Karen Lehrman Bloch is an American writer and cultural critic.

Career

Lehrman Bloch's criticism of

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

programs in a September/October 1993 cover story for ''

Mother Jones Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She h ...

'' "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 Susan Charlotte Faludi (; born April 18, 1959) is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitze ...

. In 1994, Lehrman Bloch told ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

'', "Feminism has become orthodoxy. There's a great stigma about speaking out, like you're breaking the sisterhood. So no one does." Writing for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' in 1995,

Wendy Kaminer Wendy Kaminer (born December 28, 1949) is an American lawyer and writer. She has written several books on contemporary social issues, including ''A Fearful Freedom: Women's Flight From Equality'', about the conflict between egalitarian and protect ...

called Lehrman Bloch "perhaps the sharpest of the young individualist critics" of

third-wave feminism Third-wave feminism is an iteration of the feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave. Grounded in the civil-rights advances of the second wave, Gen X and early Gen Y generations third-wav ...

. In her 1997 book ''The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World'', Lehrman Bloch protested "group-think" feminism. In 2021, Lehrman Bloch launched ''White Rose Magazine'', where she serves as editor-in-chief. The magazine, named after the

White Rose The White Rose (german: Weiße Rose, ) was a Nonviolence, non-violent, intellectual German resistance to Nazism, resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students (and one professor) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, ...

resistance group in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

, is dedicated to classical liberalism and opposing extremism. In an interview for the ''

Jewish Journal ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', known simply as the ''Jewish Journal'', is an independent, nonprofit community weekly newspaper serving the Jewish community of greater Los Angeles, published by TRIBE Media Corp. ''The Journal'' wa ...

'' 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.

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