Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
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Introduction -- Women's Torah studies : the halachic infrastructure -- Fighting assimilation : women's education in eastern European orthodoxy -- Women's education and the learners' society : women's education in ḥaredi society -- Torah study for women in the new world : the American experience -- "Women shall encircle man" : women's Torah study in the teachings of R. Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson -- Satmar and women's education : education as a root cause of promiscuity -- Moderate orthodoxy and women's Torah study.