Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism
Resistance, Identity, and Religious Change in Israel
Biographical note
Yael Israel-Cohen, Ph.D. (2011), Tel Aviv University, has published academic articles on the topic of women's status in Orthodoxy and is a co-author of the book Building a Diaspora, Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA (Brill, 2006).
Readership
All interested in women's changing status in religious life, religious change, and Orthodox Judaism.
Table of contents
Part I: Religion, Modernity, and Women
Chapter 1: Religious Change and Women's Agency in Conservative Religions
Chapter 2: Orthodox Judaism and Women's Standing
Chapter 3: Methodology
Part II: Exclusion and Resistance
Chapter 4: The Battle over Women's Standing in Synagogue Ritual
Chapter 5: Orthodox Women Rabbis? "It's only a matter of time"
Part III: Behind the Label: "I am an Orthodox Feminist"
Chapter 6: The Cultural Contextualization of Orthodox Feminist Identity
Chapter 7: Orthodox Feminists talk about Feminism in a Wider Perspective
Part IV: Orthodox Feminism beyond a Gendered Discourse
Chapter 8: The Trend towards an Increasingly Hybrid and Pluralistic Orthodoxy
Chapter 9: The Present and the Future of Orthodox Feminism
Appendix: Interview Questions
Chapter 1: Religious Change and Women's Agency in Conservative Religions
Chapter 2: Orthodox Judaism and Women's Standing
Chapter 3: Methodology
Part II: Exclusion and Resistance
Chapter 4: The Battle over Women's Standing in Synagogue Ritual
Chapter 5: Orthodox Women Rabbis? "It's only a matter of time"
Part III: Behind the Label: "I am an Orthodox Feminist"
Chapter 6: The Cultural Contextualization of Orthodox Feminist Identity
Chapter 7: Orthodox Feminists talk about Feminism in a Wider Perspective
Part IV: Orthodox Feminism beyond a Gendered Discourse
Chapter 8: The Trend towards an Increasingly Hybrid and Pluralistic Orthodoxy
Chapter 9: The Present and the Future of Orthodox Feminism
Appendix: Interview Questions
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