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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
Barbara Kruger produced Untitled (Your body is a battleground), her most famous work, in support of reproductive freedom at the time of the 1989 Women’s March on Washington, DC.
This ad for an exhibition at California State University Fullerton was intended as a manifesto. The artist Judy Gerowitz announced that she was divesting herself of “all names imposed upon her through…
View of “The Liberation of G-d,” part of an installation titled Trilogy and Epilogue, in which Helène Aylon highlights misogynist passages in the Hebrew Bible and other canonical Jewish religious…
Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home is one of a series of photomontages that Grete Stern produced from 1948 to 1951. They appeared in an Argentinian women’s magazine illustrating a weekly…
Codex Artaud VII is one of a series of thirty-four scrolls that Nancy Spero based on the writings of Antonin Artaud, a writer and theater director famous for conceptualizing the “Theatre of Cruelty.”…
This bronze statue, The Captive, also known as The Slave, is one of the allegorical sculptures for which Maria Dillon is best known. It depicts a woman, whose hands are bound behind her back, bowing…
Napoleon Sarony took this photograph of Alla Nazimova in the English-language performance of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Alla Nazimova (1879–1945) was born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon in Yalta, Crimea, to…
Traditionally performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Tashlich is a rite in which Jews symbolically cast away their sins by throwing breadcrumbs into a body of moving water…
Triple Silver Yentl (My Elvis) is part of what is known as Kass’s Jewish Warhol series, a feminist comment on Andy Warhol’s famous screen prints of celebrities. Kass used the same mass-production…
