Abstract:Based on fieldwork observations and interviews, this article offers both a theoretical and methodological reflection on the study of the maternity among Hasidic Jewish women at the crossroads of two approaches. The first considers motherhood from a feminist phenomenological perspective, emphasizing the lived and embodied dimension of the feminine; following Butler and queer theorists, this translates into a vision of motherhood and more broadly of gender, as doing. The second propose to consider Jewishness rat… Show more
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