Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape / Edition 1

by Nehama Aschkenasy

Overview

In this book, Aschkenasy analyzes the Woman at the Window image, allowing for new interpretation of the classic myths surrounding it.

In creative, analytical retellings of biblical tales about women, Aschkenasy demonstrates how recurring situations, dilemmas, and modes of conduct represent the politics of women’s realities in premodern civilization—how women’s lives in those times were characterized by social and legal limitations which some accepted and others challenged.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814326275
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Nehama Aschkenasy is a professor and the director of the Center for Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. She is author of numerous books and essays, among them the award-winning Eve’s Journey: Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition (Wayne State University Press, 1994).

Editorial Reviews

Aschkensay's book transcends ideological limitations and gives the reader an interesting and valuable insight into female biblical characters and the manner in which we perceive them.

Shofar

"Demonstrates brilliantly how, in this patriarchal culture, some women become powerful by virtue of action, some by cunning, and some by exploiting their verbal talents."

Brown University - David H. Hirsch