“One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation across the feminist/nonfeminist divide”
One of the challenges for Modern Orthodoxy in particular is to enable halakhic conversation...
Tag Archives: Gender
“The anointing of sex positive feminism has… permitted the transformation of a deep and complex feminist movement into one that helps brand magazines and sell lingerie to women…”
The anointing of sex positive feminism has, over time, permitted the transformation of a...
“In another era, Minaj’s sexuality, expressed semi-parodically…might have given feminists pause”
In another era, Minaj’s sexuality, expressed semi-parodically — pretending she’s a Barbie doll; glorifying...
“I’ve never heard of a woman who was distracted by a male rabbi’s sermon due to his being good-looking”
It’s no secret that men are more sexually attracted to women then vice versa....
“…if gender were nothing more than a social convention, why was it necessary for Caitlyn Jenner to undergo facial surgeries, take hormones and remove her body hair?”
The prevailing narrative seems to be that gender is a social construct and that...
“Whether it’s from mere discomfort around women or buried chauvinism, the reality is that most men relate best to male leaders”
For better or for worse, men like their boy’s clubs. They’re attracted to environments...
“… we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work”
As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men,...
“…sexual identity was for them not a hidden mystery to be disclosed by means of the science of physiognomy, but the product of a simple distinction between sexual organs”
Both the issue of eunuchs and of bodily defects suggest that categories of a...
“In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics, inquiries into the Talmudic concept of gender took the shape of liberal feminist readings”
In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics,...
“A saris is simply a sterile man (just like an aylonit is a sterile woman)…”
There is nothing to indicate that the rabbis saw saris as effeminate or not...