Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : Kallah's choice / Amy K. Milligan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milligan, Amy K., 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hair--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Hair.

Jewish women--Religious life.

Jewish women.

Jewish women--Conduct of life.

Modesty--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Modesty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study, Milligan uses an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach to consider the lived religious cultural experiences of Orthodox Jewish women living in a small community. Through an investigation of hair and head covering, Milligan explores the meaning of tradition in a contemporary context.

Contents:

A hairy subject: approaches to hair and hair covering

Covering Jewish women: the congregational context

Splitting hairs: the struggle for community definition in a small town Orthodox synagogue

Wearing many hats: the hair covering practices of the Orthodox Jewish women at Degel Israel Synagogue

Letting their hair down: Orthodox women at Degel Israel Synagogue who choose not to cover their hair

Flipping their wigs for Judaism: non-Orthodox women who choose to cover their heads

The long and short of it: a psychoreligious interpretation of hair covering.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-29806-9

1-4985-0554-6

0-7391-8366-4

OCLC:

892430222