In the last three decades, hundreds of books and essays have been
published on women, gender, and Jewish Studies. This burgeoning
scholarship has not been adequately theorized, contextualized, or
historicized. This book argues that Jewish feminist studies is
currently constrained by multiple frames of reference that require
re-examination, a self-critical awareness, and a serious reflective
inquiry into the models, paradigms, and assumptions that inform,
shape, and define this area of academic interest. This book is the
first critical analysis of Jewish feminist scholarship, tracing it
from its tentative beginnings in the late 1970s to contemporary
academic articulations of its disciplinary projects. It focuses on
the assumptions, evasions, omissions, inconsistencies, and gaps in
this scholarship, and notably the absence of debate, contestation,
and interrogation of authoritative articulations of its presumed
goals, investments, and priorities. The book teases out implicit
thinking about mapping, direction, and orientation from
introductions to leading anthologies and engages critically with
the few explicitly theoretical works on Jewish feminist studies,
contesting ideas that have become hegemonic in some areas, and
interrogating the limitations these theories impose on future
trajectories in Jewish feminist studies. Each chapter outlines the
theoretical assumptions that inform salient publications in the
field, providing a close reading of scholarly texts that justify
certain practices. The book is divided into four chapters, each of
which focuses on a different frame of reference. It outlines the
way in which the various frames that have so far been imposed on
Jewish feminism, the ethnocentric, liberal, personal, masculinist,
and essentialist, have arrested its theoretical elaboration and
articulation. The book includes both interdisciplinary anthologies
on gender and Jewish identity and disciplinary publications in
history, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and Holocaust
studies.
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