Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar EraLubavitcher Women in America offers a rare look at the world of Hasidic women activists since World War II. The revival of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in the second half of the twentieth century has baffled many assimilated American Jews, especially those Jewish feminists hostile to Orthodox interpretations of women's roles. This text gives voice to the lives of those Hasidic women who served the late Lubavitcher Rebbe as educators and outreach activists, and examines their often successful efforts to recruit other Jewish women to the Lubavitcher community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Central to this book is how Lubavitcher women have "talked back" to American feminist thought. Arguing that American feminism cannot liberate Jewish women--that a specifically Jewish spirituality is more appropriate and fulfilling--Lubavitcher women have helped to swell the ranks of their Rebbe's followers by aggressively promoting the appeal of traditional, structured Jewish observance. The book thus offers a unique look at female anti-feminist religious rhetoric, articulately presented by Jewish "fundamentalists." |
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... feminist theorists and historians grew more alert to women's ethnic ... movements or ideologies offering them restricted status ? Why would women ... antifeminist women in women's history curricula ? These are the questions that sent me ...
... feminist theorists and historians grew more alert to women's ethnic ... movements or ideologies offering them restricted status ? Why would women ... antifeminist women in women's history curricula ? These are the questions that sent me ...
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... movements , it is no longer suffi- cient to dwell on what they are not ... women's culture , " including hierarchies and ( limited ) authority . Because ... feminist texts on women's religious experience in history and community , I ...
... movements , it is no longer suffi- cient to dwell on what they are not ... women's culture , " including hierarchies and ( limited ) authority . Because ... feminist texts on women's religious experience in history and community , I ...
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... movement , its proponents , and its achievements . Any accurate historical ... feminist criticism . My initial encounters with Hasidic women's literature ... counterfeminist sentiment informing Lubavitcher women's writing . This defensive ...
... movement , its proponents , and its achievements . Any accurate historical ... feminist criticism . My initial encounters with Hasidic women's literature ... counterfeminist sentiment informing Lubavitcher women's writing . This defensive ...
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Contents
A WOMAN OF VALOR WHO CAN FIND? | 13 |
EDUCATE A CHILD ACCORDING TO His WAYS | 27 |
INGATHERING THOSE THAT WERE FAR AWAY THE NESHEI CHABAD CONVENTIONS | 53 |
EVERYTHING EMANATES FROM THE WOMAN | 76 |
WHATEVER Is HAPPENING IN THE GENTILE WORLD Is REFLECTED IN THE JEWISH WORLD REACTIONS TO FEMINISM | 98 |
WE MUST LIVE WITH THE TIMES | 121 |
GLOSSARY OF YIDDISH AND HEBREW TERMS | 139 |
NOTES | 145 |
HASIDIC HISTORIOGRAPHY | 163 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 169 |
INDEX | 181 |
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Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era Bonnie J. Morris Limited preview - 2012 |
Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era Bonnie J. Morris Limited preview - 1998 |
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