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Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Laura Levitt

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, "Jews and Feminism" questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this realm of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for Jewish women.


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By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for Jewish women.

Exploring the immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe for America, as well as their desire to make this country their permanent home, Levitt raises questions about the search for stability in specific Jewish religious and cultural traditions which is linked to the liberal academy as well as feminist study, thus offering an account of an ambivalent Jewish feminist embrace of America as home.

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  • Title Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home
  • Author Laura Levitt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York and London
  • Date 1997-06-25
  • ISBN 9780415914451 / 0415914450
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.97 x 0.56 in (22.81 x 15.16 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminism - Religious aspects - Judaism, Women in Judaism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-2757
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.082

About the author

Laura Levitt is Assistant Professor of Religion at Temple University where she also teaches in the Women's Studies Department. She is co-editor of Judaism Since Gender, also available from Routledge.

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