Feminist Theory Website

Judaism and Feminism

Judaism and Feminism

Individual Feminists:

Dianne Ashton

Laura Levitt

Internet Links

The Bridges Jewish Feminist Journal can be accessed here.

Judaism and
Feminism is also
available on
these country and U.S. ethnic group pages:

Israel

Israel

U.S.

U.S.

Jewish American

Jewish
American

      Bibliography

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      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.

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

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

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      Zuckerman, Francine, ed. Half the Kingdom: Seven Jewish Feminists. Vebicule Press, 1992.

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