Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : : Kallah's choice / / Amy K. Milligan.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lanham ;, Boulder ;, New York ;, London : : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (167 pages) |
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Table of 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.