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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784825703321

Autore

Frankel Jonathan

Titolo

Jews and gender [[electronic resource] ] : the challenge to hierarchy / / Jonathan Frankel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-19-771405-6

1-280-53115-0

0-19-534977-6

1-4294-0221-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Collana

Studies in contemporary Jewry, , 0740-8625 ; ; 16

Altri autori (Persone)

FrankelJonathan

Disciplina

305.48/8924

Soggetti

Feminism - Religious aspects - Judaism

Gender identity

Jewish women - Social conditions - 20th century

Jews - Identity

Jews - Social conditions - 20th century

Women in Judaism

Women in rabbinical literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.