A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Plaskow examines Jewish memory, Torah, language, and community through women's exclusion and participation, arguing for feminist reconstruction.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It helps readers see how women have experienced, interpreted, contested, and shaped religious life in a specific setting.
Good starting place if…
You want a major Jewish feminist argument about who names tradition and belongs within it.
Know before you begin…
A constructive and contested theological work, not a comprehensive account of Jewish women or all branches of Judaism.