Alice Rothchild Book Talk
Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
73 Tremont Steet, Boston, Poetry Center 3rd Floor (enter through 2nd Floor Sawyer Library)
5:00-5:30 p.m. In-person reception
5:30-7:00 p.m. Book Talk
Inspired and Outraged is the intimate memoir of Alice Rothchild from her adolescence to her mid-40s and the experiences that contributed to her passion and power as a doctor, an activist, and a woman. Compiling stories of her life in verse, Rothchild explores the events of her childhood, her training as an obstetrician-gynecologist, and her discovery of feminism as a guiding force in her life.
About Alice Rothchild
In 2007, Pluto Press published Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience, with a second edition in 2010 and translations into German and Hebrew. In 2013, she released a documentary film, Voices Across the Divide. In 2014, Just World Books published her second book, On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion, and in 2017, Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine. She is currently working on books for children and young adults, including a young adult novel and a young adult memoir in verse. In 2023, Cune Press published her young adult novel, Finding Melody Sullivan. She is finishing a middle-grade novel, a young adult graphic novel, and a memoir in verse and has started her next project, researching the history of the home birth movement in Seattle, WA.
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
