Marriage and Metaphor - Constructions of Gender in Rabbinic Literature

Informationen zum Autor By Gail Labovitz Klappentext Beginning with the opening of Mishnah Kiddushin, 'A woman is acquired (in marriage)...by money, by document, or by sexual intercourse,' and using other examples of commercial language applied to marriage across the rabbinic canon, this work demonstrates that rabbis used information from the realm of property and commercial transactions to structure their understanding and reasoning about marriage and gender relations through a metaphor of women as ownable and marriage as a purchase or acquisition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. A Woman is Acquired: Metaphor and Marriage Chapter 3 Chapter 2. He Forbids Her to All: Polysemy and the Rabbinic Vocabulary of Betrothal Chapter 4 Chapter 3. My Wife I Called "My House": Elaborating the Metaphor of Women as Property Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Purchase of His Money: At the Intersection(s) of Gender and Servitude Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Go to Your Ketubah: Bridewealth, Dowry, and the Rabbinic Marriage Contract Chapter 7 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Gail Labovitz, Labovitz Gail
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780739179345
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7934-5
• No. of pages: 299
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Religion, RELIGION / Judaism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Religion and Gender, Social groups: religious groups and communities, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity