Challenge and Conformity
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ISBN13: | 9781786941718 |
ISBN10: | 1786941716 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | pages |
Size: | 239x163 mm |
Weight: | 589 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 12 Tables, black & white |
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'Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz's in-depth study of the religious experience of Orthodox women raises questions for the rabbinic establishment... an important new book.'
Simon Rocker, The Jewish Chronicle
Introduction
1.
Studying Jewish Women
The Double Invisibility of
Orthodox Jewish Women
The Scope of Women?s Religious
Lives
Overlapping
Worlds I: The Intersection of Men?s and Women?s Religious Lives
Overlapping Worlds II: Living in
Jewish and Western Contexts
Power and Patriarchy: Do Orthodox
Women Have Agency?
2.
Setting the Scene: The Jewish Landscape
Jews in London: Historical
Background
Community,
Communities, Networks, and Identity
The
Development of British Orthodoxy and the British Jewish Landscape
Jewish Religious Topography Today
Changing Moods among British
Jewish Women
Defining Terms: Talking about the
Anglo-Jewish Community
Previous Research on British
Orthodox Women
3. The View
from the Ladies? Gallery: Women?s ?Official? Life in the Community
Women and the Synagogue
The Changing Place of Women in
Other Communal Arenas
4. Contested
Prayers and Powerful Blessings: Women?s ?Unofficial? Life in the Community
Creating Sacred Spaces
Nuturing the Community
New Developments: Sharing the
Sacred with Men
5.
Women?s ?Official? Life in the Family
The Sabbath
Food and Kashrut
Passover
Mikveh and ?Family Purity?
Modesty
Visiting the Dead
Prayer and Relationship with God
6. Red
Threads and Amulets: Women?s ?Unofficial? Life in the Family
Questioning the Community:
Limitations and Caveats
Definitions and Status of
Practices
Testing Stereotypes and
Assumptions
What Customs Are Practised?
Who Practises These Customs?
Age as a
Factor in Knowledge and Performance of Customs
Origins
and Development
The
Question of ?Magic?
Women?s
Understanding of Customs and Practices
Conclusion
Appendices:
Background Data
Bibliography
Index