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- Title
Jewish Women's KIPPOT: Meanings and Motives.
- Authors
Darwin, Helana
- Abstract
Considerable literature has examined the meanings associated with gender-normative religious head covering practices such as Muslim women's hijabs, Jewish women's sheitels and headscarves, and Jewish men's kippot. However, very few studies have explored the meanings of Jewish women's kippot. This article advances Amy Milligan's ethnographic research on this matter through open-ended survey data from 576 Jewish women who wear kippot. Unlike Milligan's lesbian sample, this largely heterosexual sample claims to wear the kippah for many of the same reasons that men do: to 'do Jewish,' 'feel Jewish,' 'look Jewish,' and to display their status relative to other Jews. Respondents acknowledge that their kippah practice also signifies egalitarianism, but they emphasize that this is but one of the garment's many meanings.
- Subjects
YARMULKES; FEMINISM; MILLIGAN, Amy; JEWISH identity; WOMEN (Jewish law)
- Publication
Contemporary Jewry, 2017, Vol 37, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0147-1694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12397-016-9183-4