Beyond Patriarchy: Jewish Fathers and Families - Hardcover

Fuchs, Lawrence H.

 
9780874519419: Beyond Patriarchy: Jewish Fathers and Families
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0874519411 ISBN 13: 9780874519419
Verlag: Brandeis University Press, 2000

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Book by Fuchs Lawrence H

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"[A] welcome addition to [an] expanding field . . . [Fuchs] offers a sobering yet, in the end, hopeful look at the way in which patriarchy is interwoven into the Jewish history of the family . . . He convincingly argues that since Judaism has from its earliest writings and traditions viewed the family as the primary religious institution, it mandates that fathers be involved with their families." -- Choice

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Is patriarchy necessary to ensure responsible fathering? Lawrence H. Fuchs, author of Family Matters, argues that the link between male dominance and fatherhood is no longer iron-clad. Analyzing the universality of patriarchy and its incentives for cultural fatherhood, Fuchs concedes that the importance of biological differences between the sexes was a possible, even plausible, basis for the evolution of patriarchy. But in this timely work he imagines a new paradigm of fatherhood for a post-patriarchal age, one inspired by the history of Jewish patriarchy. Two millennia ago the rabbis established the strategies to curb the extreme abuses of patriarchy found in all civilizations. They did so by according wives significant sexual and economic rights. In the last two centuries as Jews became more integrated into the societies in which they lived, their unique variation of patriarchy was disrupted. Fuchs argues that the Jewish story sets the precedent for fundamental change in the nature of patriarchy today, thus breaking what may have been the evolutionary connection between male dominance and incentives for fatherhood. It is Fuchs's startling conclusion that the Jewish precedent points to the next step in evolution: fathers without patriarchy.

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Verlag
Brandeis University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0874519411
ISBN 13 
9780874519419
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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