Expanding the Palace of Torah
Orthodoxy and Feminism

Distributed for Brandeis University Press
352 pages
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6 1/4 x 9 1/4
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Table of Contents

Contents
PART I: THE FIRST STAGE: ACKNOWLEDGING THE PROBLEM • Feminism and the Halakhic Tradition • Sources of Discontent and the Conservative REsponse • PART II: THE SECOND STATE: WORKING WITHIN THE SYSTEM • Exploring Halakhic Malleability and Its Limits • The Meta-Halakhic Solutions of Modern Orthodoxy • Does Positivism Work? • PART III: THE THIRD STAGE: REVAMPING THE SYSTEM • Sociological and Historical Revisionism • Evaluating Revisionism • Halakhic Poractivism • PART IV: BEYOND THE THIRD STAGE: EXPANDING THE PALACE OF TORAH • Halakha Contextualized: Nonfoundationalism and the Role of Interpretive Traditions • The Word of God Contextualized: Successive Hearings and the Decree of History • Some Theological Remarks for the More Philosophically Inclined • PART V: EPILOGUE • Visions for the Future
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