Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1611688604 ISBN 13: 9781611688603

Casa editrice: Brandeis Univ, 2016

Riassunto

The concepts of gender, love, and family—as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation—have 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 arrangements—including extended singlehood, cohabitating couples, single Jewish mothers, and GLBTQ families—along 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 profound—and paradoxical—effects on partnering, marriage, and family formation. This diverse anthology—with chapters focusing on demography, ethnography, and legal texts—will interest scholars and students in Jewish studies, women’s and gender studies, Israel studies, and American Jewish history, sociology, and culture.

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L'autore:

SYLVIA BARACK FISHMAN is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, and co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. The author of eight books and numerous articles on the changing Jewish family, intermarriage, transformations in gender roles, Jewish education, and American Jewish sociology, literature, and culture, Fishman received the 2014 Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.

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• Editore: Brandeis Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1611688604
• ISBN 13: 9781611688603
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340
• Redattore: Fishman Sylvia Barack