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Lehrende: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yemima Hadad; Dr. Yasmin Koppen
Veranstaltungsart:
Vorlesung
Orga-Einheit: 01-Evangelische Theologie
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VL Judaistik
Fach:
Anrechenbar für:
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung:
The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz observed that “the greatest revolution in human history, occurred when the spiritual and social culture ceased being men-culture and became human-culture.” This seminar offers an overview of feminist thought and its discontents in Jewish tradition. Beginning with early examples of Jewish feminism in the Bible and in rabbinic literature the course will engage with the experience of women and with feminist philosophy and theology from 19th century Europe to the present. Its main focus will be on German-Jewish, US American and Israeli figures and move130423ments in feminism. The course will be divided into the following units:
1. Female power and in Biblical and rabbinic sources: classical and contemporary readings (e.g. Lilith, Miriam, Esther, Bruria)
2. Women and Jewish modernization: from salon culture to early women movements (e.g. Henriette Hertz, Rahel Varnhagen, Fanny Lewald, Bertha Pappenheim)
3. Women intellectuals and revolutionaries (e.g. Rosa Luxemburg, Margarete Susmann, Hannah Arendt)
4. Feminism as a movement: Post war voices (e.g. Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem)
5. The emergence Jewish Feminist Theology (e.g. Judith Plaskow, Rachel Adler, Rita Gross,)
6. Jewish Feminism in Israel (e.g. Tamar Ross, Rachel Elior, Women of the wall)
7. Jewish Feminist theology today (e.g. Blu Greenberg, Vanessa Ochs, Ellen M. Umansky)
8. Contemporary issues (e.g. Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum)
Organisatorisches:
Zielgruppe: Alle bitte, insbs. D/KE; BA Judentum in Tradition und Gegenwart; Kulturwissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft
Voraussetzungen:
Leistungsnachweis: Prüfungsleistungen sind entsprechend der Studien- und Prüfungsordnung zu erbringen. Referat
Modulverantwortliche/r: Jun.Prof. Dr. Yemima Hadad
Literatur:
Selected literature:
1. Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Women (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974)
2. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York:W.W. Norton, 1997 [1963])
3. Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (San Francisco: Harper, 1990)
4. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge 1990).
5. Susannah Heschel (ed.), On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader, (New York: Schocken Books, 1983).
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