Tradition and equality in Jewish marriage : beyond the sanctification of subordination / Melanie Landau.

Author
Landau, Melanie [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
  • ©2012
Description
vii, 203 pages ; 24 cm

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    Series
    Bloomsbury studies in Jewish thought. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Often when people have become alienated from their religious backgrounds, they access their traditions through lifecycle events such as marriage. At times, modern values such as gender equality may be at odds with some of the traditions; many of which have always been in a state of flux in relationship to changing social, economic and political realities. Traditional Jewish marriage is based on the man acquiring the woman, which has symbolic and actual ramifications. Grounded in the traditional texts yet accessible, this book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study, the highest cultural practice and women's exemption from positive commandments. Melanie Landau offers two alternative models of partnership that partially or fully bypass the non-reciprocity of traditional Jewish marriage and that have their basis in the ancient rabbinic texts"--Provided by publisher.
    Notes
    Originally published: London: Continuum, 2012.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.
    Contents
    • Laying the table
    • The legal effects of marriage
    • Rebellious women and husband-owned sexuality
    • Conditional marriage
    • Derekh kiddushin (quasi-marriage).
    ISBN
    • 9781472533067 ((paperback))
    • 1472533062 ((paperback))
    • 9781441138064 ((hardcover))
    • 1441138064 ((hardcover))
    • 9781441139337 ((ebook (pdf)))
    • 1441139338 ((ebook (pdf)))
    OCLC
    858009838
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