Delphine Horvilleur
In Eve's Attire: Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body
In Eve's Attire: Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body
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In Eve's Attire, Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur challenges traditional interpretations of religious texts that sexualize and oppress women by examining the meanings of modesty and nudity in Judaism. She suggests that the veil was originally intended to approach the other rather than reject it and that nakedness refers to a culture of desire rather than a wish to suppress it.
Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 03 March 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?
How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic, or corrupted?
Does sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be veiled?
In Eve's Attire confronts these questions and more to suggest another interpretation of religious traditions surrounding the female body and the erotic.
As 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.
Through 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.
Translated from the French by Ruth Diver
Weight: 272g
Dimension: 139 x 204 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529404777
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