Jews and Feminism (Creating the North American Landscape (Paperback))
By Laura Levitt.
Description
Donated by the Jewish Women's Center of Pittsburgh. By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for Jewish women. Exploring the immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe for America, as well as their desire to make this country...
ISBN(s)
0415914450, 9780415914451
