Alice Rothchild

Author and Physician

Alice developed an interest in progressive politics in the 1960s and 70s starting with campus opposition to the Vietnam War and moving on to her discovery of feminism and health reform movements while in medical school and residency. She contributed to the first edition of Our Bodies, Our Selves, joined women’s consciousness raising activities, and worked for health care reform on the grassroots level. Political analysis thus increasingly informed her understanding of the world. She also became active in a number of social justice organizations and began speaking and writing on topics ranging from childbirth to menopause to caring for underserved populations.

Alice writes and lectures widely, blogs regularly, has written numerous articles and contributed to a number of anthologies including: including Coping with a Miscarriage; The Women’s Encyclopedia of Health and Natural Healing; Routledge International Women’s Encyclopedia; Women & Health, Power Technology, Inequalities and Conflict in a Gendered World; Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation; Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine; We are Not Numbers – Junge Stimmen aus Gaza, (published in German); and Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation.

Her published poetry has appeared in journals including Ariel Chart and Writers Resist.

Robert Shetterly painted her portrait as part of his Americans Who Tell the Truth project.