Genesis: The Beginning of Desire by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, paperback edition

"...an extraordinary book. Not quite scholarship as such, nor exegesis, nor literary criticism or theology, it partakes of them all, filtering familiar texts through a richly intelligent and transforming sensibility." --The Jerusalem Report

Resistance and Accomodation: Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism by Tova Hartman, hardcover

"This book is an intellectual/analytical feast and a spiritual delight. Using feminist criticism and theory for deeper insights into the relationship of modern Orthodox tradition and women, Hartman comes up with fresh, surprising and varied models which critique and confirm the tradition and the  feminist critiques of tradition. Not many books have crisp, solid scholarhips; fewer have wisdom, This book has both."--Rabbi Irving Greenberg, President Jewish Life Nework/Steinhardt Foundation

(Both books are in English.)