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#MeToo: The Shaping of Gender and Jewish Identity

Mon, December 17, 1:15 to 2:45pm, Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center, Harborview 3 Ballroom

Abstract

This paper examines the ways that sexual harassment and assault shape the gender and Jewish identities of American Jewish women. Drawing on the Archiving #MeToo project of the Jewish Women’s Archive as well as the writing and reflections of JWA’s Rising Voices Fellows, I will consider the role of the body, of experiences of harassment and assault, and of communal responses to these experiences in the identity formation and expression of American Jewish women.

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