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Article: Jewish editor battles `JAP baiting,' misogyny
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 8, 1989
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Susan Weidman Schneider is a small woman with dark hair and a
thoughtful manner. She has a husband and three children at home in
New York's suburbs. Her voice is pleasant, and so soft you tend to
listen carefully for fear of missing what she is saying.
But don't let that gentle air fool you. She is an eloquent
feminist. She is an author and editor-in-chief of the Jewish
feminist quarterly Lilith. And she has been waging an ardent if
scrupulously polite campaign against misogyny for years.
Currently a prime focus of her attention is "JAP baiting," a
practice that ballooned out of the Jewish American Princess concept
of a few years ago.
While the original idea was to mock the spoiled ...