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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/16/2/206/814045/206stephan.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture Eve Krakowski Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018 350 pages. ISBN 9780691174983 Reviewed by TARA STEPHAN Eve Krakowski’s Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt artfully uses sources from the Cairo Geniza to reconstruct the crucial moment of girls’and women’s first marriage, a period that she defines as “adolescence.” This study is a refreshing reexamination of some of the ideas and arguments about medieval Jewish society that S. D. Goitein (1967–93) initially pre- sented in his monumental Mediterranean Society. For instance, Krakowski reinterprets Goitein’s conclusion that medieval Jewish families were composed of “cohesive patriarchal clans whose members lived together in extended households” (3). Using the concept of female adolescence, she reveals the importance of kin support for women and corrects previously held narratives about marriage, including the idea that there were preferences for cousin marriage and marrying female virgins. As Krakowski states in her introduction, “This book considers how such ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth- to thirteenth-century Islamic eastern Mediterranean, both as women and as Jews, and how two
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press
Published: Jul 1, 2020
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