Levitt Jews and Feminism

The Ambivalent Search for Home
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-04638-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

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

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface The Journey Home
introduction -- Home
One Embraces
Part One Jewish Women at Home: Rabbinic Judaism, Liberal Jewish TheologyTwo Reading Ketubbot
Three Becoming Liberal
Four The Sexual Contract
Five Covenant or Contract?: Marriage as Theology
Six Marriage as Feminist Theology? Part Two Feminist Study: Reconfiguring Jewish Identity
Seven Feminist Dreams of Home
Eight Jews in Feminist Study
Part Three Ambivalent Embraces
Nine Returning to Atlanta
Ten Claiming America
Eleven 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.