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| 978-1-4632-0084-8 | Devine, Luke. Second-Wave Jewish Feminism, 1971-1991: Foundational Theology and Sacral Discourse
This book is the definitive critical analysis of the Jewish feminist theological project in the United States, its principal theologians and its foundational, embryonic, and more elaborated sacral discursive. The monograph critically examines each of the diverse theologians, their varied perspectives, and individual contributions, and asks will a prescriptive Jewish feminist theology ever be a reality? More... | $146.80 | Add to Cart |  | 
| 978-1-61143-969-4 | Sherry, Kurt. Kassia the Nun in Context
Kassia the Nun in Context provides both scholarly and non-expert readers with a wide-ranging analysis of a remarkable female writer of the Iconoclastic period. Her reflections on matters of Christology, gender, and monasticism inject diversity into the study of Byzantium. More... | $123.85 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-684-6 | Devine, Luke. Lily Montagu's Shekhinah
Lily Montagu's Shekhinah outlines Lily Montagu’s theological writing, particularly her appropriation of the feminine aspect of the divine presence, Shekhinah, and provides a much needed corrective to the androcentric Anglo-Jewish historiography that has ignored, marginalized, and completely erased, the founder of the Liberal Jewish movement in England. Indeed, Luke Devine's book is vital reading for students of Anglo-Jewry, First-Wave feminism, Jewish feminism, Liberal Judaism, and Jewish mysticism. More... | $130.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61719-626-3 | Gruber, Mayer. The Women of Israel by Grace Aguilar
For almost a century after it was first published in 1845 Grace Aguilar's Women of Israel was presented as a high school graduation gift and even as a Christmas present to employees in businesses. More than 150 years before the current proliferation of books on women in biblical narrative and biblical law, Aguilar offered brilliant and innovative interpretations of abiding value. She took for granted that her readers could read Hebrew and that they, like herself, knew the King James Bible from memory. The extensive introduction and notes will make this new edition once again accessible to laypersons, students, and scholars. More... | $236.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-655-4 | Arapoglou, Eleftheria. A Bridge Over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of "Women's Orients"
This book is a critical study of Demetra Vaka Brown, one of the most significant Greek American writers of the turn of the last century, framed within the fields of “Orientalism” and cultural studies. More... | $162.50 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61719-915-8 | Devine, Luke. From Anglo-First-Wave towards American Second-Wave Jewish Feminism: Negotiating with Jewish Feminist Theology and its Communities in the Writing of Amy Levy
This book completely redefines our understanding of Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy’s writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly inflected by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evidences a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings.
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| 978-1-61143-003-5 | Gelfer, Joseph. The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality brings together the best papers published to date in JMMS, offering them for the first time in printed form. More... | $145.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-087-7 | Craven, Elizabeth, and Daniel O'Quinn. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople
Written by one of the most scandalous figures in the beau monde and published just prior to the French Revolution, A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789) transported readers to the most exclusive courts of Russia and the Ottoman Empire. More... | $168.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-270-3 | Hazard, Caroline. A Brief Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
This series of addresses constitute a unique travelogue from a renowned author and traveler Caroline Hazard. In addition to her ability as a travel writer, Hazard was also an artist and poet. Her talents in this regard are clear to readers of this little book. Paintings and photographs from her journey to the Holy Land are interspersed with her account of her travels and sonnets that provide the ambiance of the experience for her readers. Unconventional as a travel journal in its anecdotal narration of her impressions, the overall feel of the book is an experience for any armchair adventurer. More... | $126.40 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-243-7 | Dobson, A. Mount Sinai
This timeless travelogue by noted hymnographer and missionary A. Mary R. Dobson recounts her journey to the manuscript-rich monastery of St. Catherine’s in the Sinai peninsula. Traveling with her cousin, Orientatlist Rendel Harris, Dobson wrote an account of her journey that still captures the imagination of modern day readers. More... | $122.50 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-60724-211-6 | Petersen, Joan. Handmaids of the Lord
Throughout the christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models—Macrina, the two Paulas and Melanias, Radagunde—and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relationship with the Church and the world, not least with male authority figures.
More... | $166.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-979-1 | Clohessy, Christopher. Fatima, Daughter of Muhammad
This work, based almost entirely on the primary Arabic texts of Sunnî and Shî’a Islam, offers a fresh examination of the life of Fatima, Muhammad’s only surviving child, and reveals for the first time her distinctive and fascinating personality. More... | $141.55 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-977-7 | Holloway, Steven, JoAnn Scurlock, and Richard Beal. In the Wake of Tikva Frymer-Kensky
This volume consists of 14 papers delivered by Assyriologists and biblical specialists at the 2007 Society of Biblical Literature congress in sessions devoted to the scholarly legacy of the late Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. More... | $138.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-895-4 | Goodine, Elizabeth. Standing At Lyon
Blandina of Lyon, a lowly slave, battles the powers of the Roman Empire. Using Bowen Theory and the writings of Foucault the book explains how the anxiety of authority figures results in their failure to quell the rise of Christianity. More... | $148.44 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-309-6 | Ellison, Grace. An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem
Grace Ellison (d. 1935) actively encouraged dialogues between Turkish and British women at the outset of the twentieth century. Despite an impressive legacy, Ellison and her work have almost disappeared from the historical record; the republication of this 1915 work aims to address this neglect. More... | $63.05 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-211-2 | Ellison, Grace. An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem
Grace Ellison (d. 1935) actively encouraged dialogues between Turkish and British women at the outset of the twentieth century. Connected with progressive Ottoman elites discussing female and social emancipation, Ellison stayed in an Ottoman harem. Working as a respected journalist, she published articles about British-Turkish relations, Turkish nationalism, and the status of women across cultures. This book recounts Ellison’s stay with her friend Fâtima and features reports on motherhood, employment, polygamy, slavery, harem life, modernization, veiling, and prominent women writers. Despite an impressive legacy, Ellison and her work have almost disappeared from the historical record; the republication of this 1915 work aims to address this neglect. More... | $85.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-398-6 | Al-Shati, Bint. The Wives of the Prophet Muhammad
This is an account of the family life of the Prophet Muhammad, concerning the noble ladies who lived in his house. The author tries to visualize the life of each of the women, their relationships with the Prophet, and their roles as wives and women. The work is based on authentic Islamic sources such as Tabari, Waqidi, Ibn Ishaq, and Ibn Hisham. The author concentrates on the life of Muhammad among his wives, and on his treatment and discipline of them. This text gives an insight into the life of women at the beginning of the Islamic Era. More... | $63.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-217-4 | Vaka Brown, Demetra. The Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul)
The Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul) is a picturesque description of women's life in post-World War I Turkey during a period of social and political turmoil. Here Demetra Vaka (1877-1946), an expatriate of Ottoman Turkey, established American journalist and acquaintance of Prince Sabaheddin, returns to her native Istanbul after a 20-year absence. Describing women's lives in post-World War I Turkey, she reports on the successful project of female emancipation pursued by Mustafa Kemal as part of the nationalist agenda. Noting how much this project had benefited upper- and middle-class Turkish women, Vaka nonetheless regrets that the gradual emergence of the monocultural, modern Republic was bringing an end to the multiethnic character of the Ottoman State. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-363-3 | Pennacchietti, Fabrizio. Three Mirrors for Two Biblical Ladies: The Queen of Sheba and Susanna in the Eyes of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
The Queen of Sheba and the slandered Susanna are biblical figures who have seized the imagination of generations of Jews, Christians and Muslims in every age and land, taking on the image best fitted to their expectations. More... | $50.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-223-8 | Hanim, Melek. Thirty Years in the Harem
Melek Hanim, an Ottoman woman of Greek, Armenian, and French heritage, accompanied her husband to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, and shared with him the frustrations of the arbitrary periodic dismissals that characterized late Ottoman politics. Her account of life in Turkey contains details of political intrigue, corruption and demonstrates the influence and mobility available to women in the official households of the Ottoman elite. Filled with maneuvers, murder, divorce, political machinations, and vengeance, Hanim's life was an attempt to gain access to property she viewed as legitimately her own. This book was written during her later exile in Paris. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-220-3 | Ekrem, Selma. Unveiled
Selma Ekrem grew up among the progressive Ottoman Muslim elite. Ekrem benefited from having an unconventional mother, who did not insist on her daughter's veiling. The book covers the family's sojourns outside Istanbul when her father was governor in Jerusalem during the 1908 Young Turk revolution and then governor of the Greek Archipelago Islands, where the whole family was held captive when their island was taken by the Greeks during the Balkan Wars. Returning to Istanbul just as World War I broke out, Ekrem attended the American College for Girls. Frustrated at the restrictions of Turkish female life, Ekrem traveled to America and countered prevalent stereotypes by lecturing on Turkey. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-208-4 | Hanim, Melek. Thirty Years in the Harem
Melek Hanim, an Ottoman woman of Greek, Armenian, and French heritage, accompanied her husband to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, and shared with him the frustrations of the arbitrary periodic dismissals that characterized late Ottoman politics. Her account of life in Turkey contains details of political intrigue, corruption and demonstrates the influence and mobility available to women in the official households of the Ottoman elite. Filled with maneuvers, murder, divorce, political machinations, and vengeance, Hanim's life was an attempt to gain access to property she viewed as legitimately her own. This book was written during her later exile in Paris. More... | $106.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-307-2 | Jenkins, Hester Donaldson. Behind Turkish Lattices: The Story of a Turkish Woman's Life
Hester Donaldson Jenkins (1869-1941), a professor at the American College for Girls in Constantinople from 1900-1909, wrote enthusiastically about the Young Turks who seemed to promise new freedoms for Ottoman women. Jenkins uses her own observations of Constantinople, her students, and their families to construct an account of a "typical" Turkish Muslim woman's life cycle at this turning point in Ottoman history. She directs her comments toward childhood, education, marriage, polygamy, and divorce, in order to correct Western misapprehensions. In its confidence in the bright prospects of American influence and Ottoman reform, this book captures an optimistic moment in which social progress seemed to be thriving. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-308-0 | Vaka Brown, Demetra. Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women
Born as a Greek Ottoman in Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. She based this, her first book, on experiences from 1901, when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domestic life and the harem was becoming a thing of the past. Her reflections on life in the harem suggest the conflicted nature of her allegiances: Vaka is nostalgic for the Ottoman life that was rapidly disappearing, but she also enjoys the freedoms of a professional American woman. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-303-X | Bowman Dodd, Anna. In the Palaces of the Sultan
As Anna Bowman Dodd (1855-1929), a New York travel writer and journalist, journeyed to Istanbul with the American Ambassador to France she embarked on a detailed account of the city and its people. Interested in documenting the changes in Turkey brought about by the "embrace" of modernity and progress, she considers Turkish women's rights, harems and marriage, the management of the household, education, slavery, the Sultan's reign, and nationalist movements in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. She caters to the American market for Orientalism but is also reflexive about its employment, both invoking and undercutting stereotypes as she addresses the "Eastern Question." More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-304-8 | Brassey, Lady Annie. Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
In this diary recording two voyages to Constantinople, Lady Annie Brassey demonstrates her keen eye for human interest and narrative detail. The modern reader will glimpse natural wonders and cultural distinctions of Portuagal, Spain, Moroco, Italy, Greece, and Turkey during the mid-1870s. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-305-6 | Edib Adivar, Halidé. Memoirs of Halide Edib
A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Edib Adivar (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, while she and her second husband Dr. Adnan were in exile in London and Paris having fallen out of favor with Mustafa Kemal's one-party regime. Edib describes her childhood, her confrontation with her first husband's polygyny, her divorce, and her entry into political and literary writing. Edib's account of her private life provides a unique example of a woman's individual and personal struggle for emancipation and gender equality. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-306-4 | Hanoum, Zeyneb, and Reina Lewis. A Turkish Woman's European Impressions
Born into the Ottoman Muslim elite, Zeyneb Hanoum and her sister Melek Hanoum were given a Western-style education by their progressive father, who expected them subsequently to live the segregated lives of Ottoman ladies. Rebelling, the sisters collaborated with the French author Pierre Loti, hoping that harnessing European intellectual support would speed up Ottoman social reform. Fleeing Istanbul in 1906 for fear of imperial reprisals, the sisters traveled in disguise to Europe, hoping to find "freedom" in the West. With Zeyneb Hanum's letters punctuated by Grace Ellison's introduction, commentary, and footnotes, this book challenges Orientalist stereotypes and documents the vibrant engagement between Eastern and Western women at the fin de siècle. More... | $53.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-216-5 | Vaka Brown, Demetra. The Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul)
The Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul) is a picturesque description of women's life in post-World War I Turkey during a period of social and political turmoil. Here Demetra Vaka (1877-1946), an expatriate of Ottoman Turkey, established American journalist and acquaintance of Prince Sabaheddin, returns to her native Istanbul after a 20-year absence. Describing women's lives in post-World War I Turkey, she reports on the successful project of female emancipation pursued by Mustafa Kemal as part of the nationalist agenda. Noting how much this project had benefited upper- and middle-class Turkish women, Vaka nonetheless regrets that the gradual emergence of the monocultural, modern Republic was bringing an end to the multiethnic character of the Ottoman State. More... | $106.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-058-8 | Graetz, Naomi. Unlocking the Garden: A Feminist Jewish Look at the Bible, Midrash, and God
A stirring collection of fifteen articles, many of which have been previously published by the author who is a feminist Jew. The author unabashedly confronts difficult biblical and midrashic texts, without taking an apologetic stance. More... | $72.50 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-282-3 | Baum, Wilhelm. Shirin: Christian - Queen - Myth of Love
Shirin, the beloved wife of the Persian shah, Chosroes II (b. 628), pulled political strings behind the scenes and supported the Christian minority in Iran. More... | $63.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-153-3 | Bell, Gertrude. Amurath to Amurath: A Journey Along the Banks of the Euphrates
Gertrude Bell, the well-known explorer and archaeologist, began her extensive travels in the Near East in 1892. In her trips, she surveyed and photographed the areas which she visited and investigated archeological sites. More... | $89.00 | Add to Cart | |
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