ISBN:
0195140818
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9780195140811
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 397 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Studies in contemporary Jewry 16
Serie:
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Ser v.Vol. XVI
Paralleltitel:
Print version Jews and Gender : The Challenge to Hierarchy
DDC:
305.48/8924
Schlagwort(e):
Women in Judaism
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Women in rabbinical literature
;
Jewish women Social conditions 20th century
;
Jews Identity
;
Feminism Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Gender identity
;
Jews Book reviews Social conditions 20th century
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Feminism ; Religious aspects ; Judaism
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Gender identity
;
Jewish women ; Social conditions ; 20th century
;
Jews ; Identity
;
Jews ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; Book reviews
;
Women in Judaism
;
Women in rabbinical literature
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
The 16th volume in the studies in contemporary Jewry series features a symposium on the theme of Jews and gender. The articles show how a varied and controversial feminist approach can be applied to the field of Jewish studies
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Symposium: Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy; Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism; Two Models of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian Empires; A Political Tradition? American Jewish Women and the Politics of History; The Jewish Response to the Third Reich: Gender at the Grassroots; Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah; The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature; The Midrashic Enterprise of Contemporary Jewish Women
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Imagining "Masculinity" in the Jewish Fin de SiècleThe Modernist Erotics of Jewish Tradition: A View from the Gallery; Body-building, Character-building, and Nation-building: Gender and Military Service in Israel; Replaying the Rape of Dinah: Women's Bodies in Israeli Cultural Discourse; Jewish Women in Transition: A Comparative Sociodemographic Perspective; Essays; Bearing Witness to the "Differend": Jean-François Lyotard, the Postmodern Intellectual, and "the jews"; As Families Remember: Holocaust Memoirs and Their Transmission; Review Essays; Postmodernism and the Jewish Question
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Beyond Heroism and Victimhood: Gender and Holocaust ScholarshipPeople of the Image; On the Brink of Peace? More Israeli Memoirs; Book Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature and the Arts; Religion, Thought and Education; Zionism, Israel and the Middle East; Letter to the Editor; Response; Contents for Volume XVII; Note on Editorial Policy
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
