Are there differences according to gender under Jewish law?
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Ronit Irshai [+]
Bar Ilan University and Shalom Hartman Institute
Ronit Irshai is Associate Professor in the gender studies program at Bar Ilan University and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
Description
The field of Jewish studies, and especially scholarship about Jewish law (halakhah), traditionally ignored gender. The emergence of gender studies has transformed this, challenging essentialist views of gender and encouraging critical, genealogical examination of how halakhic ideas about gender have evolved.