Deidre Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deidre Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deidre |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3557-0671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Legal and Societal Perils of Introducing the Concept of Anti-Palestinian Racism in Canada
Several civil society groups in Canada advocate for adopting the concept of Anti-Palestinian Racism ( apr ). However, there are significant flaws in both its concept and definition, as well as legal and societal risks in its adoption. apr seems more focused on advancing a political agenda and undermining the core identities of most Jews than addressing discrimination against Palestinians. This paper examines the legal and social implications of r…
A Canadian story of Jewish divorce: Listening to rabbis across denominations wrestle with egalitarianism and K'lal Yisrael
This ethnographic interview-based research (2016-2021) analyzes the narratives of a cohort of rabbis in Ottawa who share their experiences of Jewish divorce. Jewish religious divorce is gendered and asymmetrical where the husband gives the divorce to the passively receiving wife who may not herself initiate divorce. This project interrupts the ways in which Jewish divorce is primarily identified in terms of get abuse in the Orthodox world. The as…
Modern Jewish Thought and Jewish Feminist Thought: An Uncommon Conversation
Modern Jewish thought is that area of Jewish thought that emerges in response to the Jewish encounter with modernity. It spans the earliest contributions of modern Jewish philosophers and religious reformers in 19th-century Europe to contemporary thinkers from Jewish communities around the world today. Jewish feminist thought also stands out as a vital stream within modern Jewish thought. Although most histories and anthologies of modern Jewish t…
Disturbing Boundaries: Developing Jewish Feminist Ethics With Buber, Levinas and Fackenheim
This paper proposes an inclusivist, meta-denominational theoretical framework for Jewish feminist ethical thought by opening up a conversation between modern Jewish thought, Jewish feminism and feminist thought. Although the disciplinary narratives of modern Jewish philosophy and Jewish feminism have tended to be largely inattentive to each other, their shared critical engagement with Jewish thought, tradition, history and contemporary life, argu…
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Disturbing Boundaries: Developing Jewish Feminist Ethics With Buber, Levinas and Fackenheim
This paper proposes an inclusivist, meta-denominational theoretical framework for Jewish feminist ethical thought by opening up a conversation between modern Jewish thought, Jewish feminism and feminist thought. Although the disciplinary narratives of modern Jewish philosophy and Jewish feminism have tended to be largely inattentive to each other, their shared critical engagement with Jewish thought, tradition, history and contemporary life, argu…
Modern Jewish Thought and Jewish Feminist Thought: An Uncommon Conversation
Modern Jewish thought is that area of Jewish thought that emerges in response to the Jewish encounter with modernity. It spans the earliest contributions of modern Jewish philosophers and religious reformers in 19th-century Europe to contemporary thinkers from Jewish communities around the world today. Jewish feminist thought also stands out as a vital stream within modern Jewish thought. Although most histories and anthologies of modern Jewish t…
A Canadian story of Jewish divorce: Listening to rabbis across denominations wrestle with egalitarianism and K'lal Yisrael
This ethnographic interview-based research (2016-2021) analyzes the narratives of a cohort of rabbis in Ottawa who share their experiences of Jewish divorce. Jewish religious divorce is gendered and asymmetrical where the husband gives the divorce to the passively receiving wife who may not herself initiate divorce. This project interrupts the ways in which Jewish divorce is primarily identified in terms of get abuse in the Orthodox world. The as…
The Legal and Societal Perils of Introducing the Concept of Anti-Palestinian Racism in Canada
Several civil society groups in Canada advocate for adopting the concept of Anti-Palestinian Racism ( apr ). However, there are significant flaws in both its concept and definition, as well as legal and societal risks in its adoption. apr seems more focused on advancing a political agenda and undermining the core identities of most Jews than addressing discrimination against Palestinians. This paper examines the legal and social implications of r…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)