Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : Kallah's choice / Amy K. Milligan.

By: Milligan, Amy K, 1982- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (167 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780739183663Subject(s): Hair -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Jewish women -- Religious life | Jewish women -- Conduct of life | Modesty -- Religious aspects -- JudaismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : Kallah's choice.DDC classification: 391.5088/296832 LOC classification: BM726 | .M56 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
A hairy subject: approaches to hair and hair covering -- Covering Jewish women: the congregational context -- Splitting hairs: the struggle for community definition in a small town Orthodox synagogue -- Wearing many hats: the hair covering practices of the Orthodox Jewish women at Degel Israel Synagogue -- Letting their hair down: Orthodox women at Degel Israel Synagogue who choose not to cover their hair -- Flipping their wigs for Judaism: non-Orthodox women who choose to cover their heads -- The long and short of it: a psychoreligious interpretation of hair covering.
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A hairy subject: approaches to hair and hair covering -- Covering Jewish women: the congregational context -- Splitting hairs: the struggle for community definition in a small town Orthodox synagogue -- Wearing many hats: the hair covering practices of the Orthodox Jewish women at Degel Israel Synagogue -- Letting their hair down: Orthodox women at Degel Israel Synagogue who choose not to cover their hair -- Flipping their wigs for Judaism: non-Orthodox women who choose to cover their heads -- The long and short of it: a psychoreligious interpretation of hair covering.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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