Love your religion --
but troubled that women
aren't treated as equals?

Leora Tanenbaum is the author of Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009). It exposes the fact that millions of American Christian, Jewish, and Muslim women love their religion but are deeply troubled over their inferior status within their faith.

Leora's other books are Catfight: Rivalries Among Women—From Diets to Dating, From the Boardroom to the Delivery Room, about the ways in which women often try to sabotage one another, and Slut! Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation, about girls labeled "sluts" by their peers (both HarperPerennial).

Catfight was a selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club in 2003. Slut! is a staple in women's studies courses on college campuses around the United States. Internationally, her books are available in Germany, Turkey, Greece, and Australia/New Zealand.

In addition to books, Tanenbaum has written for Newsday, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Salon, The New York Observer, Ms., The Nation, The Women’s Review of Books, and many other newspapers and magazines. She is currently a blogger for The Huffington Post.

Leora has been featured and profiled in Redbook, The Washington Post, and the Forward, among many other publications. She is quoted regularly in newspapers such as The New York Times, L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today and in magazines ranging from CosmoGirl to Child.

Her writing also appears in the following books: The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism (Greenwood, 2005), The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook, ed. Stuart Maitlins (Jewish Lights, 2001), For Women Only! Your Guide to Health Empowerment, ed. Gary Null and Barbara Seaman (Seven Stories, 2000), and Critical Issues in Contemporary Culture, ed. Christopher Gould and Ele Byington (Allyn and Bacon, 1997). She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Feminist Press.

Leora lectures widely at venues including the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Makor at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, and campuses such as Stanford, Duke, Columbia, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Spelman.

Leora regularly discusses girls' and women's issues on TV news and entertainment shows. She has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, The O'Reilly Factor, Inside Edition, Politically Incorrect, and many other programs. She is also a frequent guest on National Public Radio and VH1. She has been featured in several documentaries and TV specials including Sluts: The Documentary (2006), which was broadcast on the Sundance Channel and the Independent Film Channel.

Leora lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. She enjoys leyning (chanting the words of the Torah in synagogue), listening to the Beatles, and being unspeakably silly with her children.