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The emergence not only of a movement for equality of women and men in existing Jewish life but more deeply for their equality in shaping what Judaism is to become, including the insights of feminist Judaism.
The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives
Elisabeth Koltun, ed.
Schocken, 1975
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On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader
Susannah Heschel, ed.
Schocken, 1985
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Standing Again at Sinai
Judith Plaskow
HarperSanFrancisco, 1990
Reexamines Judaism root-and-branch from a feminist perspective: assuming the full inclusion of women and of their life-experience, how might Judaism look -- in the three classic categories of God, Torah, and Israel?
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A Weave of Women
Esther M. Broner
Indiana University Press, 1989
In the form of a novel, an early call for feminist liturgical transformation.
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The Telling
Esther M. Broner
Harper San Francisco, 1993
A feminist Haggadah for Pesach and the story of the "Seder sisters" who each year recreate it.
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Engendering Judaism
Rachel Adler
Jewish Publication Society, 1998
Looks especially at how halakha (Jewish law), prayer, and marriage might be addressed in a Judaism that wanted to become fully inclusive of women as well as men.
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Biblical Women in the Midrash
Naomi Hyman
Jason Aronson, 1997
Brought ancient rabbinic midrash about the women of the Bible face-to-face with the midrash written by women of the renewal generation.
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The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah
Ellen Frankel
Grosset/Putnam, 1996
Imaginatively weaves midrashic comments by real and archetypal women into biblical texts.
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