Appropriately subversive: modern mothers in traditional religions

"How do mothers reconcile conflicting loyalties - to their religious traditions, and to the daughters whose freedoms are also constrained by those traditions? Searching for answers, Tova Hartman Halbertal interviewed mothers of teenage daughters in religious communities: Catholics in the United...

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Main Author: Hartman Halbertal, Tova (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2002
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"How do mothers reconcile conflicting loyalties - to their religious traditions, and to the daughters whose freedoms are also constrained by those traditions? Searching for answers, Tova Hartman Halbertal interviewed mothers of teenage daughters in religious communities: Catholics in the United States and Orthodox Jews in Israel." "Sounding surprisingly alike, both groups described conscious struggles among their loyalties and talked about their attempts to make sense of and pass on their multiple commitments. They described accommodations and rationalizations and efforts to make small changes where they felt that their faith unjustly subordinated women. But often they did not feel they could tell their daughters how troubled they were. To keep their daughters safe within the protective culture of their ancestors, the mothers had to hide much of themselves in the hope that their daughters would know them more completely in the future."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index
Physical Description:xi, 193 p. 22 cm
ISBN:0674008863

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