Women of valor : Orthodox Jewish troll fighters, crime writers, and rock stars in contemporary literature and culture /
Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of Jewish women's feminist portrayals of O...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1w8h403 |
| Summary: | Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of Jewish women's feminist portrayals of Orthodox women in literature, film, and music. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-268) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813596037 0813596033 9780813596051 081359605X 9780813596020 0813596025 9780813596013 0813596017 |