ISBN:
0195051696
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 267 Seiten
Year of publication:
1988
Dissertation note:
Zugl.: Brown Univ., Diss.
DDC:
296.1/23/0088042
Keywords:
Mishnah Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Mishnah
;
Femmes dans la littérature rabbinique
;
Misjna
;
Vrouwen
;
Frau
;
Women in rabbinical literature
;
Frau
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Mishnah
;
Frau
Abstract:
Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in 2nd-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both the property and the peers of men, in some circumstances women were considered to possess no powers, rights, or duties in law, and in others were judged morally, practically, and intellectually fit to own property, conduct business, engage in lawsuits, and manage their own personal affairs. Wegner spells out in detail these variations in status, analyzes them, and isolates the factors that account for differential treatment of different classes of women in the private domain and for differential treatment of men and women in the public domain of mishnaic culture, relating her findings to recent developments in feminist analyses of the status of women in patriarchy.
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