| Description |
viii, 356 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Jewish literature and culture |
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Jewish literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Loss, presence, and Gabirol's desire: medieval Jewish philosophy and the possibility of a feminist ground / Sarah Pessin -- Thinking desire in Gersonides and Spinoza / Idit Dobbs-Weinstein -- Spinoza's ethics of the liberation of desire / Heidi Miriam Ravven -- The lonely woman of faith under late capitalism; or Jewish feminism in Marxist perspective / Jean Axelrad Cahan -- Dependency and vulnerability: Jewish and feminist existentialist constructions of the human / Leora Batnitzky -- From Eros to maternity: love, death, and "the feminine" in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas / Claire Elise Katz -- To know what is: feminism, metaphysics, and epistemology / T. M. Rudavsky --Into the woods: killer mothers, feminist ethics, and the problem of evil / Laurie Zoloth -- Judaism's body politic / Nancy K. Levene -- Feminism and the Rabbinic conception of justice / Suzanne Last Stone -- Reconstructing divine power: post-Holocaust Jewish theology, feminism, and process philosophy / Sandra B. Lubarsky -- Theological desire: feminism, philosophy, and exegetical Jewish thought / Randi Rashkover. |
| Note |
Proceedings of a conference held Feb. 25-26, 2001 at Arizona State University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Jewish philosophy -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory -- Israel -- Congresses.
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Sex role -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Sex role -- Israel -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0253343968 cloth |
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0253216737 paper |
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