{"product_id":"in-eves-attire-modesty-judaism-and-the-female-body-hardcover","title":"In Eve's Attire: Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDelphine Horvilleur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDoes modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoes sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be veiled?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Eve's Attire\u003c\/i\u003e confronts these questions and more to suggest another interpretation of religious traditions surrounding the female body and the erotic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs current fundamentalist religious discourse expresses a growing fixation on modesty, women are increasingly reduced to those parts of their bodies that arouse desire, effectively \"genitalised\" until the totality of their bodies becomes taboo. In resistance to such interpretations of religious text, which see even a woman's voice as an erotic organ to be silenced, Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur looks not only at religious texts themselves, but also at their interpreters, as she unpicks readings that make the woman a temptress, and modesty the instrument of her oppression. She shows us how nakedness, as expressed by Adam, Eve or Noah, refers to a culture of desire and not a wish to suppress it and explores how the veil was originally intended: not to reject, but to approach the other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough her analysis of the meaning of modesty and nudity in Judaism, Delphine Horvilleur explores the societal and religious obsession with the female body and its representation and asks questions about how we can engage more critically with interpretations of sacred texts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the French by Ruth Diver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelphine Horvilleur is one of the few female Rabbis in France. She was ordained in America, as there was no possibility to study in France as a woman, and belongs to the Mouvement juif libéral de France. She drew media attention in the wake of the rise of antisemitic attacks and vandalism in France for her consistently compelling case for laicity and her strong feminist stance on social justice issues. She has written for the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHaaretz\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eEn tenue d'Eve: féminin, pudeur et judaïsme\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eComment les rabbins font des enfants\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Grasset.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52758294528307,"sku":"9781529404777","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/3SrG65R5rB9781529404777.webp?v=1782792868","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/in-eves-attire-modesty-judaism-and-the-female-body-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}