Feminist Foremothers in Women s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and 70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy, feminist psychology, and women s mental health as they exist today. The 48 women share their life stories in the hope that they will inspire and encourage readers to take their own risks and their own journeys to the outer edges of human possibility.

Authors write about what led up to their...

Contains some 50 contributions by and about women who led what is sometimes called the second wave of the feminist movement which took place roughly during the 1960s and 1970s. Contributors describe what led up to their achievements, what they accomplished, and how their lives were changed by their work. Contributors include Judy Chicago, Starhaw

Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband's family and had no rights of citizenship. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, westernized foreign college student with dreams of reforming his country, reverted to...

An Inspiration to All Who Struggle for Religious and Gender Equality

"Our souls yearn to pray, in peace, in the sacred place, to read from our holy Torah, together with other Jewish women."
--from the

In Israel today, the historic Western Wall, known as the Kotel, a holy site for Jewish people, is under the religious authority of the Orthodox rabbinate. Women have only limited rights to practice Jewish ritual in its precincts.

This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, the United...