RLST 163:  WOMEN AND GENDER IN JEWISH TRADITION
 
Professor Gary Gilbert
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Claremont McKenna College
telephone:  909.607.1877
e-mail:  gary_gilbert@mckenna.edu
 
The course examines how women from the biblical period to the present have experienced Judaism and contributed to the development of Jewish thought and practice.  Special attention is given to the representation and status of women in classical Jewish texts and the recent efforts to transform contemporary Jewish life.
 
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