![]() ![]() Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books, Ilana M. ![]() Women Who Would Be Rabbis, Pamela Susan Nadellģ. And women, when we claim religious space as our own, have adapted to, or demolished, constraints in awesome ways.Ģ. Traditions tend to be patriarchal we must either conform or make our own way within them. Such is the nature of women’s relationships to religions. And religious men, confronted with their own shortcomings and hypocrisies, are not necessarily poised to extend a hand and help a gal out. Good country people may carry booze in hollowed out Bibles, but that trick works best if you’re a man. The young woman, a hopeful reformer, discovers that, despite her own hard-earned insights, she has remained blind to how little her knowledge impacts the perspectives of those never inclined to respect her in the first place. ![]() Her aha moment within it, one of recognition, indignation, and humiliation-“‘Give me my leg,’ she said,”-looms as one my favorite moments in women’s religious literature. The encounter doesn’t go quite as she plans. In Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” a young woman–capable, brilliant, and an outsider in her Southern community by virtue of these and other traits–feels pity toward a traveling Bible salesman, a fellow obviously of inferior cerebral stock, and lures him to the loft for a bit of sexual/intellectual healing. ![]()
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