Jewish Feminism (eBook)

Framed and Reframed

Esther Fuchs (Autor)

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2018
248 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498566506 (ISBN)

Infos

This book argues that Jewish feminist theory is currently limited by several frames of reference that are usually taken for granted. The critical analysis is intended to release the grip of these limiting frames on Jewish feminism so as to let it evolve, grow, and live up to its fullest potential.

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In the last three decades, hundreds of books and essays have been published on women, gender, and Jewish Studies. This burgeoning scholarship has not been adequately theorized, contextualized, or historicized. This book argues that Jewish feminist studies is currently constrained by multiple frames of reference that require re-examination, a self-critical awareness, and a serious reflective inquiry into the models, paradigms, and assumptions that inform, shape, and define this area of academic interest. This book is the first critical analysis of Jewish feminist scholarship, tracing it from its tentative beginnings in the late 1970s to contemporary academic articulations of its disciplinary projects. It focuses on the assumptions, evasions, omissions, inconsistencies, and gaps in this scholarship, and notably the absence of debate, contestation, and interrogation of authoritative articulations of its presumed goals, investments, and priorities. The book teases out implicit thinking about mapping, direction, and orientation from introductions to leading anthologies and engages critically with the few explicitly theoretical works on Jewish feminist studies, contesting ideas that have become hegemonic in some areas, and interrogating the limitations these theories impose on future trajectories in Jewish feminist studies. Each chapter outlines the theoretical assumptions that inform salient publications in the field, providing a close reading of scholarly texts that justify certain practices. The book is divided into four chapters, each of which focuses on a different frame of reference. It outlines the way in which the various frames that have so far been imposed on Jewish feminism, the ethnocentric, liberal, personal, masculinist, and essentialist, have arrested its theoretical elaboration and articulation. The book includes both interdisciplinary anthologies on gender and Jewish identity and disciplinary publications in history, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and Holocaust studies.

Autor

Esther Fuchs is professor emerita of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Inhalt

PrologueIntroduction: Jewish Feminism Framed1. Jewish Feminist Scholarship: The Liberal Frame2. Jewish Feminist Theory: The Personal Frame3. The New Jewish Studies: The Masculinist Frame4. Women and Holocaust Studies: The Essentialist FrameBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: essentialist definitions • Ethnocentrism • Feminism • feminist literary criticism • feminist theory • Gender and Judaism • Gender Studies • Hebrew Bible • Hebrew literature • Heterosexism • Holocaust studies • interdisciplinary anthologies • Jewish Cultural Studies • Jewish feminist historiograph • Jewish feminist identity • Jewish feminist scholarship • Jewish women’s studies • liberal feminism • Literary criticism • women's studies
• ISBN-13: 9781498566506 / 9781498566506