Educated and Ignorant: Learning in the Lives of Ultraorthodox Jewish Women

Author:   Tamar El-Or
Publisher:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Edition:   illustrated Edition
ISBN:  

9781555873967


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   30 November 1993
Format:   Paperback
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Educated and Ignorant: Learning in the Lives of Ultraorthodox Jewish Women


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"This ethnography investigates the meaning of learning in the lives of ultra-orthodox Jewish women. Presenting a picture of the Gur Hassidic community in Israel, the author explores the relationship between women's literacy and their subordination. She finds that ultra-orthodox women are taught to be ignorant. These women perform the role of being ignorant only as educated women can. Preserving their social and emotional ties with the community, they are at the same time able to observe their surroundings, and even their own worlds, as if from the """"outside"""". This duality creates the social and personal conditions that allow them to accept their subordination, even at the end of the 20th century."

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Author:   Tamar El-Or
Publisher:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Edition:   illustrated Edition
ISBN:  

9781555873967


ISBN 10:   1555873960
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   30 November 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"The Theoretical Triangle; """"Tochen and Tachles"""" - The Women and Their Studies; The Ultra-Orthodox Community - Decoding Paradoxes and the Construction of Social Boundaries; The Production of Knowledge - Informants, Information and Methodology."

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