| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Editors' Introduction: A Way In -- Part One: Knowledges; Engendering Jewish Religious History; Theorizing Jewish Patriarchy in extremis; Interarticulations: Gender, Race, and the Jewish Woman Question; Words and Radiators; When the Women Came to Shul; Power/Knowledge/Gender:The Oranges-and-Grapefruit Debate; The Gender of the Angel; Other Tales: Museum Objects, Women, and Jewish Knowledges; American Jewish Culture Through aGender-Tinted Lens |
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Gender, Colonialism, and the Representationof Middle Eastern JewsBoys of the Wissenschaft; Toward a Postzionist Discourse; Finding a Language for Memories of the Future; On Seams and Seamlessness; Notes from the Second Generation; Teaching Jewish Studies; Rabbinic Judaism and the Creation of Woman; Justify My Love; Medievals Are Not Us; Part Two: Studies; A Jewess, More and/or Less; A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender inJewish Philosophy; Circumcision and Jewish Women's Identity: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Failed Assimilation; Jesus as Theological Transvestite |
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Mengele, the Gynecologist, and Other Stories of Women's Survival(The Problem with) Embraces; Notes on Contributors |
| Summary |
Judaism Since Gender offers a radically new concept of Jewish Studies, staking out new intellectual terrain and redefining the discipline as an intrinsically feminist practice. The question of how knowledge is gendered has been discussed by philosophers and feminists for years, yet is still new to many scholars of Judaism. Judaism Since Gender illuminates a crucial debate among intellectuals both within and outside the academy, and ultimately overturns the belief that scholars of Judaism are still la |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Women in Judaism.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Women in Judaism
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Judentum
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Frau
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Feminism -- religiösa aspekter.
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Kvinnor och judendom.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peskowitz, Miriam, 1964-
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Levitt, Laura, 1960-
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| LC no. |
96042109 |
| ISBN |
9781136667152 |
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1136667156 |
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9781136667220 |
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1136667229 |
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