Jewish Studies, Gender, and the Performance of Pedagogy

Abstract

In Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching (1988) Madeleine R. Grumet raises a question that has been taken seriously by teachers in Jewish Women's Studies: What would thinking back through our mothers mean to us, we the women who educate? (p. 191). Two recent collections of syllabi in Jewish Women's Studies which range from undergraduate and graduate courses to adult and continuing education courses provide the reader with a variety of approaches to the study of gender and Jewish studies.