Judith Plaskow
Biographic Data
| ID | 845810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Plaskow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Plaskow |
| SIGNATURE | PLASKOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manhattan College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grateful Reflections
The Uses of Anger in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women’s studies began as an outgrowth and direct expression of the feminist movement. It sought to understand the forces that had limited women’s choices and to name the ways in which various academic disciplines had contributed to destructive mythologies about women’s place in society. Anger was a motivating force in feminist studies and activism, a reality captured by Audre Lorde brilliant essay “The Uses of Anger,” which insists on the power o…
Race, Racism, and the JFSR
Myths We Live By
In responding to Joy Ladin's reparative reading of Genesis 1–3, the article argues that what is most salient about the biblical narrative is its inscription of male dominance and linking of male dominance to compulsory heterosexuality. In Genesis 1, the existence of a male/female binary is declared foundational to creation. In Genesis 2, we learn that this binary is not innocent, that however much the woman is like the man, the man, in telling th…
Taking a Break: Toilets, Gender, and Disgust
The brouhaha over Hillary Clinton's bathroom break during the third Democratic debate in December 2015 brings together two interrelated themes: the obstacles surrounding women's access to bathrooms and the broader cultural discomfort with elimination that makes inequities in access difficult to address. This article first describes some of the ways that public toilets perpetuate the subordination of women within a framework in which everyone must…
Beyond Sarah and Hagar: Jewish and Muslim Reflections on Feminist Theology
This letter to you is a long time coming. For a decade now, there has been a fire in my belly ignited by my experiences of marginality as a Muslim woman. But, until now, it has been too difficult to trust non-Muslims with these feelings.
Embodiment, Elimination, and the Role of Toilets in Struggles for Social Justice
Embodiment, Elimination, and the Role of Toilets in Struggles for Social Justice Judith Plaskow ...at the end of the row one free toilet: oozes from under its crooked door,: while a row of weary women carrying packages and babies: wait and wait and wait to do: what only the dead find unnecessary. Marge Piercy, “To the Pay Toilet” Revaluing the body, and especially the female body, has been central to the feminist project. One need only think of t…
The Coming of Lilith: A Response
the orphan frequently disparaged other people's religious practices in vile and nasty ways. Moreover, as Judith also notes, the religious practices the prophets despised celebrated (among other things) Goddesses, female bodies, sexuality, and nature. Feminists who wish to reintroduce images of God-She or Goddess that celebrate the female body, sexuality, and nature will inevitably be accused of reverting to paganism. If feminists really wish to c…
Special Section: FSR Twentieth-Anniversary Celebration a Short History of FSR
A Short History of JFSR
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and I leapt into founding JFSR the way many people leap into having children—without the faintest idea of what was involved! We first met and became friends at the Women Exploring Theology Conference at Grailville, Ohio, in the summer of 1972, and, as our friendship solidified over the next years, we often fantasized about creating a feminist journal in religion. The need for it was clear. Only an occasional feminist …
Roundtable Discussion: Same-Sex Marriage: Response
Mary E. Hunt, Marvin M. Ellison, Emilie M. Townes, Patrick S. Cheng, Martha Ackelsberg, Judith Plaskow, Angela Bauer-Levesque, Roundtable Discussion: Same-Sex Marriage, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Fall, 2004), pp. 83-117
From Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
The author encourages the reader to rethink key Jewish issues and ideas from a feminist perspective. issues are addressed through the central Jewish categories of Torah, Israel and God.
Whose initiative? Whose faith
Journal Article Whose initiative? Whose faith? Get access J Plaskow J Plaskow Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY 10471, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 70, Issue 4, December 2002, Pages 863–868, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaar/70.4.863 Published: 01 December 2002
The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion
Journal Article The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion Get access Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 3, September 1999, Pages 521–538, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/67.3.521 Published: 01 September 1999
Traditions and Transformations
Philosophy
Journal Article PHILOSOPHY Get access Gyn / Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. By Mary DalyBoston: Beacon Press, 1978. xviii+485 pages, notes, indices. $14.95. ISBN 0-8070-1510-5. Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow Manhattan College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 3, September 1979, Page 483, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLVII.3.483 Pu…
On Carol Christ on Margaret Atwood: Some Theological Reflections
Taking a Break: Toilets, Gender, and Disgust
The brouhaha over Hillary Clinton's bathroom break during the third Democratic debate in December 2015 brings together two interrelated themes: the obstacles surrounding women's access to bathrooms and the broader cultural discomfort with elimination that makes inequities in access difficult to address. This article first describes some of the ways that public toilets perpetuate the subordination of women within a framework in which everyone must…
The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion
Journal Article The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion Get access Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 3, September 1999, Pages 521–538, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/67.3.521 Published: 01 September 1999
On Carol Christ on Margaret Atwood: Some Theological Reflections
Philosophy
Journal Article PHILOSOPHY Get access Gyn / Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. By Mary DalyBoston: Beacon Press, 1978. xviii+485 pages, notes, indices. $14.95. ISBN 0-8070-1510-5. Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow Manhattan College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 3, September 1979, Page 483, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLVII.3.483 Pu…
Traditions and Transformations
The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion
Journal Article The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion Get access Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 3, September 1999, Pages 521–538, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/67.3.521 Published: 01 September 1999
Whose initiative? Whose faith
Journal Article Whose initiative? Whose faith? Get access J Plaskow J Plaskow Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY 10471, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 70, Issue 4, December 2002, Pages 863–868, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaar/70.4.863 Published: 01 December 2002
From Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
The author encourages the reader to rethink key Jewish issues and ideas from a feminist perspective. issues are addressed through the central Jewish categories of Torah, Israel and God.
Roundtable Discussion: Same-Sex Marriage: Response
Mary E. Hunt, Marvin M. Ellison, Emilie M. Townes, Patrick S. Cheng, Martha Ackelsberg, Judith Plaskow, Angela Bauer-Levesque, Roundtable Discussion: Same-Sex Marriage, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Fall, 2004), pp. 83-117
Special Section: FSR Twentieth-Anniversary Celebration a Short History of FSR
A Short History of JFSR
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and I leapt into founding JFSR the way many people leap into having children—without the faintest idea of what was involved! We first met and became friends at the Women Exploring Theology Conference at Grailville, Ohio, in the summer of 1972, and, as our friendship solidified over the next years, we often fantasized about creating a feminist journal in religion. The need for it was clear. Only an occasional feminist …
The Coming of Lilith: A Response
the orphan frequently disparaged other people's religious practices in vile and nasty ways. Moreover, as Judith also notes, the religious practices the prophets despised celebrated (among other things) Goddesses, female bodies, sexuality, and nature. Feminists who wish to reintroduce images of God-She or Goddess that celebrate the female body, sexuality, and nature will inevitably be accused of reverting to paganism. If feminists really wish to c…
Embodiment, Elimination, and the Role of Toilets in Struggles for Social Justice
Embodiment, Elimination, and the Role of Toilets in Struggles for Social Justice Judith Plaskow ...at the end of the row one free toilet: oozes from under its crooked door,: while a row of weary women carrying packages and babies: wait and wait and wait to do: what only the dead find unnecessary. Marge Piercy, “To the Pay Toilet” Revaluing the body, and especially the female body, has been central to the feminist project. One need only think of t…
Beyond Sarah and Hagar: Jewish and Muslim Reflections on Feminist Theology
This letter to you is a long time coming. For a decade now, there has been a fire in my belly ignited by my experiences of marginality as a Muslim woman. But, until now, it has been too difficult to trust non-Muslims with these feelings.
Taking a Break: Toilets, Gender, and Disgust
The brouhaha over Hillary Clinton's bathroom break during the third Democratic debate in December 2015 brings together two interrelated themes: the obstacles surrounding women's access to bathrooms and the broader cultural discomfort with elimination that makes inequities in access difficult to address. This article first describes some of the ways that public toilets perpetuate the subordination of women within a framework in which everyone must…
Myths We Live By
In responding to Joy Ladin's reparative reading of Genesis 1–3, the article argues that what is most salient about the biblical narrative is its inscription of male dominance and linking of male dominance to compulsory heterosexuality. In Genesis 1, the existence of a male/female binary is declared foundational to creation. In Genesis 2, we learn that this binary is not innocent, that however much the woman is like the man, the man, in telling th…
Race, Racism, and the JFSR
The Uses of Anger in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women’s studies began as an outgrowth and direct expression of the feminist movement. It sought to understand the forces that had limited women’s choices and to name the ways in which various academic disciplines had contributed to destructive mythologies about women’s place in society. Anger was a motivating force in feminist studies and activism, a reality captured by Audre Lorde brilliant essay “The Uses of Anger,” which insists on the power o…
Grateful Reflections
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works)