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

• Autore: Frankel Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/8924
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: FrankelJonathan
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jews and gender
• ISBN: 0-19-771405-6; 1-280-53115-0; 0-19-534977-6; 1-4294-0221-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784825703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in contemporary Jewry ; ; 16.