JWST 237 - Women in Jewish Society, Antiquity to Modernity

3 SS, CD, WR

First Semester. Topics in Jewish women’s history from antiquity to the 20th century, examining “normative” constructions of women’s roles, idealized constructions of Jewish maleness and femaleness, and realities of gendered behavior. Using rabbinic and communal materials, women’s letters, memoirs and rituals, explores family and power relations between women and men; women’s economic functions and power; women, men, and religion; transformation of roles in modernity; gendered responses to persecution; feminism. Identical to HIST 237.

Prerequisites & Notes
Cross referenced with HIST 237.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Ms. Magnus

Credits: 3 hours