| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 340 pages) |
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HBI series on Jewish women |
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HBI series on Jewish women.
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| Contents |
Cover; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution; PART I Love, Sexuality, and Personal Choice; 1 What's Love Got to Do with It? Marriage and Non-Marriage among Younger American Jews; 2 Caught in the Middle: Gender, Dating, and Singlehood among Religious Zionist Jews; 3 "We All Still Have to Potty Train": Same-Sex Couple Families and the American Jewish Community; 4 Gays and Lesbians in Israel: An Overview; PART II Family Transformations; 5 View from a Different Planet: Fertility Attitudes, Performances, and Policies among Jewish Israelis |
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6 Dreams and Realities: American Jewish Young Adults' Decisions about Fertility7 Jewish Single Mothers by Choice; 8 Judaism as the "Third Shift": Jewish Families Negotiating Work, Family, and Religious Lives; PART III Marriage and the Law; 9 Behold You Are [Fill in the Blank] to Me: Contemporary Legal and Ritual Approaches to Qiddushin; 10 Negotiating Divorce at the Intersection of Jewish and Civil Law in North America; 11 Women, Divorce, and Mamzer Status in the State of Israel; PART IV Backlash and Reaction; 12 The Secret of Jewish Masculinity: Contemporary Haredi Gender Ideology |
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13 Between Modesty and Beauty: Reinterpreting Female Piety in the Israeli Haredi CommunityNotes about the Art; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Illustrates the complex and diverse ways that Jews in the United States and Israel are reshaping dating, marriage, and family life-with some surprising consequences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource (viewed on December 01, 2015) |
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Jewish families.
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Marriage -- Religious aspects.
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Families -- Religious aspects.
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Jewish way of life.
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Jews -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Jews -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
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Love.
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Marriage.
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Group identity.
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Social change.
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Love
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Marriage
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Social Identification
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Jews
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Social Change
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love (emotion)
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group identity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Families -- Religious aspects
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Jewish families
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Jewish way of life
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Jews -- Social conditions
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Jews -- Social life and customs
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Marriage -- Religious aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fishman, Sylvia Barack, 1942- editor.
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| LC no. |
2015036167 |
| ISBN |
9781611688610 |
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1611688612 |
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1611688604 |
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9781611688603 |
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1611688590 |
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9781611688597 |
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