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Love, marriage, and Jewish families : paradoxes of a social revolution / Sylvia Barack Fishman, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- HBI series on Jewish women.
- HBI Series on Jewish Women
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish families.
- Marriage--Religious aspects.
- Marriage.
- Families--Religious aspects.
- Families.
- Jewish way of life.
- Jews--Social conditions--21st century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Illustrates the complex and diverse ways that Jews in the United States and Israel are reshaping dating, marriage, and family life-with some surprising consequences
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution; PART I Love, Sexuality, and Personal Choice; 1 What's Love Got to Do with It? Marriage and Non-Marriage among Younger American Jews; 2 Caught in the Middle: Gender, Dating, and Singlehood among Religious Zionist Jews; 3 "We All Still Have to Potty Train": Same-Sex Couple Families and the American Jewish Community; 4 Gays and Lesbians in Israel: An Overview; PART II Family Transformations; 5 View from a Different Planet: Fertility Attitudes, Performances, and Policies among Jewish Israelis
- 6 Dreams and Realities: American Jewish Young Adults' Decisions about Fertility7 Jewish Single Mothers by Choice; 8 Judaism as the "Third Shift": Jewish Families Negotiating Work, Family, and Religious Lives; PART III Marriage and the Law; 9 Behold You Are [Fill in the Blank] to Me: Contemporary Legal and Ritual Approaches to Qiddushin; 10 Negotiating Divorce at the Intersection of Jewish and Civil Law in North America; 11 Women, Divorce, and Mamzer Status in the State of Israel; PART IV Backlash and Reaction; 12 The Secret of Jewish Masculinity: Contemporary Haredi Gender Ideology
- 13 Between Modesty and Beauty: Reinterpreting Female Piety in the Israeli Haredi CommunityNotes about the Art; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781611688610
- 1611688612
- OCLC:
- 921310676
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