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Finalist for the National Jewish Book AwardThe concepts of gender, love, and familyâas well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formationâhave become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and protocols.Sylvia Barack Fishman gathers the work of social historians and legal scholars who study transformations in the intimate realms of partnering and family construction among Jews. Following a substantive introduction, the volume casts a broad net. Chapters explore the current situation in both the United States and Israel, attending to what once were considered unconventional household arrangementsâincluding extended singlehood, cohabitating couples, single Jewish mothers, and GLBTQ familiesâalong with the legal ramifications and religious backlash. Together, these essays demonstrate how changes in the understanding of male and female roles and expectations over the past few decades have contributed to a social revolution with profoundâand paradoxicalâeffects on partnering, marriage, and family formation. This diverse anthologyâwith chapters focusing on demography, ethnography, and legal textsâwill interest scholars and students in Jewish studies, womenâs and gender studies, Israel studies, and American Jewish history, sociology, and culture.
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9781611688597 | Brandeis Univ, December 22, 2015, cover price $85.00
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9781611688603 | Brandeis Univ, December 22, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Finalist for the National Jewish Book AwardThe concepts of gender, love, and familyâas well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formationâhave become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and protocols.
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9781580230308 | Jewish Lights Pub, December 5, 2006, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Explores the religious and historical meaning of being Jewish, how Judaism contributes to contemporary social-environmental issues, and the many ways Jews have interacted with, defended the identity of, and honored non-Jews from biblical times to contemporary Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogues.
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9781580233675 | Jewish Lights Pub, August 1, 2008, cover price $18.99
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9781584652069 | Brandeis Univ, March 1, 2004, cover price $30.00
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9781584654605, titled "Double Or Nothing?: Jewish Families And Mixed Marriage" | Brandeis Univ, October 26, 2004, cover price $24.95
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9780791445457 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $55.50
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9780791445464 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $33.95
Product Description: Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunities that feminism has encouraged, feel a new sense of self and entitlement. Yet as feminist advances have opened possibilities, they also have called into question traditional roles...read more
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9780029103425 | Free Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Investigates, through interviews and background research, the changes that Jewish feminism has had on the Jewish faith as that feminism evolves to encompass modern concerns while retaining a balance with traditional values
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9780874517064 | Reprint edition (Brandeis Univ, March 1, 1995), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunities that feminism has encouraged, feel a new sense of self and entitlement.
Product Description: Twenty-one writers document the diverse representations and roles of Jewish women in American literature and culture.
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9780874515442 | Brandeis Univ, June 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Twenty-one writers document the diverse representations and roles of Jewish women in American literature and culture.
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9780874515831 | Brandeis Univ, May 1, 1992, cover price $40.00
Product Description: The Jewish community in America is currently undergoing profound changes, and American Jews are experiencing personal and communal realities that differ markedly from those of their parents and grandparents. To meet the needs of this population, a complex human service delivery system has evolved, with a vast array of agencies and organizations providing health care, housing, nutrition programs, counseling, child care, Jewish education, and many other services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780313250149 | Praeger Pub Text, October 1, 1991, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: The Jewish community in America is currently undergoing profound changes, and American Jews are experiencing personal and communal realities that differ markedly from those of their parents and grandparents.
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