Amy Sheldon

Amy Sheldon, for instance, a feminist Jewish professor at the University of Minnesota, and part of a liberal Jewish community, married a non-Jew.I was not ready, she laments, for the messages I got from my own people ...It is hard to live with the idea that a whole community is capable of automatically turning against me and my family. [Sheldon p.79] This included racist comments about one of her child's blonde hair and the fact that he didn't look Jewish.In an Orthodox context, a Jew who had the misfortune to have red hair in a Haradim community spoke of his difficulty in finding a wife: [Other Jews] thought I looked too much like a goy [non-Jew]. [MacDonald p.214]

Editors: Maureen T. Reddy, Martha Roth, Amy Sheldon
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Amy Sheldon is a professor of linguistics and feminist studies at the University of Minnesota.

Amy Sheldon, a linguist at the University of Minnesota who studies children talking at play in a day care center, compared the conflicts of pre-school girls and boys.She found that boys who fought with one another tended to pursue their own goal.
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This might seem like a typical kids' fight until you compare it with a fight Sheldon videotaped among girls.Here the contested objects were toy medical instruments: Elaine had them; Arlene wanted them.But she didn't just grab for them; she argued her case.Elaine, in turn, balanced her own desire to keep them with Arlene's desire to get them.