While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on
the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition),
Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to 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 dilemma of
infertility, and women among women and as individuals, she shows
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.
Recent feminist scholarship has illuminated many aspects of the
significance of gender in biblical and halakhic texts but there has
been little previous study of how aggadic literature portrays
females and the feminine. Such representations, Baskin argues,
often offer a more nuanced and complex view of women and their
actual lives than the rigorous proscriptions of legal discourse.
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