Karen Lehrman Bloch Explained
Karen Lehrman Bloch is an American writer and cultural critic.
Career
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
- Book: 1997 . The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World . Doubleday . [10] [11]
- Book: 2013. The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty . Harper Design . [12]
- Book: 2016. Passage to Israel . Skyhorse . [13]
Notes and References
- News: September–October 1993 . Off Course . Mother Jones .
- News: November–December 1993 . Backtalk . Mother Jones .
- News: Sipchen . Bob . September 30, 1993 . What Hot Debate the Feminist Movement Hath Wrought . Los Angeles Times .
- News: Flint . Anthony . May 29, 1994 . New breed of feminist challenges old guard . The Boston Globe .
- News: Kaminer . Wendy . June 4, 1995 . Feminism's Third Wave: What Do Young Women Want . The New York Times .
- News: Quan Gelernter . Carey . May 13, 1997 . Author Has Her Say On 'Group-Think' Feminism . The Seattle Times .
- News: April 18, 2021 . The Need for Classic Liberal Values . Algemeiner .
- News: May 7, 2021 . In this age of leftist illiberalism, I'm standing up for the truth . The Jewish News of Northern California .
- News: Refael . Tabby . March 31, 2022 . Karen Lehrman Bloch: The Classical Liberal Who’s Had Enough . Jewish Journal .
- News: Miller . Laura . May 11, 1997 . Oppressed by Liberation . The New York Times .
- News: Pollitt . Katha . June 23, 1997 . 'Lipstick Blots' on The Feminist Debate . The Washington Post .
- News: Suqi . Rima . September 25, 2013 . Looking for Beauty, Finding Soul . The New York Times .
- News: Brawarsky . Sandee . November 23, 2016 . Book Briefs . The New York Jewish Week .