The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance

by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Paperback, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

HQ1172 .K39 1992

Tags

lesbian

Genres

Collections

Your library, University of Pittsburgh

Publication

Aunt Lute Books (1995), Edition: 1st, Paperback, 320 pages

Description

"The issue is power in this collection of essays, speeches, and reviews spanning 15 years of writing and organizing. Political activist and writer Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz brings an insightful eye and a sharp analytical mind to address a wide range of issues in contemporary America: race, class, anti-Semitism, lesbian culture, war, sexual power, identity politics, Israel, Palestine and the Middle East, international and domestic violence against and by women. Kaye/Kantrowitz is indomitable in the fight against being worn down, hushed up. Her work reminds us of the strength in community."--Jacket.

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LibraryThing member schraubd
An extraordinarily powerful work in two domains: feminism, and Jewish studies (though to a large extent these are dealt with separately, as the book is primarily a series of essays). Kaye/Kantrowitz is part of a robust tradition of Jewish lesbian feminists who were active in the 1980s and 1990s,
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 and on antisemitism in particular her account of how prevailing paradigms of oppression to not adequately encompass the Jewish case -- failing to reckon with how *power* (perceived and actual) intersects with antisemitic domination -- remains unrivaled decades later. But her discussion of violence in women's spaces -- both in negative cases (i.e., domestic violence among lesbian couples) and positive cases (the use of violence against abusive men) also remains bracing. An underrated classic.
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Subjects

Language

English

Physical description

320 p.; 8.97 inches

ISBN

1879960168 / 9781879960169

Local notes

OCLC = 217

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