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You will write an essay about patriarchy in Iranian dress in Hormuz, and the pre-islamic history of dress for women there.
This is the research paper guidelines. Please ask if you are uncertain.
To write a standard research paper you need to have some sort of thesis (an overall argument backed by evidence to support it), must include citations in Chicago style (this generally means footnotes) and the bibliography of all the sources you actually used in the paper. The paper should be 6-8 pages long; the page length does not include the bibliography page.
What are some potential topics for the research project?:
What is a scholarly research source?
By “scholarly source” I mean (a) a piece of secondary literature (b) taken from an academic book or journal (c) that is a minimum of 5 pages long and (d) has footnotes or endnotes. Generally, articles found through the library search engine meet all these criteria, though be careful not to rely on book reviews as scholarly sources—and in my experience, you have to carefully filter your search results in the library search engine not to get book reviews as your first hits in any given search.
A “secondary source” means it is written by an academic rather than a member of the religious community you are studying. Sources by the religious community you’re studying are primary sources, and you can use these, but at least 5 sources from your project must be scholarly sources.
We’ll spend some time in class talking about good databases for looking for scholarly sources on religion, sex and gender, but in general JSTOR, Ebscohost Academic Search and the ATLA Religion database—all accessible via the library’s main page—are good databases on religion.
research sources I will draw on interviews with two Orthodox Jewish women I know.
Sources of Annotated bibliography:
Two sample entries with description of what is learned from the source (remember the assignment needs eight entries, five of which should be summaries of scholarly sources.)
Biale, Rachel. Women and Jewish Law. New York: Schocken, 1995. Print.: This book gives an overall perspective on the role of women in halakhah (Jewish law), covering topics such as marriage, divorce, women abandoned by their spouses (agunot), marital sexuality, premarital sex, homosexuality, adultery, abortion and contraception. In addition to containing commentary on those topics, it includes excerpts of primary texts on all these topics. I will be drawing primarily on the primary texts covering the topic of niddah (menstrual purity) to provide the background for what Jewish law teaches on this topic.
Greenberg, Blu. On Women in Judaism: A View From Tradition. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994. Print.: Overall this book is an examination of laws and rituals connected to women in Judaism, written from an Orthodox Jewish woman’s perspective. Greenberg’s work is very interesting because her overall argument is that despite some of the halachic restrictions on Jewish women’s roles, it is possible to be an Orthodox Jewish feminist. Much of the book makes arguments about expanding Jewish women’s roles where it is halachically possible, such as expanding on pre- existing rituals (Rosh Hodesh, etc.). The section I am drawing most on in my paper is her discussion of the laws of niddah, or menstrual purity laws. Though she acknowledges that many see these laws as depicting women’s bodies as somehow polluted, she thinks that this is a uniquely feminine ritual in Judaism that can be reclaimed by Jewish feminists.
Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective. Albany, N.Y.: State U of New York, 1992. SUNY Ser., the Body in Culture, History, and Religion. Web.
Ner-David, Haviva. “Niddah.” Niddah: A Case in Point of Feminist Reinterpretation. 2003. To Be a Jewish Woman (2003) 76-115. Web.
Wasserfall, Rahel. Menstruation and Identity: The Meaning of Niddah for Moroccan Women Immigrants. 2010. Web.
Weinstein, Rachel, interview by Jane Q. Student, March 21, 2018. Wyrick, Chava, interview by Jane Q. Student, March 24, 2018.
Example two:
My overall topic research topic is menstrual purity laws in Judaism and how they affect the sexual lives of Orthodox Jewish women. I will give a 15 minute class presentation that traces the history of menstrual purity law and then draws on interviews with two different Orthodox Jewish women to explore how these laws have affected their marriages and their experience of sexuality.
Sources: [Omitted because they’re the same as example one]
Example three:
My final project will be a short story that examines the diversity of Jewish perspectives on niddah, the laws of menstrual purity by showing a dialogue among 4 Jewish women: a bride-to-be, her observant Orthodox Jewish mother, her grandmother who was raised Orthodox but is now no longer observant, and her sister who is studying to be a Conservative Jewish rabbi. The positions of the different women in the story will be informed by scholarly research on Jewish halachic positions on menstruation from the Orthodox and Conservative traditions, as well as two interviews of Jewish women I am conducting.
Sources: [Omitted because they’re the same as example one]
