Gender in Judaism and Islam: common lives, uncommon heritage

Introduction / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and Beth S. Wenger

Part I. Comparative perspectives. Jewish and Muslim feminist theologies in dialogue : discourses of difference / Susannah Heschel ; Jewish and Islamic legal traditions : diffusions of law / Amira Sonbol

Part II. Limits of biology : bodily purity and religiosity. Scholarly versus women's authority in the Islamic law of menstrual purity / Marion Katz ; Gender duality and its subversions in rabbinic law / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert ; Gender and reproductive technologies in Shia Iran / Soraya Tremayne

Part III. Crimes of passion : formative texts and traditions. Not a man : Joseph and the character of masculinity in Judaism and Islam / Lori Lefkovitz ; Dishonorable passions : law and virtue in Muslim communities / Catherine Warrick ; Legislating the family : gender, Jewish law, and rabbinical courts in Mandate Palestine / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe

Part IV. Cultural depictions of Jewish and Muslim women. A literary perspective : domestic violence, the "woman question", and the "Arab question" in early Zionism / Andrea Siegel ; An autobiographical perspective : schools, jails, and cemeteries in Shoshanna Levy's life story / Orit Bashkin ; An artistic perspective : the women of Bahram Beizai's cinema / Hamid Dabashi

Afterword: Common ground, contested terrain / Joan W. Scott

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