Love, marriage, and Jewish families : paradoxes of a social revolution / Sylvia Barack Fishman, editor.

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2015]

xvi, 340 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Part I. Love, sexuality and personal choice -- What's love got to do with it? Marriage and non-marriage among younger American Jews / Daniel Parmer -- Caught in the middle: gender, dating, and singlehood among religious zionist Jews / Ari Engelberg -- We all still have to potty train: same-sex couple families and the American Jewish community / Jonathan Krasner -- Gays and lesbians in Israel: an overview / Irit Koren -- Part II. Family transformations -- View from a different planet: fertility attitudes, performances, and policies among Jewish Israelis / Sergio DellaPergola -- Dreams and realities: American Jewish young adults' decisions about fertility / Michelle Shain -- Jewish single mothers by choice / Tehilla Blumenthal -- Judaism as the "third shift": Jewish families negotiating work, family, and religious lives / Rachel S. Bernstein and Sylvia Barack Fishman -- Part III. Marriage and the law -- Behold you are [fill in the blank] to me: contemporary legal and ritual approaches to qiddushin / Gail Labovitz -- Negotiating divorce at the intersection of Jewish and civil law in North America / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe -- Women, divorce, and mamzer status in the state of Israel / Susan Weiss -- Part IV. Backlash and reaction -- The secret of Jewish masculinity: contemporary Haredi gender ideology / Yoel Finkelman -- Between modesty and beauty: reinterpreting female piety in the Israeli Haredi community / Lea Taragin-Zeller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.