Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home

by Laura Levitt

Book Overview

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for Jewish women.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415914450
• ISBN13: 9780415914451
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"