Berenice Malka Fisher

Berenice Malka Fisher, professor emerita at New York University, was born in Chicago during the Great Depression. Her educational background includes an MA in Philosophy, a PhD in Education and research informed by sociology and history. With this interdisciplinary background and her commitment from the 1950s on to making a life as "an independent woman," she was well primed to teach and publish in the emerging field of women's studies. In the early 1970s, she encountered the growing feminist...See more

Berenice Malka Fisher, professor emerita at New York University, was born in Chicago during the Great Depression. Her educational background includes an MA in Philosophy, a PhD in Education and research informed by sociology and history. With this interdisciplinary background and her commitment from the 1950s on to making a life as "an independent woman," she was well primed to teach and publish in the emerging field of women's studies. In the early 1970s, she encountered the growing feminist movement, which provided an enduring context for her activism. Her popular and academic feminist writing prepared the ground for her award-winning book, No Angel in the Classroom: Teaching Through Feminist Discourse. In addition to participating in various peace and justice causes, she has demonstrated with the peace group Women in Black-Union Square for about fifteen years and performed with a lesbian theater ensemble, Shock of Grey, for almost twenty. See less