For Women and Girls Only [electronic resource] : Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age.
Roda, Jessica.
2024
HQ1172 .R63 2024
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Title For Women and Girls Only [electronic resource] : Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age.
Author Roda, Jessica.
ISBN 1479809799
9781479809790 (electronic bk.)
9781479809752
1479809756
Imprint New York : New York University Press, 2024.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (331 p.)
Call Number HQ1172 .R63 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.48/8924
Summary A compelling look at the lives of ultra-Orthodox and formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish women and their use of media technologies to create a new market for music and filmMainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their community. This book flips this notion on its head. Drawing on six years of fieldwork between New York and Montreal, Jessica Roda examines modern performances on the stage and screen directed by and for ultra-Orthodox women. Their incredibly vibrant Jewish artistic scenes defy stereotypes that paint these women as repressed, reclusive to their shtetl (village), and devoid of creativity and agency.For Women and Girls Only argues that access to technology has completely transformed how ultra-Orthodox women express their way of being religious and that the digital era has enabled them to create an alternative entertainment market outside of the public, male-dominated one. Because expectations surrounding modesty, ultra-Orthodox women do not sing, dance, or act in front of men and the public. Yet, in a revolutionary move, they are creating "women and girls only" spaces onsite and online, putting the onus on men to shield themselves from the content. They develop modest public spaces on the Internet, about which male religious leaders are often unaware. The book also explores the entanglement between these observant female artists and those who left religion and became public performers. The author shows that the arts expressed by all these women offer a means of not only social but also economic empowerment in their respective worlds.For Women and Girls Only is a groundbreaking reversal of mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women, and of those who have left the community yet maintain ties to it. It is the first work to focus on the ultra-Orthodox female art scene in music, film, and dance across North America and on social media.
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Acknowledgments
Prelude. Departure: A Story of Origins
1. The Translocal Ethnographer
2. The Frum Female Artist
3. The Private Performer
4. The Celebrity
5. The Influencer
6. The Public Artist
Postlude. Arrival: Women Remaking Orthodoxy in the Digital Age
Appendix I: Rachel's Place Analysis
Appendix II: Selected List of Women Invested in the Arts
Appendix III: Selected List of Music Videos with Frum Female Singer
Glossary
Notes

Selected Bibliography
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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