Jewish Women
Between Conformity and Agency
Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-57679-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-57679-4 (ISBN)
Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency examines the concepts of gender and sexuality through the primary lens of visual and material culture from antiquity through to the present day.
The backbone of this transhistorical and transcontextual study is the question of Jewish women’s agency in four different geographical, chronological, and methodological contexts, beginning with women’s dress codes in Roman-Byzantine Syro-Palestine, continuing with rituals of purity in medieval Ashkenaz, worship in papal Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, and ending with marriage and divorce in Israeli film. Each of these explorations is interested in creating a dialogue between the patriarchal legacy of the traditional texts and the chronologically corresponding visual and material culture. The author challenges traditional approaches to the study of Jewish culture by employing tools from art history, archaeology, and film and media studies. In each of these different contexts, there is ample evidence that women—despite persistent overall structural discrimination—have found ways to challenge male constructs of gender norms. Ultimately, these examples from past and present times highlight women’s eminence in shaping Jewish history and culture.
Bringing a new interdisciplinary lens to the study of the history of gender and sexuality, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish history and culture, art history, archaeology, and film studies.
The backbone of this transhistorical and transcontextual study is the question of Jewish women’s agency in four different geographical, chronological, and methodological contexts, beginning with women’s dress codes in Roman-Byzantine Syro-Palestine, continuing with rituals of purity in medieval Ashkenaz, worship in papal Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, and ending with marriage and divorce in Israeli film. Each of these explorations is interested in creating a dialogue between the patriarchal legacy of the traditional texts and the chronologically corresponding visual and material culture. The author challenges traditional approaches to the study of Jewish culture by employing tools from art history, archaeology, and film and media studies. In each of these different contexts, there is ample evidence that women—despite persistent overall structural discrimination—have found ways to challenge male constructs of gender norms. Ultimately, these examples from past and present times highlight women’s eminence in shaping Jewish history and culture.
Bringing a new interdisciplinary lens to the study of the history of gender and sexuality, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish history and culture, art history, archaeology, and film studies.
Katharina Galor is the Hirschfeld Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Her recent publications include The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans (2013); Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (2017); and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020).
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anonymous Portraits
1 Social Skin in Roman-Byzantine Syro-Palestine
2 Ritual Purity in Medieval Ashkenaz
3 Sacred Space in Papal Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin
4 Marriage and Divorce in Israeli Film
Conclusion: Patriarchy and Feminism
Appendix: Filmography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Jewish Studies Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 123 Halftones, black and white; 123 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 734 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-57679-0 / 1032576790 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-57679-4 / 9781032576794 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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