Jews and Gender features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics include subversive readings of biblical texts; reappraisal of rabbinic theory and practice; women in mysticism, Chasidism, and Yiddish literature; and women in contemporary culture and politics. Accessible and comprehensive, this volume will appeal to the general reader in addition to engaging with contemporary academic scholarship.
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
The Heroines of Everyday Life: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
An Ironic/Satirical, Subversively Proto-Feminist Reading of the Daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36, by Jay Caballero
Constructing Gender Bride by Bride: Rabbinic Ideas of Citizenship in Light of Gender, by Susan Marks
Gendering Emotion in Genesis Rabbah, by Joel Gereboff
The Legalization of Modesty: Sources and Significance, by Emmanuel Bloch
Marriage, Motherhood, and the Matriarchs in the Zohar, by Margaret Gurewitz Smith
Chasidism and Gender through a New Reading of a Feminist Story of R. Nachman of Breslov, by Roni Bar Lev
Jewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman’s Story, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
“He Wanted to Make Them into Educated, Enlightened People”: Jewish Immigrants, Acculturation, and Gender Stereotypes
in A. D. Oguz’s Di fraydenker, by Matthew H. Brittingham
Locking Up Al Levy: Jewish Masculinity in the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Jeannette Gabriel
Golda Meir, Sarojini Naidu, and the Rise of Female Political Leaders in British India and British Mandate Palestine, by Joseph R. Hodes
Jewish Feminism as a Model for Judaism as a Choice, by Hannah Kehat
The Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors: From Elaine May to Claudia Weill, by Lawrence Baron
“When You’re a Funny Girl”: Confirming and Complicating Accepted Cultural Images of Jewish Femininity in the Films of Barbra Streisand, by Samantha Pickette
“Schlemiel Feminism”: Jewish Humor and Activism on Broad City, by David Gillota
Poskot in the Palace of Torah: A Preliminary Study of Orthodox Feminism and Halachic Process, by Gail Labovitz
