Professor Jan Feldman specializes in political theory and political culture. She has published in the field of Soviet political theory, the post-Soviet transition to democracy, trade policy and population theory. She is the author of Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism (Brandeis UP, May 2011) and Lubavitchers As Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy (April, 2003, Cornell University Press).
Professor Feldman earned her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, and serves as associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont.
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Series: Sinai Scholars Academic Symposium 2015
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What are the religious roots of feminism and equal rights? Are there no ways in which men and women should be seen as different? How do religious women, Muslim and Jewish, dovetail their religious beliefs with their support of respect and rights for women? In this thought provoking talk Professor Jan Feldman quotes from a wide variety of sources, including the Bible, Sharia law, Martin Luther King, Immanuel Kant, to explain how liberal feminism has misread religious feminism across the religious spectrum
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