The HBI and Brandeis University Press are collaborating on a new book series under the editorship of Lisa Fishbayn and Sylvia Neil.
The mandate for the series is to provide an avenue for publication of work that furthers our mission to foster dialogue about conflicts between women's claims to gender equality and practices justified in terms of religious and cultural tradition. This includes research on the rights of women in Jewish law, both in Israel and the Diaspora, and comparative work that considers women's rights under religious law from an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective.
The criteria for selection for the series are:
1) Does the work break new theoretical ground by:
- developing new approaches to the place of gender in the political theory of multiculturalism
- developing new theoretical tools for conceptualizing feminist projects for transforming the interpretation and justification of religious law
- engaging in analysis of conflicts over gender and culture/religion in a particular religious tradition, cultural community or nation with a depth and complexity not seen in previous work.
2) Does the work engage with debates over gender and culture/religion from a cross-cultural perspective, by:
- working with case studies that compare challenges and innovations in different legal, cultural or religious regimes
- working on a single regimes or set of legal regimes, but constituting a contribution to a dialogue with other works previously published or contemplated for inclusion in the series. This would entail, for example, works that address similar questions or take similar approaches to gender and religious law challenges in Jewish law and Muslim law published sequentially so that they “speak” to each other.
Titles in the series so far:
1) Untying the Knots: Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Religious Laws, Lisa Fishbayn and Sylvia Neil eds., Brandeis University (forthcoming 2010). An anthology of essays based on papers presented at our recent conference.
2) The Maleness of Jewish Law, Ronit Irshai, Bar Ilan University (forthcoming 2010) Irshai brings contemporary legal and social theory to analysis and reinterpretation of halachic norms regarding new reproductive technologies.
3) Gender, Justice and Dialogue: Transforming Women's Rights Under Jewish Law, Lisa Fishbayn, Brandeis University (forthcoming 2011). The book will discuss legislative and activist strategies for opening transformative dialogue between civil and religious authorities in Israel and around the world to ameliorate women's rights under Jewish laws of marriage and divorce.
4) Putting the Cat Amongst the Pigeons: Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim their Religions, Jan Feldman, University of Vermont, (forthcoming 2011). Feldman builds on her scholarship about the political styles of ultra-orthodox Jews to provide an account of feminist law reformers in Kuwait and Israel as "connected critics".
We welcome letters of inquiry regarding manuscripts that might be suitable for the series on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law. Please contact the editors at Fishbayn@brandeis.edu.
Lisa Fishbayn, Gender, Multiculturalism and Dialogue: The Case of Jewish Divorce 21:1, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE (2008).
Lisa Fishbayn, British Colonial Policy and the Construction of Rabbinic Family Law , in WOMEN’S LEGAL STATUS DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE PERIOD, Margalit Shilo, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and Eyal Katvan eds., (Forthcoming, Bar-Ilan University Press 2009) (Hebrew)
Lisa Fishbayn
Migrancy, Identity and Legal Change: Jewish Women and Ritual Head Covering in America,12th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES, SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, APRIL 3-4, 2009.
"Here One Does Not Even Wear A Kerchief", Religious Headcovering and American Identity, (UN)DRESSING RELIGION, CLOTHING, AND IDENTITY, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, September 18, 2008.
Untying the Knots: Introductory Remarks, UNTYING THE KNOTS: THEORIZING CONFLICTS BETWEEN GENDER EQUALITY AND RELIGIOUS LAWS, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, April 15, 2008.
Preliminary Comments on Bruker v. Markowitz, CONFERENCE ON RELIGION, CITIZENSHIP, AND MULTI-CULTURALISM, CAMBRIDGE, MA, Harvard Law School, February 29-March 1, 2008.
Transformative Dialogue in Family Law, IMMIGRATION, MINORITIES AND MULTICULTURALISM IN DEMOCRACIES, MONTREAL October 25-27, 2007.
Law., Gender and Multiculturalism: The Divorce Act and Transformative Dialogue, MANAGING AND ACCOMODATING MULTIPLE DIVERSITIES: RECENT EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, WEATHERHEAD CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, May 3-5, 2007.
Law, Gender and Multiculturalism in Jewish Divorce, AN UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION: RELIGIOUS VISIONS IN THE FAMILY: IMAGES AND ASPIRATIONS FOR EQUALITY, EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, May 11-12, 2007.
Gender, Multiculturalism and Dialogue: The Case of Jewish Divorce. WORKSHOP ON MULTICULTURALISM AND MORAL CONFLICT, DURHAM UNIVERISTY, DURHAM, UNITED KINGDOM, March 21-23, 2007.
Day of Study on Women, Gender Equality and Jewish Law in Israel, organizer and moderator, HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSTITUTE, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, February 6, 2007.
Law, Gender and Multiculturalism: The Case of Agunot, JOFA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FEMINISM AND ORTHODOXY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, February 10-11, 2007.
Gender, Multiculturalism and Dialogue: The Case of Jewish Divorce, NORTHEASTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, BOSTON, November 9-11, 2006 (nominated for best paper prize).
Legal Aspects of the Agunah Problem, panel discussion following the screening of Sentenced to Marriage: Mekudeshet, JEWISHFILM.2006 Film Festival, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY. April 26, 2006.
Theorizing Legal Struggles on behalf of Agunot,, SCHOLAR’S SEMINAR SERIES, WOMEN’S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTRE, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, March 30, 2006.
Gender, Culture and Dialogue, CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITITES, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, March 17-18, 2006.
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