"Blessed is he who says and does" : gender, law, and Jewish communal identity
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores the ways in which contemporary Jewish law defines women's place in the Jewish community. I carry out a close reading of recent responsa on women and public prayer, women and ritual objects, and women in the rabbinate that utilizes Ronald Dworkin's theory of law as integrity, Catherine Bell's understanding of ritual, and Pierre Bourdieu's conception of the habitus. I identify several main themes in the current halakhic attitude toward women. Women occupy an ambiguous space in this rhetoric: they are Jews, but if Jews are also defined as those obligated in all the commandments, then women are in some important sense outsiders to the 'real' Jewish community. The decisors struggle with this issue, and with the legitimacy of women's requests for greater Jewish participation. Some seek to maintain the status quo in the name of fidelity to tradition, while others ultimately grant women a limited set of new rights as exceptional individuals rather than as a group.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Rosenberg, Jessica Ann | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies. | |
| Primary advisor | Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva | |
| Thesis advisor | Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva | |
| Thesis advisor | Magid, Shaul, 1958- | |
| Thesis advisor | Weitzman, Steven, 1965- | |
| Thesis advisor | Zipperstein, Steven J, 1950- | |
| Advisor | Magid, Shaul, 1958- | |
| Advisor | Weitzman, Steven, 1965- | |
| Advisor | Zipperstein, Steven J, 1950- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jessica Ann Rosenberg. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Religious Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Jessica Ann Rosenberg
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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