The Right Question Is Theological
Judith Plaskow
1983
The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite-human—is repeated in—or should one say partly modelled on?—the Jewish understanding of the Jewish woman. She too is the stranger whose life is lived…
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