Keeping women in their digital place : the maintenance of Jewish gender norms online /

Keeping women in their digital place : the maintenance of Jewish gender norms online /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tsuria, Ruth, author.
Imprint:	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Description:	x, 190 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jewish women -- Conduct of life. Gender identity -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Digital media -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Internet -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13497374

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ISBN:	9780271097183 0271097183
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Examines the web of tensions found in online Jewish spaces, including websites, forums, and social media debates, and explores how Orthodox Jewish women negotiate gender and sexual norms by both pushing the boundaries of accepted norms and enforcing traditional behaviors"--

Table of Contents:

Exploring digital Judaism as a discourse
Getting married
Interlude 1 : window installation
technological affordances
Being intimate
Interlude 2 : looking through windows
the power of everybody
Becoming a mother
Interlude 3 : breaking mirrors
using the internet for resistance
Dealing with feminism.