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Gender and Judaism: The Transformation of Tradition »

Authors: Tamar Rudavsky (Editor), Tamar Rudavsky
ISBN-13: 9780814774526, ISBN-10: 0814774520
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: March 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Tamar Rudavsky

Mark Lilly is Senior Lecturer at the University of Tunis and the editor of Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Texts.

Book Synopsis

A groundbreaking work that explores the statues of women and the complicated gender relations found in Judaism.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Toward a Gender-Inclusive Account of Halakhah	3
2	Rejection: A Rabbinic Response to Wife Beating	13
3	An Analysis of Rabbinic Hermeneutics: B. T. Kiddushin 34a	25
4	Reconfiguring Home: Jewish Feminist Identity/ies	39
5	The Secret of Jewish Femininity: Hiddenness, Power, and Physicality in the Theology of Orthodox Women in the Contemporary World	51
6	Servants and Sexuality: Seduction, Surrogacy, and Rape: Some Observations Concerning Class, Gender, and Race in Early Modern Italian Jewish Families	81
7	An Adventure in Otherness: Nahida Remy-Ruth Lazarus (1849-1928)	99
8	Jewish Identity and the "New Woman": Central European Jewish University Women in the Early Twentieth Century	113
9	The Women Who Would Be Rabbis	123
10	Configurations of Patriarchy, Judaism, and Nazism in German Feminist Thought	135
11	Eavesdropping on Angels and Laughing at God: Theorizing a Subversive Matriarchy	157
12	Mass Culture and the City in the Works of German-Jewish Novelists: Claire Goll, Veza Canetti, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Gertrud Kolmar	169
13	Pauline Wengeroff and the Voice of Jewish Modernity	181
14	Traced in Ink: Women's Lives in "Qotzo shel Yud" by Yalag and "Mishpachah" by D. Baron	191
15	On Becoming Female: Crossing the Gender Boundaries in Kabbalistic Ritual and Myth	209
16	The Geopolitics of Jewish Feminism	231
17	From Equality to Transformation: The Challenge of Women's Rabbinic Leadership	243
18	Triple Play: Deconstructing Jewish Women's Lives	255
19	Of Mice and Supermen: Images of Jewish Masculinity	279
20	An Anthropological and Postmodern Critique of Jewish Feminist Theory	295
	About the Editor	307
	About the Contributors	309
	Bibliography	315