Her Glory All Within

Rejecting and Transforming Orthodoxy in Israeli and American Jewish Women's Fiction

von Barbara Landress

210 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, and feminist theory, this body of Israeli women's writing is considered in comparative perspective with American feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s as well as with contemporary American Jewish women's writing that engages Orthodoxy.

• Reihe: Studies in Orthodox Judaism
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Religiöse Gemeinschaften
• ISBN: 9781618111715
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.12.2012
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Academic Studies Press