Karen Lehrman Bloch

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

• The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World. Doubleday. 1997.^[10][11]
• The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty. Harper Design. 2013.^[12]
• Passage to Israel. Skyhorse. 2016.^[13]

References

1. "Off Course". Mother Jones. September–October 1993.
2. "Backtalk". Mother Jones. November–December 1993.
3. Sipchen, Bob (September 30, 1993). "What Hot Debate the Feminist Movement Hath Wrought". Los Angeles Times.
4. Flint, Anthony (May 29, 1994). "New breed of feminist challenges old guard". The Boston Globe.
5. Kaminer, Wendy (June 4, 1995). "Feminism's Third Wave: What Do Young Women Want". The New York Times.
6. Quan Gelernter, Carey (May 13, 1997). "Author Has Her Say On 'Group-Think' Feminism". The Seattle Times.
7. "The Need for Classic Liberal Values". Algemeiner. April 18, 2021.
8. "In this age of leftist illiberalism, I'm standing up for the truth". The Jewish News of Northern California. May 7, 2021.
9. Refael, Tabby (March 31, 2022). "Karen Lehrman Bloch: The Classical Liberal Who's Had Enough". Jewish Journal.
10. Miller, Laura (May 11, 1997). "Oppressed by Liberation". The New York Times.
11. Pollitt, Katha (June 23, 1997). "'Lipstick Blots' on The Feminist Debate". The Washington Post.
12. Suqi, Rima (September 25, 2013). "Looking for Beauty, Finding Soul". The New York Times.
13. Brawarsky, Sandee (November 23, 2016). "Book Briefs". The New York Jewish Week.

External links

• Official website