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Rachel Shteir

Rachel Shteir, the author of three books, is working on a biography of Betty Friedan for Yale Jewish Lives.

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May 19, 2021
Rachel Shteir
Tom Stoppard Versus Mike Nichols
Gigantic new biographies by Hermione Lee and Mark Harris reveal the possibilities—and the limits—of a life in art.
November 9, 2017
Rachel Shteir
The Fight Takes Feminism’s Conflicts Seriously
Strife within the feminist movement was used to discredit it. But now a new play is taking a harder look at the Second Wave.
February 29, 2016
Rachel Shteir
Save the Last Dance
A search for meaning in the modern striptease.
November 4, 2012
Rachel Shteir
The Professor: Jill Lepore's Fatal Flaw
August 7, 2012
Rachel Shteir
Get Real
March 12, 2012
Rachel Shteir
The Revolution in Feeling
January 28, 2012
Rachel Shteir
The Ass and the Meaning of Life
December 19, 2011
Rachel Shteir
Frequency Hopping
November 28, 2011
Rachel Shteir
The Good Wife
June 12, 2011
Rachel Shteir
The Uses of Tedium
October 13, 2010
Rachel Shteir
The Call to Service

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