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Author:   Karen E. H. Skinazi
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780813596013

ISBN 10:   0813596017
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   07 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents                                                      An Unorthodox Guide to Orthodox Judaism                                     A Woman of Valor (Proverbs 31:10-31)                             Introduction: She Puts Her Hand to the Distaff                         Chapter 1: A G-d-fearing Woman, She Should Be Praised: Exposure, Dialogue, and Remedy in “Off-the-Derech” Narratives                             Chapter 2: A Woman of Valor Who Can Find: Crime Fiction as Primers of Orthodoxy         Chapter 3: She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom: This Bridge Called My Voice     Chapter 4: She Senses that Her Enterprise is Good: Representations of Orthodox Businesswomen Chapter 5: She Will Be Praised at the Gates by her Very Own Deeds: The Orthodox Artist and  The Fruit of Her Hands             Coda: Many Daughters Have Attained Valor     Acknowledgements                                        Bibliography    

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Skinazi delivers a richly insightful, sensitive, and wide-ranging exploration of religious identity, women's agency, and autonomy, providing genuinely illuminating perspectives on both the individual and the collective. --Ranen Omer-Sherman JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville This fascinating and engaging book is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish literature and culture. --Wendy Zierler Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, Hebrew Union College

Women of Valor is eye-opening, energetic and intellectually adventurous. Drawing on a wide range of written, pictorial and cinematic sources, it brings to life a hitherto forgotten group of women.

Skinazi's research is impressive. She draws on a dizzying array of primary sources....While the prose moves apace, Skinazi skilfully balances neat plot summaries and rich character descriptions with often impassioned and witty commentary. Thus, while thoughtful, this book is also entertaining. -- Journal of Contemporary Religion What Skinazi has created with this well-researched monograph is a conversation--one that Orthodox Jewish women have started with their creative works that seek to expose issues of concern as they work toward solutions. This is the first of many conversations scholars should have about representations of and by Orthodox Jewish women, turning a contemporary eye on their subject and with empathy for these women and their liberation in a creative space separate from men. -- Jewish Film and New Media At the heart of growing fundamentalism in the charedi sector lies the fate of women. Rabbis have banned women from driving, enforced modesty patrols and gender segregation on buses, and omitted women's faces from newspapers and magazines. Charedi women, however, have not all been sitting in silent despair, they've been pushing back. Karen Skinazi highlights the work that charedi women are doing today. -- Jewish Renaissance Finding the Women I Drew, by Alexandra Gluckman-- Columbia Daily Spectator Jew in the City interview with Karen E.H. Skinazi-- Jew in the City Orthodox Jewish women 'erased' by popular culture, research finds -- Phys.org Skinazi serves as a knowledgeable guide for both the general reader and the scholar interested in contemporary cultural production that reflects the diversity and complexity of Orthodox women's lives. -- Jewish Book Council Skinazi's book is a thorough and engaging examination of all the ways in which Orthodox women have been imagined in literature and American popular culture of the past few decades. In it, we see not just the complexity of the figure of the Orthodox woman, but also the varied ways people from within and outside the community have represented her. Sometimes, these depictions say more about those outside the community than about those within it. -- Jewish Journal The Power Beneath That Sheitel, by Karen E.H. Skinazi-- Lilith Today's narratives by and about Orthodox women are an engaging, at times provocative, counterargument to the mainstream media's picture of the Gitl of the twenty-first century. They are in constant battle with that picture, often manage to reinforce it, and have not emerged as the dominant image - or images. -- Sir Read A Lot Skinazi delivers a richly insightful, sensitive, and wide-ranging exploration of religious identity, women's agency, and autonomy, providing genuinely illuminating perspectives on both the individual and the collective. --Ranen Omer-Sherman JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville This fascinating and engaging book is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish literature and culture. --Wendy Zierler Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, Hebrew Union College This wonderfully wise, sensitive and beautifully written study is a book I've been waiting for. Skinazi's nuanced rendering of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at long last dodge their popular and academic stereotypes to appear as the agents and storytellers of their own lives. --Devorah Baum author of Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) Women of Valor is eye-opening, energetic and intellectually adventurous. Drawing on a wide range of written, pictorial and cinematic sources, it brings to life a hitherto forgotten group of women. --Bryan Cheyette author of Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History Skinazi's analysis demonstrates how attention to the particularities of Orthodox Jewish womanhood is crucial for the analysis of their literature. Her invitation for an analytic recalibration in Jewish American literature is timely and generative. -- MELUS A Window into Hasidic Life, excerpted from Women of Valor by Karen E.H. Skinazi https: //www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/a-window-into-hasidic-life-- Canadian Jewish News Women of Valor makes an important contribution to the study of Orthodox women, demonstrating the diversity of experiences and voices within that population, exposing subcultures within Orthodoxy that often go unnoticed, and complicating our understanding of how these 'traditional' communities relate to modernity. -- American Jewish History Skinazi's approach to the different texts and ideas she introduces in Women of Valor is nuanced and complex....Women of Valor provides a breath of fresh air, for popular audiences as well as for orthodox audiences interested in the voices of orthodox Jewish women within their culture, or on their way out. -- Journal of American Studies

Skinazi's work is a valuable contribution to those interested in women's studies, religious studies, and literature. -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Skinazi's research is impressive. She draws on a dizzying array of primary sources....While the prose moves apace, Skinazi skilfully balances neat plot summaries and rich character descriptions with often impassioned and witty commentary. Thus, while thoughtful, this book is also entertaining. -- Journal of Contemporary Religion What Skinazi has created with this well-researched monograph is a conversation--one that Orthodox Jewish women have started with their creative works that seek to expose issues of concern as they work toward solutions. This is the first of many conversations scholars should have about representations of and by Orthodox Jewish women, turning a contemporary eye on their subject and with empathy for these women and their liberation in a creative space separate from men. -- Jewish Film and New Media At the heart of growing fundamentalism in the charedi sector lies the fate of women. Rabbis have banned women from driving, enforced modesty patrols and gender segregation on buses, and omitted women's faces from newspapers and magazines. Charedi women, however, have not all been sitting in silent despair, they've been pushing back. Karen Skinazi highlights the work that charedi women are doing today. -- Jewish Renaissance Finding the Women I Drew, by Alexandra Gluckman-- Columbia Daily Spectator Jew in the City interview with Karen E.H. Skinazi-- Jew in the City Orthodox Jewish women 'erased' by popular culture, research finds -- Phys.org Skinazi serves as a knowledgeable guide for both the general reader and the scholar interested in contemporary cultural production that reflects the diversity and complexity of Orthodox women's lives. -- Jewish Book Council Skinazi's book is a thorough and engaging examination of all the ways in which Orthodox women have been imagined in literature and American popular culture of the past few decades. In it, we see not just the complexity of the figure of the Orthodox woman, but also the varied ways people from within and outside the community have represented her. Sometimes, these depictions say more about those outside the community than about those within it. -- Jewish Journal The Power Beneath That Sheitel, by Karen E.H. Skinazi-- Lilith Today's narratives by and about Orthodox women are an engaging, at times provocative, counterargument to the mainstream media's picture of the Gitl of the twenty-first century. They are in constant battle with that picture, often manage to reinforce it, and have not emerged as the dominant image - or images. -- Sir Read A Lot Skinazi delivers a richly insightful, sensitive, and wide-ranging exploration of religious identity, women's agency, and autonomy, providing genuinely illuminating perspectives on both the individual and the collective. --Ranen Omer-Sherman JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville This fascinating and engaging book is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish literature and culture. --Wendy Zierler Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, Hebrew Union College This wonderfully wise, sensitive and beautifully written study is a book I've been waiting for. Skinazi's nuanced rendering of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at long last dodge their popular and academic stereotypes to appear as the agents and storytellers of their own lives. --Devorah Baum author of Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) Skinazi's approach to the different texts and ideas she introduces in Women of Valor is nuanced and complex....Women of Valor provides a breath of fresh air, for popular audiences as well as for orthodox audiences interested in the voices of orthodox Jewish women within their culture, or on their way out. -- Journal of American Studies Women of Valor makes an important contribution to the study of Orthodox women, demonstrating the diversity of experiences and voices within that population, exposing subcultures within Orthodoxy that often go unnoticed, and complicating our understanding of how these 'traditional' communities relate to modernity. -- American Jewish History A Window into Hasidic Life, excerpted from Women of Valor by Karen E.H. Skinazi https: //www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/a-window-into-hasidic-life-- Canadian Jewish News Skinazi's analysis demonstrates how attention to the particularities of Orthodox Jewish womanhood is crucial for the analysis of their literature. Her invitation for an analytic recalibration in Jewish American literature is timely and generative. -- MELUS Women of Valor is eye-opening, energetic and intellectually adventurous. Drawing on a wide range of written, pictorial and cinematic sources, it brings to life a hitherto forgotten group of women. --Bryan Cheyette author of Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History

At the heart of growing fundamentalism in the charedi sector lies the fate of women. Rabbis have banned women from driving, enforced modesty patrols and gender segregation on buses, and omitted women's faces from newspapers and magazines. Charedi women, however, have not all been sitting in silent despair, they've been pushing back. Karen Skinazi highlights the work that charedi women are doing today. --Bryan Cheyette Jewish Renaissance Finding the Women I Drew, by Alexandra Gluckman--Bryan Cheyette Columbia Daily Spectator Jew in the City interview with Karen E.H. Skinazi--Bryan Cheyette Jew in the City Orthodox Jewish women 'erased' by popular culture, research finds --Bryan Cheyette Phys.org Skinazi delivers a richly insightful, sensitive, and wide-ranging exploration of religious identity, women's agency, and autonomy, providing genuinely illuminating perspectives on both the individual and the collective. --Ranen Omer-Sherman JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville Skinazi serves as a knowledgeable guide for both the general reader and the scholar interested in contemporary cultural production that reflects the diversity and complexity of Orthodox women's lives. --Bryan Cheyette Jewish Book Council The Power Beneath That Sheitel, by Karen E.H. Skinazi--Bryan Cheyette Lilith This fascinating and engaging book is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish literature and culture. --Wendy Zierler Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, Hebrew Union College This wonderfully wise, sensitive and beautifully written study is a book I've been waiting for. Skinazi's nuanced rendering of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at long last dodge their popular and academic stereotypes to appear as the agents and storytellers of their own lives. --Devorah Baum author of Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) Today's narratives by and about Orthodox women are an engaging, at times provocative, counterargument to the mainstream media's picture of the Gitl of the twenty-first century. They are in constant battle with that picture, often manage to reinforce it, and have not emerged as the dominant image - or images. --Bryan Cheyette Sir Read A Lot Skinazi's analysis demonstrates how attention to the particularities of Orthodox Jewish womanhood is crucial for the analysis of their literature. Her invitation for an analytic recalibration in Jewish American literature is timely and generative. --Bryan Cheyette MELUS A Window into Hasidic Life, excerpted from Women of Valor by Karen E.H. Skinazi https: //www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/a-window-into-hasidic-life--Bryan Cheyette Canadian Jewish News Women of Valor is eye-opening, energetic and intellectually adventurous. Drawing on a wide range of written, pictorial and cinematic sources, it brings to life a hitherto forgotten group of women. --Bryan Cheyette author of Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History Women of Valor makes an important contribution to the study of Orthodox women, demonstrating the diversity of experiences and voices within that population, exposing subcultures within Orthodoxy that often go unnoticed, and complicating our understanding of how these 'traditional' communities relate to modernity. --Bryan Cheyette American Jewish History

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KAREN E. H. SKINAZI is a senior lecturer and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. She is a scholar of multiethnic, American, and women’s literature and published a critical edition of Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model.

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