ABSTRACT
Roughly twenty-five years ago, still in the relatively early stages of the feminist movement’s Second Wave, I gave a talk to a women’s studies audience at Smith College entitled “Personal identities and collective visions: reflections on being a Jew and a feminist.”1 In it, I explored what have since come to be termed issues of diversity within the women’s movement. While some of its language is dated, and the examples on which I drew occurred in what is now the quite-distant past, I resurrect it here because, alas, some of the issues remain all-too-current. In this essay, I intersperse that earlier talk (as delivered) with some contemporary reflections, as a way of exploring with the reader both the changing cultural and political landscape and some implications for anarchist theory and practice.
