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9780813516387

Rachel's Daughters

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813516387

  • ISBN10:

    0813516382

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-06-01
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

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Summary

Explores the experiences and concerns of newly Orthodox Jewish women, addressing such issues as family, feminism, individuality, and spiritual renewal

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(3)
Who Is a Ba'al Teshuvah?
4(1)
Where to Find Ba'alei Teshuvah
5(2)
Who Is Most Likely to Become a Ba'alat Teshuvah?
7(1)
Why Jewish Orthodoxy?
7(3)
Ba'alot Teshuvah as Postfeminist Women?
10(5)
Youth and Its Discontents: Ba'alot Tesbuvab as Seekers
15(21)
Many Roads Home
24(7)
When Are You a Ba'al Teshuvah?
31(1)
``Culture in Crisis'' Theories and the Search for Meaning
32(4)
Four Portraits: Ba'alot Tesbuvab as Finders
36(31)
Chana: The Lubavitch
37(5)
Miriam: Another Kind of Hasid
42(4)
Alisa: The Strictly Orthodox
46(3)
Debra: The Modern
49(3)
Hasidic and Non-Hasidic Women: Theological Differences and Similarities
52(15)
Sex-segregated Living: Celebrating the Female
67(19)
The Laws of Niddah: Menstrual Impurity and Sexual Prohibition
71(4)
Practicing Family Purity Laws
75(11)
Revaluing Domesticity: Ba'alot Tesbuvab and Religious-Right Women
86(27)
Orthodoxy's Profamilialism
90(5)
Patriarchal Profamilialism and Contraception and Abortion
95(3)
Patriarchal Profamilialism and Childrearing
98(4)
Religious-Right Women and Patriarchal Profamilialism
102(4)
In Defense of Home: Ties That Bind
106(7)
Sex-segregated Living: Women's Culture in the Making
113(18)
How Segregated from Secular Living Are These Newly Orthodox Women?
114(7)
Mechanisms for Maintaining Sex-Segregation within the Orthodox Community
121(1)
In the Company of Other Women
122(4)
Analyzing Patriarchy from Within
126(5)
Paradoxes: Feminism and Religious-Right Women
131(24)
Institutions and the Individual
133(3)
Ba'alot Teshuvah: Looking like the Religious Right?
136(6)
The Limitations of Liberal Feminism for Both Feminists and Religious-Right Women
142(7)
Ba'alot Teshuvah: Looking like Contemporary Radical Feminists?
149(6)
Conclusion 155(14)
Notes 169(46)
References 215(16)
Index 231

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