Judith Plaskow is professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. She is the author of Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective and The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Judaism, Feminism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972–2003, and co-editor with Carol P. Christ of Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion and Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality. A former president of the American Academy of Religion, she co-founded the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion with Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and co-edited it for its first ten years.