Jews and Feminism

Levitt, Laura

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“…Religious singles also merit research attention and should be studied on their own (Farrell, 2011; Levitt, 2013; Mir‐Hosseini, 2006). Evidence suggests that the less power religion has in society or greater secularization, the more people will choose not to get married or have children (Lesthaeghe & Neidert, 2006; Wang & Parker, 2014).…”

Section: Singlehood As a Social Category And Intersectional Subcatego...mentioning

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“…Similarly, religious Muslims (Mir‐Hosseini, 2006) and Jews (Levitt, 2013) are demanding changes to the role of women in their communities, allowing women to delay marriage or choose divorce if unsatisfied with their partners. Even in highly conservative Hindu (Sharma, 2015) and ultra‐Orthodox Jewish communities (Zion‐Waldoks, 2015), in which marriage is traditionally arranged by the family and takes place at a young age, the hegemony is being challenged, allowing a more liberal approach for premarital introduction between young men and women.…”

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Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood

Kislev

Marsh

2023

J of Family Theo & Revie

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This article underscores the importance of recognizing the diversity and intricacy of singlehood and transcending a simplistic view of singles as a monolithic group. By adopting an intersectional approach, researchers can obtain a deeper understanding of singles' experiences and identify their unique needs. Moreover, this understanding has profound implications for social justice endeavors, as singles may encounter compounded discrimination and necessitate deliberate communities and social policies that support them. Specifically, we advance here a four‐fold argument. First, singlehood should not only be viewed as a demographic characteristic but also as a chosen status and identity. In turn, researchers must acknowledge divisions such as race, gender, class, and sexuality within this overarching category. Third, intersectionality must be analyzed in its compound and intricate effects, as singlehood intertwines with other categories in distinct ways. Fourth, this carries far‐reaching implications, and intersectionality can serve as a critical praxis that informs social justice initiatives.

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Section: Singlehood As a Social Category And Intersectional Subcatego...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood

Kislev

Marsh

2023

J of Family Theo & Revie

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“…The I in My Text 99 Summer 2019 home." 22 I went on to explain that the book "also demonstrates how theory can help explain in nuanced and powerful ways the complexities of our lives. It shows how theory can enable us to explore the seams in the construction of our identities within the constraints of various social, cultural, and political configurations of power and desire."…”

Section: Jews and Feminism Impermanence And Intersectionsmentioning

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“…As I wrote so long ago, "although nothing is permanent, traces of the past remain with us as part of a shifting vision." 26 In claiming all of these partial commitments and affiliations, we come together with others, people not like us, and figure out how to work together.…”

Section: Jews and Feminism Impermanence And Intersectionsmentioning

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The I in My Text: Revisiting Critical Feminist Identity Politics, Refusing the Allures of Purity

Levitt¹

2019

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In this essay, I return to the moves to the first person I made in Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (Routledge, 1997) in orderto consider what this approach has to offer us in the present. By insisting on the kinds of complexity that informed this feminist, decidedly impure enactment of critical identification, I make clear that identity is not about purity. Instead, I call attention to the hybrid, messy, and even contradictory lived realities so many of us inhabit. By returning to my own early engagement with placing myself in my writing as a scholar of Jewish studies, I consider the implications of reanimating these practices in the present. In other words, by interrogating what it meant in the 1990s to claim a Jewish feminist position, I consider anew how we position ourselves in our work in the present. Along the way, I challenge alt-right claims to "identity politics" as well as certain forms of liberal pluralism. By revisiting what it meant to write in the first person and to embody this feminist critical scholarly legacy, I hope to revive a strand of that feminist genealogy to imagine a more capacious future for embodied Jewish feminist scholarship.

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Jews and Feminism

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Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood

Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood

The I in My Text: Revisiting Critical Feminist Identity Politics, Refusing the Allures of Purity

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