Keeping women in their digital place: the maintenance of Jewish gender norms online

“Examines the web of tensions found in online Jewish spaces, including websites, forums, and social media debates, and explores how Orthodox Jewish women negotiate gender and sexual norms by both pushing the boundaries of accepted norms and enforcing traditional behaviors” ; “In Keeping Women in Their Digital Place, Ruth Tsuria explores how Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States and Israel have used “digital enclaves”—online safe havens created specifically for their denominations—to renegotiate traditional values in the face of taboo discourse encountered online. Combining a personal narrative with years of qualitative analysis, Tsuria examines how discussions in blogs and forums and on social media navigate issues of modesty, dating, marriage, intimacy, motherhood, and feminism. Unpacking the complexity of religious uses of the internet, Tsuria shows how the participatory qualities of digital spaces have been used both to challenge accepted norms and—more pervasively—to reinforce traditional and even extreme attitudes toward gender and sexuality.”