Judaism Since Gender

Miriam Peskowitz is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Florida. Laura Levitt is Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University.

• Chapter 1 Editors’ Introduction: “A Way In”, Miriam Peskowitz, Laura Levitt; Part One Knowledges; Chapter 2 Engendering Jewish Religious History, Miriam Peskowitz; Chapter 3 Theorizing Jewish Patriarchy in extremis, Naomi Seidman; Chapter 4 Interarticulations: Gender, Race, and the Jewish Woman Question, Ann Pellegrini; Chapter 5 Words and Radiators, Irena Klepfisz; Chapter 6 When the Women Came to Shul, Karla Goldman; Chapter 7 Power / Knowledge / Gender: The Oranges-and-Grapefruit Debate, Tamar El-Or; Chapter 8 The Gender of the Angel, Jonathan Boyarin; Chapter 9 Other Tales: Museum Objects, Women, and Jewish Knowledges, Paula Chaiken; Chapter 10 American Jewish Culture Through a Gender-Tinted Lens, Riv-Ellen Prell; Chapter 11 Gender, Colonialism, and the Representation of Middle Eastern Jews, Joëlle Bahloul; Chapter 12 Boys of the Wissenschaft, Robert J. Baird; Chapter 13 Toward a Postzionist Discourse, Laurence J. Silberstein; Chapter 14 Finding a Language for Memories of the Future, Ammiel Alcalay; Chapter 15 On Seams and Seamlessness, Rebecca Alpert; Chapter 16 Notes from the Second Generation, Beth S. Wenger; Chapter 17 Teaching Jewish Studies, Ellen M. Umansky; Chapter 18 Rabbinic Judaism and the Creation of Woman, Judith R. Baskin; Chapter 19 Justify My Love, Daniel Boyarin; Chapter 20 Medievals Are Not Us, Kalman P. Bland; Part Two Studies; Chapter 21 A Jewess, More and/or Less, Amy-Jill Levine; Chapter 22 A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy, Susan E. Shapiro; Chapter 23 Circumcision and Jewish Women’s Identity: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Failed Assimilation, Jay Geller; Chapter 24 Jesus as Theological Transvestite, Susannah Heschel; Chapter 25 Mengele, the Gynecologist, and Other Stories of Women’s Survival, Sara R. Horowitz; Chapter 26 (The Problem with) Embraces, Laura Levitt;

"...a valuable glimpse into the concerns of younger Jewish studies scholars, especially those interested in cultural studies. Many of the essays were intriguing..." -- Journal of American Ethnic History"...scholars assess how gender studies has affected their work and their lives." -- Forward Books, January 31,1997"... explode[s] the myth that scholars of Judaism continue to be oblivious to recent developments in gender studies." -- Hurricane Alice