Jews And Feminism
By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for Jewish women.\ Exploring the immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe for America, as well as their...
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\ \ \ Acknowledgments\ \ \ \ \ preface: The Journey Home\ \ \ \ \ introduction: Home\ 1\ \ \ 1\ Embraces\ 15\ \ \ 2\ Reading Ketubbot\ 29\ \ \ 3\ Becoming Liberal\ 51\ \ \ 4\ The Sexual Contract\ 63\ \ \ 5\ Covenant or Contract? Marriage as Theology\ 75\ \ \ 6\ Marriage as Feminist Theology?\ 91\ \ \ 7\ Feminist Dreams of Home\ 107\ \ \ 8\ Jews in Feminist Study\ 121\ \ \ 9\ Returning to Atlanta\ 135\ \ \ 10\ Claiming America\ 151\ \ \ 11\ What's in a Name?\ 159\ \ \ conclusion\ Writing Home\ 163\ \ \ \ Notes\ 165\ \ \ \ Selected Bibliography\ 211\ \ \ \ Index\ 221\ \
\ BooknewsA granddaughter of Jewish immigrants to the US, Levitt (religion, Temple U.) describes her attempts to claim from her various homes the legacies that she both lost and found in her parents' home. She also discusses her efforts to lay claim to liberal and feminist positions in the present. There is, she asserts, an ambivalence at the heart of immigration that arises from the realization that nothing, including home, is ever really permanent. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
