Research Catalog

Title

Jews and gender : the challenge to hierarchy / edited by Jonathan Frankel.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Frankel, Jonathan.

Description

xiii, 397 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

This collection of articles is devoted to the theme of Jews and gender, including topics such as feminism in Judaism, Jewish women in history, gender and military service in Israel, and sociodemographic studies of Jewish women.

Series Statement

Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 16

Uniform Title

Studies in contemporary Jewry 16.

Subject

• Feminism > Judaism
• Gender identity
• Jewish women > Social conditions > 20th century
• Jews > Identity
• Jews > Social conditions > 20th century > Book reviews
• Women in Judaism
• Women in rabbinical literature

Genre/Form

Book reviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Modern orthodoxy and the challenge of feminism / Tamar Ross -- Two models of modernization : Jewish women in the German and the Russian empires / Paula E. Hyman -- A political tradition? American Jewish women and the politics of history / Hasia R. Diner -- The Jewish response to the Third Reich : gender at the grassroots / Marion Kaplan -- Women's bodies and the rise of the rabbis : the case of sotah / Daniel Boyarin -- The impact of feminism on rabbinic studies : the impossible paradox of reading women into rabbinic literature / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- The midrashic enterprise of contemporary Jewish women / Jody Myers -- Imagining "masculinity" in the Jewish fin de si©·cle / Hillel J. Kieval -- The modernist erotics of Jewish tradition : a view from the gallery / Naomi Seidman -- Body-building, character-building, and nation-building : gender and military service in Israel / Eyal Ben-Ari, Edna Levy-Schreiber -- Replaying the rape of Dinah : women's bodies in Israeli cultural discourse / Susan Sered -- Jewish women in transition : a comparative sociodemographic perspective / Sergio DellaPergola -- Bearing witness to the "differend" : Jean-Fran©ʹois Lyotard, the postmodern intellectual, and "the jews" / Jonathan Judaken -- As families remember : Holocaust memoirs and their transmission / Elisheva Baumgarten -- Review essays -- Book reviews.

ISBN

0195140818

LCCN

^^^00033657^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library