Women and Jewish Law: The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today - Softcover

Biale, Rachel

 
9780805210491: Women and Jewish Law: The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805210490 ISBN 13: 9780805210491
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

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How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this pathbreaking study points the way for “informed change” in the status of women in Jewish life.

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Rachel Biale grew up on Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Israel. She earned an M.A. in Jewish history at UCLA and an M.S.W. at Yeshiva University. She lives in Berkley, California, where she is a practicing psychotherapist.

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How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this pathbreaking study points the way for "informed change" in the status of women in Jewish life.

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805210490
ISBN 13 
9780805210491
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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