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 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1w8h403 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- An unorthodox guide to Orthodox Judaism
- A woman of valor (Proverbs 31:10-31)
- Introduction : she puts her hand to the distaff
- A G-d-fearing woman, she should be praised : exposure, dialogue, and remedy in "Off-the-Derech" narratives
- A woman of valor who can find : crime fiction as primers of Orthodoxy
- She opens her mouth with wisdom : this bridge called my voice
- She senses that her enterprise is good : representations of Orthodox businesswomen
- She will be praised at the gates by her very own deeds : the Orthodox artist and the fruit of her hands
- Coda : many daughters have attained valor.