WGSS 484ASocial Constructn of Whiteness

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This seminar foregrounds the study of gender in the wider Jewish historical experience. Beginning in antiquity and continuing up until the present day, the course asks how constructions of maleness and femaleness impacted Jewish communities, institutions, and individuals in religious, cultural, social, and economic life. The course also seeks to reconstruct the lives of Jewish women over time, and in doing so will draw on case studies from across the Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Mizrahi diasporas.