Amy K. Milligan

Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women

Kallah's Choice

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study, Milligan uses an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach to consider the lived religious cultural experiences of Orthodox Jewish women living in a small community. Through an investigation of hair and head covering, Milligan explores the meaning of tradition in a contemporary context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780739183656
• ISBN-10: 0739183656
• Artikelnr.: 41312205

Autorenporträt

Amy K. Milligan teaches women and gender studies at Elizabethtown College. Her research concentrates on the overlap of gender and sexuality with religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Chapter 1: A Hairy Subject: Approaches to Hair and Hair Covering
Chapter 2: Covering Jewish Women: The Congregational Context Chapter 3:
Splitting Hairs: The Struggle for Community Definition in a Small Town
Orthodox Synagogue Chapter 4: Wearing Many Hats: The Hair Covering
Practices of the Orthodox Jewish Women at Degel Israel Synagogue Chapter 5:
Letting Their Hair Down: Orthodox Women at Degel Israel Synagogue Who
Choose Not to Cover Their Hair Chapter 6: Flipping Their Wigs for Judaism:
Non-Orthodox Women Who Choose to Cover Their Heads Chapter 7: The Long and
Short of It: A Psychoreligious Interpretation of Hair Covering Epilogue