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Men and women : gender, Judaism and democracy
Title
Men and women : gender, Judaism and democracy / editor, Rachel Elior ; [translated from the Hebrew Rav Goni (vol. III) by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel].
ISBN
9657108543
Published
Jerusalem : Van Leer Jerusalem Instititue ; Jerusalem ; New York : Urim, c2004.
Physical Description
213 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
A printed version of the conference, "Men and women: Gender, Judaism, and democracy" held in July 1998 conducted under the auspices of the Framework for Contemporary Jewish Thought and Identity at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Variant and related titles
Gender, Judaism and democracy
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 15, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The law: patriarchy and equality. The family status of women: legal changes and social climate / Pinhas Shifman
"The king's daughter is all dignified within" (Psalms 45:14): basing Israeli women's status and rights on human dignity / Orit Kamir
Israeli divorce law: the maldistribution of power, its abuses, and the "status" of Jewish women / Susan Weiss
Women's suffrage: a Halakhic perspective / Deborah Weissman
Past and present: history and culture from a gender perspective. "Blessed art thou, Lord our God, who hast not made me a woman" / Rachel Elior
Feminism as Tikkun ha-olam / Lea Shakdiel
The minyan: gender and democracy / Chana Safrai
Socio-religious encounters in the past. Appropriating the Bible: women and Haskalah in the 19th century / Tova Cohen
Written by men for men: feminist revolution and innovation in the canonical sources / Naftali Rothenberg
The educational process from a gender perspective. The educational message to girls and boys in an age of change / Bilha Admanit
Feminist currents and trends among various Orthodox groups / Chana Kehat.
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