Gender in Judaism and Islam : common lives, uncommon heritage / edited by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and Beth S. Wenger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh, 1967- editor.

Wenger, Beth S., 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Judaism.

Women in Islam.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Feminism.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Women and religion.

Physical Description:

x, 372 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Gender in Judaism and Islam brings together scholars working in the fields of Judaism and Islam to address a diverse range of topics, including gendered readings of texts, legal issues in marriage and divorce, ritual practices, and women's literary expressions and historical experiences, along with feminist influences within the Muslim and Jewish communities and issues affecting Jewish and Muslim women in contemporary society. Carefully crafted, including section introductions by the editors to highlight big picture insights offered by the contributors, the, volume focuses attention on the theoretical innovations that gender scholarship has brought to the study of Muslim and Jewish experiences. At a time when Judaism and Islam are often discussed as though they were inherently at odds, this book offers a much-needed reconsideration of the connections and commonalties between these two traditions. It offers new insights into each of these cultures and invites comparative perspectives that deepen our understanding of both Islam and Judaism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Comparative perspectives

1. Jewish and Muslim feminist theologies in dialogue: discourses of difference / Susannah Heschel

2. Jewish and Islamic legal traditions: diffusions of law / Amira Sonbol

Part II. Limits of biology: bodily purity and religiosity

3. Scholarly versus women's authority in the Islamic law of menstrual purity / Marion Katz

4. Gender duality and its subversions in rabbinic law / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

5. Gender and reproductive technologies in Shia Iran / Soraya Tremayne

Part III. Crimes of passion: formative texts and traditions

6. Not a man: Joseph and the character of masculinity in Judaism and Islam / Lori Lefkovitz

7. Dishonorable passions: law and virtue in Muslim communities / Catherine Warrick

8. Legislating the family: gender, Jewish law, and rabbinical courts in Mandate Palestine / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe

Part IV. Cultural depictions of Jewish and Muslim women

9. A Literary perspective: domestic violence, the woman question, and the Arab question in early Zionism / Andrea Siegel

10. An autobiographical perspective: schools, jails, and cemeteries in Shoshanna Levy's life story / Orit Bashkin

11. An artistic perspective: the women of Bahram Beizai's cinema / Hamid Dabashi

Afterword: Common ground, contested terrain / Joan W. Scott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1479801275

9781479853267

1479853267

OCLC:

876883232

Publisher Number:

99961095052