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Article: Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
- Author:
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What does it mean to transform a patriarchal religious tradition? What does it mean not simply to open it up to women's participation, broadening the range of faces in the classroom and pulpit, but to retell its stories, reshape its core imagery and create new rituals that sanctify aspects of experience it had relegated to the margins or declared anathema? How, and by what right, do feminists take the power to challenge ancient traditions at this level, traditions that claim not only the authority of age but also of divine sanction?
These questions occupy feminists in all the major world religions; these three very different books take on the project of transforming ...