[Themaintainers] From H-Judaic: What is Maintenance, and Why Does it Matter?

[lee vinsel]

Hey, Folks!

Thought this might be interesting to several people on the list (including
myself, though I'm not sure I can make it).

Lee


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EVENT: What is Maintenance, and Why Does it Matter? (March 15, 2021)
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by Siobhan Verlezza

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Type:

Lecture

Date:

March 15, 2021

Location:

New York, United States

Subject Fields:

Jewish History / Studies

Join us on March 15th at 4PM EST for a virtual webinar via Zoom.
Registration is required.

The concept of “maintenance” — food, clothing, or other in-kind provision
to family members labeled dependents — has a long history from antiquity to
modernity, in both Jewish and non-Jewish contexts. This talk explores the
rich history of this term, as well as its more remote use in classical
rabbinic texts. For the rabbis, maintenance was not just a legal
obligation, but a malleable concept for defining and thinking through
relationships within the household. The talk considers maintenance not only
as a legal term but as an entry point into constructions of gender and
labor in the ancient Jewish household.

*Pratima Gopalakrishnan* is a scholar of late antique Jewish religion and
history, who uses theoretical approaches drawn from feminist and queer
theory, and slavery and labor studies. She works primarily with late
antique rabbinic Jewish texts, as well as the textual and material
artifacts of late antique and early medieval legal cultures and considers
how ostensibly economic ancient discussions — of the household, the
agricultural field, but also the laboring body itself —were always
imbricated with the projects of defining religious, ethnic, and sexual
difference.  Pratima received her Ph.D. from the Religious Studies
Department at Yale University, where she wrote a dissertation titled
“Domestic Labor and Marital Obligations in the Ancient Jewish Household.”
She is currently the Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Duke Center for
Jewish Studies.

Contact Info:

Siobhan Verlezza (sverlezza at fordham.edu)

Contact Email:

jewishstudies at fordham.edu

URL:

https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1362/18/interior.aspx?sid=1362&gid=1&pgid=9161&cid=16660&bledit=1&dids=312

-- 
Co-Director
The Maintainers
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