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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
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