Joyce Antler (born 1942) is an author and Professor Emerita of American Jewish History and Culture, and of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University; she retired from her teaching roles in 2016.
[5] She is one of the founding board members of the Jewish Women's Archive in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was the Chair of its Academic Advisory Council for several years.
[3] Antler's book, The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century (1997), was described in The New York Times as a work which elucidates the struggles of sexism and antisemitism faced by a selection of Jewish women whose activism helped to shape American society and culture.
[13] In the 1970s, Joyce Antler's activism was crucial to the eventual repeal of New York's abortion ban,[14] three years before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal on a federal level (until June 2022 when Roe v. Wade was overturned).
[3] In the years that followed, she co-authored works on maternal health for publications including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.