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In Erica Jong’s 1997 novel, Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters, Sandrine slaps her daughter Sara’s face upon learning of her first period. When Sara asks her why, her mother is stymied. “Damned if I can remember,” Sandrine said. “I had to do it. My mother did it to me.” Sandrine isn’t alone […]

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On November 15, 1937, a cartoon strip gave birth to an American holiday. Named Sadie Hawkins Day after “the homeliest gal in all them hills,” the fictional holiday created by famously acerbic Jewish humorist Al Capp almost instantaneously sprang off the page into a proto-feminist tradition in high schools across the country. Poor imaginary Ms. […]

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There is a lot we can write here about the Barbie doll and the havoc she’s wrought on our principles and collective self-image but one thing less discussed is her Jewish creator, Ruth Mosko Handler, who was not content to rest on the laurels of her archetype bombshell. Handler was a businesswoman who started the […]

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