The Jewish Woman New Perspectives Author:Elizabeth Koltun An anthology of essays dealing with Jewish women of the past, the conflicts experienced by modern Jewish feminists, and aspects of the woman's life within the Jewish community. — Introduction / Martha Ackelsberg -- — Spiritual quest -- — The Jewish feminist : conflict in identities / Judith Plaskow -- — Women's liberation and the liberation ... more »of god : an essay in story theology / Carol Christ --
The life cycle and new rituals --
On the birth of a daughter / Daniel I. Leifer and Myra Leifer --
Women and Jewish education : a new look at Bat Mitzvah / Cherie Koller-Fox --
Single and Jewish : toward a new definition of completeness / Laura Geller and Elizabeth Koltun --
On writing new ketubot / Daniel I. Leifer --
Tumah and taharah : ends and beginnings / Rachel Adler --
Portnoy's mother's complaint : depression in middle-aged women / Pauline Bart --
The month is for you : observing Rosh Hodesh as a woman's holiday / Arlene Agus --
Jewish women's Haggadah / Aviva Cantor Zuckoff --
Women in Jewish law --
The other half : women in the Jewish tradition / Paula Hyman --
The status of women in Halakhic Judaism / Saul Berman --
A modest beginning / Esther Ticktin --
Models from our past --
Bais Yaakov : a historical model for Jewish feminists / Deborah Weissman --
Bertha Pappenheim : founder of German-Jewish feminism / Marion Kaplan --
Henrietta Szold -liberated woman / Susan Dworkin --
Stages / Rachel Janait --
Jewish women in modern society --
Judaism and feminism / Blu Greenberg --
The changing role of women in Jewish communal affairs : a look into the UJA / Stephen M. Cohen, Susan Dessel, Michael Pelavin --
Flight from feminism : the case of the Israeli woman / Carol N. Clapsaddle --
Women in Jewish literature --
Depatriarchalizing in Biblical interpretation / Phyllis Trible --
The restoration of Vashti / Mary Gendler --
Aggadic approaches to Biblical women / Linda Kuzmack --
Women as sources of Torah in the rabbinic tradition / Anne Goldfeld --
Mothers and daughters in American Jewish literature : the rotted cord / Sonya Michel« less