Judith Plaskow

Who is Judith Plaskow?

Dr. Judith Plaskow is Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College. Her scholarly interests focus on contemporary religious thought with a specialization in feminist theology. 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.

She received a B.A. from Clark University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

She came out as a lesbian in the 1980s.

In 1981 she helped found the Jewish feminist group B'not Esh.

Dr. Plaskow has written two books, Sex, Sin and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich and Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, as well as a collection of essays entitled The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics. Her book "Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective" is the first book of Jewish feminist theology ever written.

She has co-edited three books: Women and Religion, Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, and Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality. She has also published numerous articles in edited volumes and journals.