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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 o...
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The authors present the lives of biblical Jewish leaders like Queen Esther and the Prophetess Deborah as well as modern unique personalities like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Prime Minister Golda Meier. At the end of each biography is a section describing what young readers can do to understand the contribution made by these famous people, as well as a detailed bibliography of where to find additional information about each woman.
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