Jews and Gender

Leonard J. Greenspoon is a professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of theology, and holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University. He is the editor of the annual Studies in Jewish Civilization series published by Purdue University Press.

• AcknowledgmentsEditor's IntroductionContributorsThe Heroines of Everyday Life: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, by Cynthia Shafer-ElliottAn Ironic/Satirical, Subversively Proto-Feminist Reading of the Daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36, by Jay CaballeroConstructing Gender Bride by Bride: Rabbinic Ideas of Citizenship in Light of Gender, by Susan MarksGendering Emotion in Genesis Rabbah, by Joel GereboffThe Legalization of Modesty: Sources and Significance, by Emmanuel BlochMarriage, Motherhood, and the Matriarchs in the Zohar, by Margaret Gurewitz SmithChasidism and Gender through a New Reading of a Feminist Story of R. Nachman of Breslov, by Roni Bar LevJewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman's Story, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides"He Wanted to Make Them into Educated, Enlightened People": Jewish Immigrants, Acculturation, and Gender Stereotypesin A. D. Oguz's Di fraydenker, by Matthew H. BrittinghamLocking Up Al Levy: Jewish Masculinity in the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Jeannette GabrielGolda Meir, Sarojini Naidu, and the Rise of Female Political Leaders in British India and British Mandate Palestine, by Joseph R. HodesJewish Feminism as a Model for Judaism as a Choice, by Hannah KehatThe Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors: From Elaine May to Claudia Weill, by Lawrence Baron"When You're a Funny Girl": Confirming and Complicating Accepted Cultural Images of Jewish Femininity in the Films of Barbra Streisand, by Samantha Pickette"Schlemiel Feminism": Jewish Humor and Activism on Broad City, by David GillotaPoskot in the Palace of Torah: A Preliminary Study of Orthodox Feminism and Halachic Process, by Gail Labovitz