About Phyllis Chesler, PhD

  Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, a retired psychotherapist and an expert courtroom consultant. She has lectured and organized political, legal, religious, and human rights campaigns in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, Central Asia, and the Far East. Her work has been translated into many European languages, including Portuguese, Polish, and Russian, and into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hebrew, and Arabic. Dr. Chesler is a co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969), The National Women's Health Network (1974-75), and The International Committee for the Original Women of the Wall (1989). She is a Senior Fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism; has served as a Writing Fellow at The Middle East Forum, and as a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP). Dr. Chesler is the author of twenty books, including the landmark feminist classic Women and Madness, which sold more than 3 million copies as well as many other notable books including With Child: A Diary of Motherhood; Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody; Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M;Woman's Inhumanity to Woman; Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site. After publishing The New Anti-Semitism (2003), she published The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle For Women's Freedom (2005) and An American Bride in Kabul (2013), which won a National Jewish Book Award. In 2016, she published Living History: On the Front Lines for Israel and the Jews 2003-2015 and in 2017 she published Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing A Veiled War Against Women. In 2018, she published A Family Conspiracy: Honor Killings, as well as a Memoir: A Politically Incorrect Feminist. In late fall of 2020, she published Requiem for A Female Serial Killer, a genre-blended work of true crime. Since 9/11, Dr. Chesler has focused on the rights of women, dissidents, and gays in the Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim communities; the rights of women in prison; the rise of anti-Semitism, the demonization of Israel, the nature of terrorism, and tribal psychology. Dr. Chesler has published four studies about honor killings. These studies have all appeared in Middle East Quarterly. Based on this academic work, she has submitted affidavits for Muslim and ex-Muslim women who are seeking asylum based on their credible belief that their families will honor kill them.  In 2021-2022, Dr. Chesler co-led a team which rescued four hundred women from Afghanistan. That work continues. She has archived most of her articles at her website: www.phyllis-chesler.com  Dr. Chesler has been profiled in encyclopedias, including Encyclopedia Judaica, Feminists Who Have Changed America, Jewish Women in America, and appears at the Veteran Feminists of America website.  She has published widely over the years in the mainstream media (New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Times of London, London Guardian, Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Jerusalem Post, etc.), as well as at FOX, FrontpageMag, Israel National News, Tablet Magazine, New English Review Press, Jewish Press, Middle East Quarterly, New York Post, PJ Media, Times of Israel, etc. She lives in Manhattan and is a very proud mother and grandmother.