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Author Gross, Martine.

Title Gender, Families and Transmission in the Contemporary Jewish Context.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

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Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Biographies; Preface; Introduction; I- The Rearrangements of Gender Relations in Contemporary Jewish Worlds; Thinking about Current Jewish Dilemmas; Concealed Parental Involvement; The Transmission of Sexual Mores, Norms of Procreation and Gender Expectations through Pre-Marital Counselling; II- The Legal, Ethical and Religious Aspects of Changes connected to the Life Cycle; Reforming Jewish Divorce; Oocyte Donation, Surrogate Mother and the Gender Issue; Israel
III- The Transformations of the Family and the Couple, the Multiplication of Family Models and Reshuffling of NormsTransmitting the Nation; The History of Beit Haverim; Applying for Adoption; IV- Identities, Transmission and Memory as Stakes in the Continuity of Judaism; Being a Jew of Muslim Descent, a Problematic Identity; European Expectations, American Realities; Circumcision? Yes, but ...! The Study of "Bricolage" in Modern Judaism from a Psycho-Analytical Perspective; Postface; Lexique
Summary Bringing together social science researchers from France, Israel, the United States, Belgium and Switzerland, this book analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to the values of modernity and democracy. Systems of family and gender normativity have durably influenced the traditional Jewish universe, but the norms and the institutions that embody them are today shaky. Individualization - the essence of modernity - is at work in the Jewish world, as it is elsewhere, and new identities are emerging and questi.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject Judaism -- Philosophy.
Judaism -- Philosophy.
Judaism.
Judaism -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Jewish law -- Philosophy.
Jewish law -- Philosophy.
Society & social sciences.
Cultural studies.
Religion: general.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nizard, Sophie.
Scioldo-Zürcher, Yann.
Other Form: Print version: Gross, Martine. Gender, Families and Transmission in the Contemporary Jewish Context. [Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443851809 9781443851800 (OCoLC)989575659
ISBN 9781443892322 (electronic book)
1443892327 (electronic book)
9781443851800
1443851809