This reading was a bit complex for me to clearly comprehend, so I decided to take notes throughout and then break them down to summarize my findings in an effort to better understand the main focuses that the author was making about women’s studies and Jewish women’s studies. Fuchs offers an examination of the relationship between […]
Category: Gender & Sexuality in Judaism
Proverbs 31:26-30
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” […]
Peskowitz, “What’s in a Name?”
This reading was short yet challenging. Normally, I find longer readings to be more complex; however, I have a feeling that the overall intricacy of this text can be attributed to it not being very recently published. In the first page, I found the claims challenging feminist studies in religion very interesting. Due to its […]
