Rabbis and “Guerrilla Girls” A Bavli Motif of the Female (Counter) Voice in the Rabbinic Legal System
Journal: Women in Judaism A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
Year: 2013

Normal 0 0 1 215 1227 10 2 1506 11.1539 0 0 0 Rabbinic Judaism created a system of laws and legal categories that generally functioned to put women at a social and material disadvantage. Intriguingly, then, rabbinic sources also include scattered stories of women in their own, rabbinic context(s) confronting and finding ways to maneuver within the details of those laws so as to attempt (and even to succeed) to secure a favorable result. Rachel Adler and Charlotte Fonrobert have used terms such a