Mitzvah girls : bringing up the next generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn /
Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the n...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2009]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. To uncover how girls learn the practices of Hasidic Judaism, Fader looks beyond the synagogue to everyday talk in the context of homes, classrooms, and city streets. Hasidic women complicate stereotypes of nonliberal religious women by collapsing disti. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400830992 1400830990 9786612298318 6612298316 |