Education
El-Or"s Doctor of Philosophy dissertation was a study of ultra-Orthodox women in Israel.
El-Or"s Doctor of Philosophy dissertation was a study of ultra-Orthodox women in Israel.
The research was published as a book, Educated and Ignorant, in both Hebrew and English. In this book, El-Or discusses the possibility of educating for ignorance: teaching certain groups (in this case, girls and women) to expect and respect intellectual restrictions. This research in gender and religion debated feminist questions of choice, empowerment, and resistance via the life of Orthodox women.
The fieldwork and findings on the ultra-Orthodox community led to research on the modern (national) Orthodox community in Israel, and to the book Next year I will know more.
This book describes and analyzes a feminist revolution via knowledge among young women from the modern Orthodox community. This researched turned into another book, Reserved Seats: gender ethnicity and religion in Israel.
These monographs form a trilogy on gender, religion, and the meanings of knowing. El-Or has numerous articles on issues related to her main research fields, as well as articles on other issues, such as Israeli motherhood, anthropological methodology, sociological aspects of literature and the plastic arts, et cetera
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