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Karen Lehrman Bloch is an American writer and cultural critic.

Career

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Lehrman Bloch's criticism of women's studies programs in a September/October 1993 cover story for Mother Jones "ignited heated exchanges in the women's studies community, the press, and on radio talk shows around the country." In the subsequent November/December issue, Mother Jones published 14 responses to Lehrman Bloch's piece, most prominently feminist writer Susan Faludi.[1][2][3] In 1994, Lehrman Bloch told The Boston Globe, "Feminism has become orthodoxy. There's a great stigma about speaking out, like you're breaking the sisterhood. So no one does."[4] Writing for The New York Times in 1995, Wendy Kaminer called Lehrman Bloch "perhaps the sharpest of the young individualist critics" of third-wave feminism.[5] In her 1997 book The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World, Lehrman Bloch protested "group-think" feminism.[6]

In 2021, Lehrman Bloch launched White Rose Magazine, where she serves as editor-in-chief. The magazine, named after the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, is dedicated to classical liberalism and opposing extremism.[7][8] In an interview for the Jewish Journal in 2022, Lehrman Bloch explained why she believes classical liberalism is being subverted and how White Rose provides a path back to classical liberal principles, like heterodoxy and ethics.[9]

Bibliography

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  • The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World. Doubleday. 1997.[10][11]
  • The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty. Harper Design. 2013.[12]
  • Passage to Israel. Skyhorse. 2016.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Off Course". Mother Jones. September–October 1993.
  2. ^ "Backtalk". Mother Jones. November–December 1993.
  3. ^ Sipchen, Bob (September 30, 1993). "What Hot Debate the Feminist Movement Hath Wrought". Los Angeles Times.
  4. ^ Flint, Anthony (May 29, 1994). "New breed of feminist challenges old guard". The Boston Globe.
  5. ^ Kaminer, Wendy (June 4, 1995). "Feminism's Third Wave: What Do Young Women Want". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Quan Gelernter, Carey (May 13, 1997). "Author Has Her Say On 'Group-Think' Feminism". The Seattle Times.
  7. ^ "The Need for Classic Liberal Values". Algemeiner. April 18, 2021.
  8. ^ "In this age of leftist illiberalism, I'm standing up for the truth". The Jewish News of Northern California. May 7, 2021.
  9. ^ Refael, Tabby (March 31, 2022). "Karen Lehrman Bloch: The Classical Liberal Who's Had Enough". Jewish Journal.
  10. ^ Miller, Laura (May 11, 1997). "Oppressed by Liberation". The New York Times.
  11. ^ Pollitt, Katha (June 23, 1997). "'Lipstick Blots' on The Feminist Debate". The Washington Post.
  12. ^ Suqi, Rima (September 25, 2013). "Looking for Beauty, Finding Soul". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Brawarsky, Sandee (November 23, 2016). "Book Briefs". The New York Jewish Week.
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