Judith Plaskow
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Judith Plaskow
Judith Plaskow is a Jewish feminist theologian and a professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. In addition to cofounding the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, she has written and edited several significant books in the field, including one of the first feminist dissertations in religious studies, Sex, Sin, and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (University Press of America: 1980). Plaskow also wrote the first full-length Jewish feminist theology, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (Harper & Row: 1990). Plaskow received her MPhil and her PhD from Yale University. An active member of the American Academy of Religion for thirty years, Plaskow served in the 1990s as that organization's president. She was a Bunting fellow at Radcliffe in 1986.
Education
* B.A., Clark University * M.Phil., Yale University * Ph.D., Yale University
Publications
Dr. Plaskow has written two books, Sex, Sin and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (1980) and Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (1990) and co-edited three others: Women and Religion (1973), Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979), and Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (1989). She has also published numerous articles in edited volumes and journals. A collection of her essays entitled The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics will be published in July 2005.
Scholarly Activities
Dr. Plaskow has lectured widely on feminist theology in the United States and Europe. She co-founded The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and co-edited it for its first ten years. She is Past President of the American Academy of Religion.
Research and Scholarly Interests
Contemporary Religious Thought with a specialization in feminist theology. Religious Studies at Manhattan College: Just Sex: Judaism, Sexuality, and American Culture.
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
As a Radcliffe Institute fellow, Plaskow will work on a progressive, constructive sexual ethics and theology written from a Jewish feminist perspective. The book, tentatively titled "Just Sex: Judaism, Sexuality, and American Culture," will place issues of interpersonal ethics in the broader context of the contradictions surrounding sexuality in Jewish tradition and US society. In it, she will explore the relationship between traditional sexual values and larger patterns of religious and social inequality, and between a just and life-enhancing interpersonal ethic and broader social change.
External Links
http://www.manhattan.edu/arts/rls/faculty/plaskow.html http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/show_pastfellows.php?file=plaskow.html
