TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FEMINISM AND ORTHODOXY -- REPRESENTING ORTHODOXY -- THE ORTHODOX ROMANCE: VEILED COMPLAINT AND AMBIVALENCE EXTREME IN HANNA BAT SHAHAR -- YEHUDIT ROTEM'S CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING NOVELS -- REVALUING THE TRADITIONAL IN AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN'S WRITING -- POLITICS, NATIONALISM AND THE SECULAR-RELIGIOUS RIFT -- INCLUSIVITY AND TRANSFORMATION -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.