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(In)visible Women: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women's Faces and the Internet
- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2020
- pp. 61-91
- 10.1353/sho.2020.0023
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
Over the past fifty years, images of women have been disappearing from ultra-Orthodox and eventually Orthodox publications. Despite their communities' restrictions on internet usage among their followers, ultra-Orthodox women continue to be presented publicly on the internet at the same time that women's images and identities in ultra-Orthodox communities have been subject to erasure. The public personas of these women as they appear online navigate their community standards of modesty, rabbinical authority, and their gendered religious identities