ISBN:
9780230375819
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42089924
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND -- 1 Setting the Scene -- Jewish immigration into Britain -- The American incoming -- On being an immigrant -- Ashkenazim and Sephardim -- Demography: facts and fears -- II: WOMEN AND JUDAISM -- 2 Women's Role in Judaism -- 'Blessed art thou … Who hast not made me a woman' -- Woman's rightful realm -- Images and stereotypes -- 3 Religious Law -- Women's status -- Prayer -- Religious study -- Divorce -- Agunah, the 'anchored woman' -- Can the law change? -- 4 The Religious Scene -- America -- Britain -- Ritual -- The secular Jew -- What does it mean to me, being a Jewish woman? -- 5 Aspects of Orthodoxy -- The ultra-Orthodox -- The Chassidim -- The ba'alot t'shuva: women who 'return' to strict Orthodoxy -- III: FAMILY LIFE -- 6 The Jewish Woman at Home -- The Jewish family in history -- The daughter's apprenticeship -- Myths -- Food -- Handing on tradition -- 7 Marriage, Childbearing and Sexuality -- The meaning of marriage -- Choosing a partner and the wedding ceremony -- The marital relationship and the Laws of Family Purity -- 'Be fruitful and multiply' -- Sexual morality -- Staying single -- Lesbianism -- 8 Areas of Difficulty -- Intermarriage -- Conversion -- Family breakdown and domestic violence -- Single parent families -- Women as carers -- IV: AREAS OF CHANGE -- 9 Changing Perspectives -- Secular education -- Voluntary work -- Jobs and careers -- 10 Feminism -- Within the family -- Within religion -- Woman's legal status in relation to divorce and agunah -- Feminism and Zionism -- Ambivalence and change -- Bibliography -- Index.
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