Jews and Feminism

The Ambivalent Search for Home
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-91444-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for Jewish women.

Exploring the immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe for America, as well as their desire to make this country their permanent home, Levitt raises questions about the search for stability in specific Jewish religious and cultural traditions which is linked to the liberal academy as well as feminist study, thus offering an account of an ambivalent Jewish feminist embrace of America as home.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levitt, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface The Journey Homeintroduction -- HomeOne Embraces Part One Jewish Women at Home: Rabbinic Judaism, Liberal Jewish TheologyTwo Reading KetubbotThree Becoming LiberalFour The Sexual ContractFive Covenant or Contract?: Marriage as TheologySix Marriage as Feminist Theology? Part Two Feminist Study: Reconfiguring Jewish IdentitySeven Feminist Dreams of HomeEight Jews in Feminist StudyPart Three Ambivalent EmbracesNine Returning to AtlantaTen Claiming AmericaEleven What's in a Name?Conclusion Writing Home

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Levitt is Assistant Professor of Religion at Temple University where she also teaches in the Women's Studies Department. She is co-editor of Judaism Since Gender, also available from Routledge.