About Phyllis

She is the author of 20 published books, has introduced or contributed to more than 50 anthologies, and has penned thousands of articles. Her books include the landmark feminist classics Women and Madness (1972), which sold three-and-a-half-million copies and remains in print; Women, Money & Power (1976); About Men (1978); With Child: A Diary of Motherhood (1979); Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody (1986), for which she published a complete updated edition of in 2011; Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M (1988); Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness (1994); Letters to a Young Feminist (1998); Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman (2002), for which she's been interviewed on every continent; Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site (2002); The New Antisemitism (2003, 2014); The Death of Feminism (2005); An American Bride in Kabul (2013), which won a National Jewish Book Award; Living History: On the Front Lines for Israel and the Jews (2015); Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women (2017); A Family Conspiracy: Honor Killing (2018); A Politically Incorrect Feminist (2018); and Requiem for a Female Serial Killer (2020), which has attracted four different film companies to date.

Dr. Chesler’s work has been translated into many European languages, including French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, and Russian, and into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hebrew, Farsi, and Arabic.

She has completed a book titled: The Complete Palestinianization of American Feminism: A Lived History as well as a family memoir:Talking to the Dead: Growing up with Violent and Criminal Brothers and with the Mother Who Enabled Them.

Chesler shares her published work on her website, which functions as a digital archive and has an impressive online presence, drawing about 50,000 unique visitors every year.

She also writes for her Substack newsletter, which has nearly 5,000 followers and a monthly readership of more than 40,000. Her posts are routinely picked up by other publications.

At Dignity, an online academic journal, Chesler’s work has been downloaded 45,000 times by users from around the world. Chesler’s work has also been cited over 7,000 times on ACADEMIA.EDU and Google Scholar, where it has been accessed by academics from 97 different countries.

Across her social media accounts (X.com, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.), Chesler has amassed 26,000 dedicated followers and subscribers.

Since 9/11, Dr. Chesler has focused on the demonization of Israel, the West, and rising antisemitism/anti-Zionism; the rights of women, dissidents, and gays in the Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim communities; the rights of women in prison; the nature of terrorism; forced veiling, forced marriage, polygamy, femicide (honor killing), and tribal psychology. She once appeared regularly on NPR's "At the Opera" program and has published opera, film, and book reviews.

Dr. Chesler is a founding member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and the Clarity Coalition. She was a Senior Fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a member of The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism. She has been profiled in encyclopedias such as Feminists Who Have Changed America, Encyclopedia Judaica, Jewish Women in America, and at the Veteran Feminists of America’s website.

She is also the proud mother of a wonderful son, the mother-in-law to a daughter-in-law, (the best mother in the world), and the grandmother of two delicious teenage granddaughters.

• My Feminist Autobiography
• Academic CV (Forensic, General)
• Curriculum Vitae (Judaism/Jewish World)
• Feminists Who Changed America
• The Elizabeth Cady Stanton of Her Time
• Entry on Phyllis Chesler in Encyclopedia Judaica
• Entry on Phyllis Chesler in Jewish Women in America
• Phyllis Chesler's Facebook Page
• Jewish Women’s Archive