Jews and Gender

Leonard J. Greenspoon is a professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of theology, and holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University. He is the editor of the annual Studies in Jewish Civilization series published by Purdue University Press.

Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction Contributors The Heroines of Everyday Life: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott An Ironic/Satirical, Subversively Proto-Feminist Reading of the Daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36, by Jay Caballero Constructing Gender Bride by Bride: Rabbinic Ideas of Citizenship in Light of Gender, by Susan Marks Gendering Emotion in Genesis Rabbah, by Joel Gereboff The Legalization of Modesty: Sources and Significance, by Emmanuel Bloch Marriage, Motherhood, and the Matriarchs in the Zohar, by Margaret Gurewitz Smith Chasidism and Gender through a New Reading of a Feminist Story of R. Nachman of Breslov, by Roni Bar Lev Jewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman's Story, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides "He Wanted to Make Them into Educated, Enlightened People": Jewish Immigrants, Acculturation, and Gender Stereotypesin A. D. Oguz's Di fraydenker, by Matthew H. Brittingham Locking Up Al Levy: Jewish Masculinity in the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Jeannette Gabriel Golda Meir, Sarojini Naidu, and the Rise of Female Political Leaders in British India and British Mandate Palestine, by Joseph R. Hodes Jewish Feminism as a Model for Judaism as a Choice, by Hannah Kehat The Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors: From Elaine May to Claudia Weill, by Lawrence Baron "When You're a Funny Girl": Confirming and Complicating Accepted Cultural Images of Jewish Femininity in the Films of Barbra Streisand, by Samantha Pickette "Schlemiel Feminism": Jewish Humor and Activism on Broad City, by David Gillota Poskot in the Palace of Torah: A Preliminary Study of Orthodox Feminism and Halachic Process, by Gail Labovitz