Tzniut, Halakha, and the Male Gaze
This essay was written in the context of this op ed in the New York Times. This accompanying source sheet provides a closer look at the sources.
Tova Hartman, in her chapter “Modesty and the Religious Male Gaze,” in Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism, discusses the topic of the male gaze, and how the culture around tzniut reinforces this – accepts it as a given – and the status of women as sex objects. The only difference between this approach and that of Western culture is whether the response