Participant Info

First Name
Rachel
Last Name
Kranson
Affiliation
University of Pittsburgh
Website URL
https://www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/people/rachel-kranson
Keywords
religion, Jewish Studies, women, gender, reproductive rights, upward mobility
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Recent Publications

Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2017). Honorable Mention, First Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2017

A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in the Postwar Era, edited by Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn and Rachel Kranson (Rutgers University Press, 2010). Finalist, National Book Award in Women’s Studies, 2010

“From Woman’s Right to Religious Concern: The Woman’s League for Conservative Judaism and the Politics of Abortion, 1970-1982,” in Devotions and Desires, edited by Bethany Moreton, Gil Frank, and Heather White, 2018

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Religion, Sexuality, Women