formations of the feminine in Rabbinic literature
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Baskin, Judith R.
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3981 - B
- Thesaurus
- jodendom, heilige teksten, vrouwbeelden, historisch, feminisme
- Description
- Analysis of the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature. Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives of creation and justifications of female disadvantages, as well as aggadic understandings of the ideal wife, the issue of infertility, and women among women and as individuals, she argues that rabbinic Judaism, a tradition formed by men for a male community, deeply valued the essential contributions of wives and mothers while also consciously constructing women as other and lesser than men.