Jewish Marital Captivity Sonja Cherry-Paul editor of A Theodore Dreiser

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Jewish Marital Captivity Sonja Cherry-Paul editor of A Theodore DreiserSolutions to divorce abuse in Jewish societies Jewish Marital Captivity centers on the experience of women encountering systemic disadvantage in rabbinic marriage and divorce throughout Jewish history and across the map of Jewish life. In rabbinic law, marriage is a unilateral act by the husband, making divorce, similarly, the husband's sole prerogative, in which his conscious will is also sacrosanct. Abuse necessarily follows, and has been the case