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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817995603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• ISBN: 0-19-771405-6; 1-280-53115-0; 0-19-534977-6; 1-4294-0221-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Collana: Studies in contemporary Jewry ; ; 16.; Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 305.48/8924
• Soggetti: Hebrew literature - History and criticism; Sex role - Religious aspects - Judaism; Yiddish literature - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2001.
• 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.