In Eve's Attire - Delphine Horvilleur

In Eve's Attire

Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2023
MacLehose Press (Verlag)
978-1-5294-0479-1 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Women, modesty and Judaism reexamined by France's leading female rabbi.
Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?

How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted?

Does sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be veiled?

In Eve's Attire confronts these questions and more to suggest another interpretation of religious traditions surrounding the female body and the erotic.

As current fundamentalist religious discourse expresses a growing fixation on modesty, women are increasingly reduced to those parts of their bodies that arouse desire, effectively "genitalised" until the totality of their bodies becomes taboo. In resistance to such interpretations of religious text, which see even a woman's voice as an erotic organ to be silenced, Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur looks not only at religious texts themselves, but also at their interpreters, as she unpicks readings that make the woman a temptress, and modesty the instrument of her oppression. She shows us how nakedness, as expressed by Adam, Eve or Noah, refers to a culture of desire and not a wish to suppress it and explores how the veil was originally intended: not to reject, but to approach the other.

Through her analysis of the meaning of modesty and nudity in Judaism, Delphine Horvilleur explores the societal and religious obsession with the female body and its representation and asks questions about how we can engage more critically with interpretations of sacred texts.

Translated from the French by Ruth Diver

Delphine Horvilleur is one of the few female Rabbis in France. She was ordained in America, as there was no possibility to study in France as a woman, and belongs to the Mouvement juif libéral de France. She drew media attention in the wake of the rise of antisemitic attacks and vandalism in France for her consistently compelling case for laicity and her strong feminist stance on social justice issues. She has written for the Washington Post and Haaretz, and is the author of En tenue d'Eve : féminin, pudeur et judaïsme, and Comment les rabbins font des enfants, both published by Grasset.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.2.2023
Übersetzer Ruth Diver
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5294-0479-7 / 1529404797
ISBN-13 978-1-5294-0479-1 / 9781529404791
Zustand Neuware
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