Judaism and Feminism

Individual Feminists:

Dianne Ashton

Laura Levitt

Internet Links

The Bridges Jewish Feminist Journal can be accessed here.

You can reach the online Jewish Feminist Resources site here.

Judaism and

Feminism is also

available on

these country and U.S. ethnic group pages:

Bibliography

Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics. Jewish Pub. Society, 1997.

Ashton, Dianne and Ellen M. Umansky, ed. Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality: A Sourcebook. Beacon Press, 1992.

Bach, Alice, ed. Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader. Routledge, 1998.

Bar-Ilan, Meir. Some Jewish Women in Antiquity. Scholars Press, 1998. [To read chapter summaries, click here.]

Beal, Timothy K. The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation and Esther. NY: Routledge, 1997.

Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament. Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

Brenner, Athalya. The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and 'Sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible. Brill Academic Pub., 1997.

Buchman, Christina and Celina Spiegel, ed. Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible. 1994.

Dopps-Allsopps, F.W. Weep O Daughter of Zion. 1993.

Frankel, Ellen. The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah. Harper San Francisco, 1997.

Galambush, Julie. Jerusalem in the Book of Ezekiel: The City as Yahweh's Wife. Scholars Press, 1992.

Gerstenberger, Erhard S. Yahweh -- The Patriarch: Ancient Images of God and Feminist Theology. Fortress Press, 1996.

Gottlieb, Lynn.She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism. Harper San Francisco, 1995.

Hauptman, Judith. Reading the Talmud: A Woman's Approach.

Ilan, Tal. "Patriarchy, the Land of Israel and the Legal Position of Women in Rabbinic Literature." NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues 1 (1998).

Kates, Judith A. and Gail T. Reimer, ed. Reading Ruth: Contemporary Jewish Women Reclaim a Sacred Story. Ballantine Books, 1994.

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Levitt, Laura. Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home. Routledge, 1997.

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Levitt, Laura and Miriam Peskowitz, ed. Judaism Since Gender. Routledge, 1997.

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Plaskow, Judith. Standing Again at the Sinai: Judism from the Feminist Perspective. Harper San Francisco, 1991.

Rudavsky, T.M., ed. Gender and Judaism: The Transformation of Tradition. Cassell Academic, 1995.

Rutledge, David. Reading Marginally: Feminism, Deconstruction and the Bible. Brill Academic Pub., 1996.

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