Most significant, from my standpoint as a young and out lesbian activist, was the publication of Evelyn Torton Beck's Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology. From memoir to academic scholarship, from feminist critique of religion to Orthodox women's own struggles with feminism, the 1980s saw a tidal wave of investigation into Jewish women's communities and a diverse chorus of Jewish women's voices. WHEN I ENTERED GRADUATE SCHOOL in 1983, I was privileged to join a crucial decade for Jewish women's studies. Although much prominent queer theory is written by women, it is most often not written about lesbians. It is worth noting that the activist group the Lesbian Avengers organized at least in part as a response to the male bias of and the invisibility of lesbians within Queer Nation. A raft of lesbian and feminist critics have called the term queer a false generic that erases the existence of lesbians and the insights of feminism.
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