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- Title
Redoing Gender, Redoing Religion.
- Authors
Darwin, Helana
- Abstract
This article advances a critical gender lens on the sociology of religion by arguing that “doing gender” and “doing religion” function as intertwined systems of accountability. To demonstrate the inextricability of these two systems, this study analyzes open-ended survey data from 576 Jewish women who wear kippot (skullcaps that are traditionally worn by Jewish men). These women’s responses reveal that this religious practice is fraught with social sanctions on the basis of the women’s simultaneous gender deviance and religious deviance. These women are not read as simply “doing Jewish” when they wear kippot; rather, they are read as doing something that is implicitly gendered, such as “doing religious feminism.” It appears that when Jewish women “un/re/do religion,” they simultaneously “un/re/do gender” and vice versa: gender scripts and religious scripts are inextricably intertwined.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; sociology; RELIGION &; gender; FEMINISM &; religion; JEWISH women -- Religious life; JEWISH women; YARMULKES; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2018, Vol 32, Issue 3, p348
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0891243218766497