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Midrashic Women

Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

By: Judith R. Baskin

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Midrashic Women

Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

By: Judith R. Baskin

While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature. Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives of creation, and justifications of female disadvantages, as well as aggadic understandings of the ideal wife, the dilemma of infertility, and women among women and as individuals, she shows that rabbinic Judaism, a tradition formed by men for a male community, deeply valued the essential contributions of wives and mothers while also consciously constructing women as other and lesser than men. Recent feminist scholarship has illuminated many aspects of the significance of gender in biblical and halakhic texts but there has been little previous study of how aggadic literature portrays females and the feminine. Such representations, Baskin argues, often offer a more nuanced and complex view of women and their actual lives than the rigorous proscriptions of legal discourse.

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Brandeis University Press

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1611688698

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Midrashic Women

Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

By: Judith R. Baskin

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Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

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Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

By: Judith R. Baskin

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Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

By: Judith R. Baskin

A unique look at how non-legal rabbinic writings imagine women and their lives.

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1584651784

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Rereading The Rabbis

A Woman's Voice

By: Judith Hauptman

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Rereading The Rabbis

A Woman's Voice

By: Judith Hauptman

Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the

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Routledge

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0429966202

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9780429966200

The Women's Passover Companion

Women's Reflections on the Festival of Freedom

By: Sharon Cohen Ainsfeld,Tara Mohr,Catherine Spector

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The Women's Passover Companion

Women's Reflections on the Festival of Freedom

By: Sharon Cohen Ainsfeld,Tara Mohr,Catherine Spector

A powerful—and empowering—gathering of women’s voices transmitting Judaism’s Passover legacy to the next generation. The Women’s Passover Companion offers an in-depth examination of women’s relationships to Passover as well as the roots and meanings of women’s seders. This groundbreaking collection captures the voices of Jewish women—rabbis, scholars, activists, political leaders and artists—who engage in a provocative conversation about the themes of the Exodus and exile, oppression and liberation, history and memory, as they relate to contemporary women’s lives. Whether seeking new insights into the text and traditions of Passover or learning about women’s seders for the first time, both women and men will find this collection an inspiring introduction to the Passover season and an eye-opening exploration of questions central to Jewish women, to Passover and to Judaism itself.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1580236146

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9781580236140

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