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Women's Transformations of Public Judaism: Religiosity, Egalitarianism, and the Symbolic Power of Changing Gender Roles

1 Jan 2001

This essay explores women's transformations of public Judaism, concentrating in communal rituals and life-cycle ceremonies, synagogue life, and diverse educational settings, which are arguably the loci most meaningful to westernized, religious affiliation Jews. Resistance to those changes is evidence of the symbolic power of gender role transformations.
gender religion social conditions social values culture and religion religion and religious groups american jews

Authors

Sylvia Barack Fishman

Date uploaded to Policy Archive
2008-10-17
Pages
25
Policy Archive ID
9959
Published in
United Kingdom

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