Midrashic women
formations of the feminine in rabbinic literature
by Judith Reesa Baskin
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"While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature.
Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives of creation, and justifications of female disadvantages, as well as aggadic understandings of the ideal wife, the dilemma of infertility, and women among women and as individuals, Baskin shows that rabbinic Judaism, a tradition formed by men for a male community, deeply valued the essential contributions of wives and mothers while also consciously constructing women as other and lesser than men."--BOOK JACKET.
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Midrashic women: formations of the feminine in rabbinic literature
2002, University Press of New England
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1584651776 9781584651772
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-212) and indexes.
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