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A Weave Of Women In The Context Of Contemporary Feminism And Traditional Judaism, Patricia J. Bush
A Weave Of Women In The Context Of Contemporary Feminism And Traditional Judaism, Patricia J. Bush
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In this thesis I discuss E.M. Broner’s novel A Weave of Women and show how she uses innovative rituals of status elevation and status reversal to focus her reader’s attention on the problems associated with the patriarchal structures of traditional Judaism, e.g., racism and religious chauvinism. In Part One I provide a description of contemporary feminist rituals to set Broner’s novel into context. Part Two is an exposition of the text of her novel comparing its feminist rites to various Jewish prayer books and descriptions of traditional Jewish rituals. In my conclusion I offer a critique of the novel. I …