Marriage and Metaphor

Marriage and Metaphor

Marriage and Metaphor

Constructions of Gender in Rabbinic Literature

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9780739134252

Rowman & Littlefield Group

    Labovitz, Gail

    26-Oct-2009

    Hardback

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This highly original and important study demonstrates how language associated with acquisition underlies rabbinic Judaism s legal understanding of marriage. While carefully and convincingly analyzing the rabbinic metaphor of women as 'ownable,' Gail Labovitz also argues for essential transformations if women are to attain an equal status in the Judaism of the future .

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