Judith Plaskow

Judith Plaskow is professor of religious studies at Manhattan College and a Jewish feminist theologian. She has been teaching, writing and speaking about feminist studies in religion and Jewish feminism for over thirty years. With Carol P. Christ, she co-edited Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion and Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, anthologies of feminist theology used in many women’s studies and religious studies courses. With Elisabeth Schussler-Fiorenza, she co-founded the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and she co-edited it for its first decade (1985-94). Her book Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective has become a Jewish feminist classic. A collection of her essays, The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics 1972-2003, was recently published by Beacon Press.