Women of Valor
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9602-0 (ISBN)
Honorable Mention for the Robert K. Martin Prize 2019
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. Karen E. H. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype in Women of Valor to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves. She examines Orthodox women as they appear in memoirs, comics, novels, and movies, and speaks with the authors, filmmakers, and musicians who create these representations. Throughout the work, Skinazi threads lines from the poem “Eshes Chayil,” the Biblical description of an Orthodox “Woman of Valor.” This proverb unites Orthodoxy and feminism in a complex relationship, where Orthodox women continuously question, challenge, and negotiate Orthodox and feminist values. Ultimately, these women create paths that unite their work, passions, and families under the framework of an “Eshes Chayil,” a woman who situates religious conviction within her own power.
KAREN E. H. SKINAZI is a senior lecturer and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. She is a scholar of multiethnic, American, and women’s literature and published a critical edition of Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model.
Table of Contents
An Unorthodox Guide to Orthodox Judaism
A Woman of Valor (Proverbs 31:10-31)
Introduction: She Puts Her Hand to the Distaff
Chapter 1: A G-d-fearing Woman, She Should Be Praised: Exposure, Dialogue, and Remedy in “Off-the-Derech” Narratives
Chapter 2: A Woman of Valor Who Can Find: Crime Fiction as Primers of Orthodoxy
Chapter 3: She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom: This Bridge Called My Voice
Chapter 4: She Senses that Her Enterprise is Good: Representations of Orthodox Businesswomen
Chapter 5: 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
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 b-w figures |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9602-5 / 0813596025 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9602-0 / 9780813596020 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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