Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1945–2018)
Forfatter af The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology
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Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was born Melanie Kaye in Brooklyn, New York on September 9, 1945. She received a bachelor's degree from City College of New York and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She went on to teach the university's first women's studies vis mere class. She also taught urban studies, race theory, public policy, Jewish studies, and gender and queer studies at Hamilton College, Goddard College, and Norwich University. She wrote several books including My Jewish Face and Other Stories; The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence, and Resistance; and The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. She and Irena Klepfisz edited The Tribe of Dina, an anthology of Jewish women's writings. She edited and published the lesbian literary and art journal Sinister Wisdom in the 1980s and was the first director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in the early 1990s. She died of Parkinson's disease on July 10, 2018 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Sinister Wisdom 32: Death, Healing, Mourning, and Illness (1987) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Amazons 1 eksemplar
Kaye, Melanie Archive 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Bidragyder — 71 eksemplarer
Sinister Wisdom 43/44: The 15th Anniversary Retrospective (1991) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities (1988) — Redaktør — 13 eksemplarer
Sinister Wisdom 34: Special Issue on Lesbian Visions, Fantasy, Sci-Fi (1988) — Redaktør — 9 eksemplarer
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- 1945-09-09
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- 2018-07-09
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- female
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- USA
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- City College of New York
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|Comparative Literature) - Erhverv
- poet
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activist
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