She won a full scholarship to Bard College, where she met Ali, a Westernized Muslim man from Afghanistan, the son of devout Muslim parents. She attended New Utrecht High School where she was the editor of the yearbook and of the literary magazine. Despite her parents' disapproval, she continued to rebel against her religious upbringing. As a youth she joined the Socialist-Zionist, anti-religious youth movement, HaShomer Hatzair, and later the even more radical left-wing Zionist youth movement, Ein Harod. 3.10 Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody (2011)Ĭhesler was the eldest of three children raised in a working class Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.3.5 Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M (1988).3.4 With Child: A Diary of Motherhood (1979).3.2 Women, Money and Power (co-authored with Emily Jane Goodman) (1976).2.4 Activist against racism and antisemitism.Chesler argues that many western intellectuals, including leftists and feminists, have abandoned Western values in the name of multicultural relativism, and that this has led to an alliance with Islamists, an increase in antisemitism, and to the abandonment of Muslim women and religious minorities in Muslim-majority countries. In more recent years, Chesler has written several works on such subjects as antisemitism, Islam, and honour killings. Chesler has written on topics such as gender, mental illness, divorce and child custody, surrogacy, second-wave feminism, pornography, prostitution, incest, violence against women. She is known as a feminist psychologist, and is the author of 14 books, including the best-seller Women and Madness (1972). Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island ( CUNY).
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