1st Edition
#UsToo How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities
Introduction; 1 #GamAni: Jewish Women Find Their Voices; 2 #MosqueToo: Muslim Women Moving Mountains; 3 In Christ, We Pray, Amen; Conclusion
Biography
Keren R. McGinity is the first interfaith specialist at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. She is also a research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and teaches American Studies at Brandeis University. Her pioneering books, Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America (NYU Press 2009), a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, and Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood (Indiana University Press 2014), provided groundbreaking analyses about Jewish continuity by focusing on gender and change over time
"#UsToo is a much-needed work of religious alliance politics, which chronicles McGinity's journey to becoming a scholar-activist. In these pages, we learn about Mona Eltahawy, who was responsible for the hashtag #MosqueMeToo and a Twitter thread that revealed the enormity of the problem of Muslim women being violated in sacred spaces, as well as the organization In Shayk’s Clothing that released a Code of Conduct for Islamic Leadership. And we are introduced to Sophia Nelson, who coined the “#UsToo” hashtag of McGinity’s title to ensure that Black women’s experiences were represented in the #MeToo movement. Kudos to this “persister” who forges interfaith feminist connections."
- Helen Meyers, 'Seven Powerful Jewish Feminist Moments of 2023', Lilith Magazine
