Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation » (2nd Edition)

TOVA HARTMAN is a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and author of Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions (2002).

An innovative analysis of how creative tensions between modern Orthodox Judaism and feminism can lead to unexpected perspectives and beliefs

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
Feminism and Modern Orthodoxy     1
Facing the Legacy of the Canon: Affirmation, Rejection, and Reinterpretation     20
Modesty and the Religious Male Gaze     45
The Paternal Voice in Liturgy     62
The Hands of Rabbis: Orthodox Women and Niddah     81
Roles, Rules, and Responsa: The Backlash against Feminism     99
Go Away and Change     121
Glossary     135
Notes     139
Bibliography     145
Index     155