Women Who Changed the World"; both women have been professors in their respective fields at the institution for years. [13]
In the 1970s, Joyce Antler's activism was crucial to the eventual repeal of New York's abortion ban, [14] three years before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal on a federal level (until June 2022 when Roe v. Wade was overturned). [15] [16] The change Antler helped with made New York the first state to allow abortions on demand. [3] In the years that followed, she co-authored works on maternal health for publications including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. [17] [18]