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Her Glory All within
Barbara Landress
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Description for Her Glory All within
Landress explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 472.
Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, and feminist theory, this body of Israeli women’s writing is considered in comparative perspective with American feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s as well as with contemporary American ... Read more
Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, and feminist theory, this body of Israeli women’s writing is considered in comparative perspective with American feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s as well as with contemporary American ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618111715
SKU
V9781618111715
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Ref
99-15
About Barbara Landress
Barbara Landress (JD Harvard University, PhD New York University) is the director of graduate affairs at the New York University School of Law.
Reviews for Her Glory All within
“Landress’ pioneering work establishes the roadmap, and provides the key, for women’s literary treatments of orthodoxy in the two largest centers of contemporary Jewish life. This is a must-read, not only for those interested in the fraught relationship between feminism and orthodoxy, but also for those curious about the tensions between national, religious, and gender identities in America and Israel, ... Read more