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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Notes on the Translation XIII
5. Chapter 1 A Community of Memory 1
6. Chapter 2 Communal Education in Traditional World 36
7. Chapter 3 Marriage in Patriarchal Society 77
8. Chapter 4 Patriarchy and Education 86
9. Chapter 5 Exclusive Authority over Knowledge 92
10. Chapter 6 On the Right to Literacy and Equality 114
11. Chapter 7 On the Connection between Ignorance and Enslavement: The Different Faces of Liberty 140
12. Chapter 8 ‘And He Shall Rule Over You’ 155
13. Chapter 9 Myths that Constitute and Create Consciousness 185
14. Chapter 10 Jewish Law and Gender Difference 228
15. Chapter 11 The Sin of Eve and the Punishment of Her Daughters: ‘He has made you to rule over her spirit so that she may walk according to your pleasure’ 236
16. Chapter 12 Woman as ‘Other’: From the Menacing Lilith of Myth to the Real Woman Burnt as a Witch 281
17. Chapter 13 The Patriarchal Order 341
18. Chapter 14 A Woman’s Duties to Her Husband and His Right to Beat Her, since ‘She is under His Authority’ 362
19. Chapter 15 Status: The Place Where Women May not Stand 386
20. Chapter 16 Erasure from Memory 392
21. Chapter 17 Exclusive Authority over Knowledge and Control of Literacy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 424
22. Chapter 18 The Beginning of the Revolution: New Thoughts on Relations between Men and Women 473
23. Chapter 19 The Beginnings of Jewish Feminism and its General Feminist Context 491
24. Chapter 20 Equal Rights for Women 512
25. Chapter 21 The Beginnings of Women’s Education 527
26. Chapter 22 History: Looking at the Past and the Present 551
27. Chapter 23 Testimonies about Women Writers and Women’s Writings in the Jewish Library 575
28. Chapter 24 Women and Death in Antiquity and Late Antiquity 579
29. Chapter 25 Women in the First Millennium 611
30. Chapter 26 Women in the First Half of the Second Millennium in the East and West 614
31. Chapter 27 Women Copyists, Printers and Scholars 635
32. Chapter 28 Women in the Early Modern Era 652
33. Chapter 29 Women Writers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Yiddish-Speaking Ashkenazi Society 657
34. Chapter 30 Jewish Women in the Muslim World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 667
35. Chapter 31 Women in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Beginning of the Struggle for Independence and Equality 672
36. Chapter 32 ‘To Create a New World’ 684
37. Chapter 33 On History, Literature, and Gender 711
38. Conclusion 721
39. Chronology 727
40. Bibliography 735
41. Index 776