Strictly observant : Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women negotiating media


Rivka Neriya-Ben Sharar
Bok Engelsk 2024 Rivka. Neriya-Ben Shahar
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Under the eyes of God: One day in the life of an Old Order Amish woman -- From the holy house and community to the secular workplace and back: One day in the life of the Ultra-Orthodox woman -- Only occasionally, when I happen to be around one: self-justifications of media consumption as boundary management -- My husband just told me...: The women's relationships with news -- Satan's tool to draw our focus away from God: The women's perceptions about media technologies and content -- We'd rather talk about babies: Sharing behaviors among Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women -- I made it as a boundary for myself: Concluding discussion.. - "The Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women's relationship to media in these communities, however, betrays a more nuanced picture of the boundaries at play and women's roles in negotiating them. Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women regularly establish valuable social, cultural, and religious capital through the countless decisions for use and non-use of media that they make in their daily lives, and in ways that challenge the gender hierarchies of each community. By exhibiting a deep awareness of how media can be managed to increase their social and religious reputations, these women prompt us to reconsider out outmoded understanding of the Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, the role that women play in these communities as agents of change, and our own relationship to media today"--
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9781978805217. - 9781978805224

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